Washington Bee

VOL. XIV.NO.48 What I Saw And Heard I met the old war governor, P. B. S. Pinchback, a few days ago and I was surprised to see him looking so well. He retains that dignified and aristocratic air that always commands respect. In speaking of politics the governor said that things look lively. He is not inclined to discuss at present the political outlook and neither would he give his opinion concerning candidates in 1908. He speaks well of the Wizard of Tuskegee. He thinks that he is the greatest man living and is doing more for the negro than any other living man. He thought that the silver anniversary recently held at Tuskegee was the greatest event in the history of any institution, white or black. The character of the men who attended has never been known to turn out in such large numbers, and indeed, said the Governor, the President of the United States is the only man that could draw such a crowd. He is a great admirer of the Wizard. Mr. A. F. Hilyer has just returned from Philadelphia. In speaking of the "Atonement" and its visit there, he said the press was of one opinion. He is highly elated over its success and the reception that the Philadelphia people gave him and the choral society. My genial friend Mr. Robert W. Thompkins has been quite sick at his home. He is one of the landmarks of Washington. Major C. A. Fleetwood continues to hold his own. He is just as vigorous as ever. His military carriage is just the same as of old. The members of the bar are anxious to see the new Police Court completed. Many of them are feeling the effects of the long tramp they are compelled to take daily. I don't want it understood that I have any feeling against Register J. W. Lyons. I wanted to correct the statements of Spectator, who doesn't seem to have a thorough knowledge of the personnel of the register's office. There are only two colored clerks in that office. One was there before Register Lyons was appointed and my information is that Deputy Register C. F. Adams is responsible for the appointment of Spectator, Mr. Thomas H. Clark. Several other worthy colored men applied for promotion, but the register, Mr. Lyons, never saw fit to recommend them when he had an opportunity. Lieut. Toomy, a brainy colored man who passed the civil service examination while a messenger in the register's office, was never recommended for a clerkship. White clerks were always preferable. The white clerks themselves were surprised to see no colored clerks promoted. I think it would be wise for Spectator to correct his figures as well as his former publication in the Guardian. I am an admirer of Spectator and am surprised to see him commit such a blunder. Mr. Vernon will be confirmed. There is nothing in the charges against him President Roosevelt was thoroughly convicted of that when he sent his name to the Senate. There is no man in the country that has the record Mr. Vernon has. His wife is a most accomplished lady and the best people in the West speak well of the coming register. He will be confirmed next week. Fairplay. HON. GEORGE ALEXANDER PEARRE. The Republicans of the Sixth District of Maryland are more than fortunate in having as their representative in Congress, Hon. George Axelander Pearre, who has made a record of which the nation is proud. Representative Pearre has appointed more Republicans, to office, and especially colored, than any Congressman in the State of Maryland. He is ready at all times to render aid to his constituents and he is not the man to turn you down on account of color or condition. There are but few men in the State of Maryland who have aided the colored Republicans and these men are the friends of Representative Pearre. This gentleman is allied to the old school of Republicans, who believe in defending human rights and having men appointed to office who are citizens of the State and county in which they live. The Republicans of the Sixth District should see that Mr. Pearre gets their votes for nomination and their solid support after nominated. No better man can be selected at this time to carry the Sixth Maryland District. Mr. Pearre has been more of an honor to the district than any man preceding him. He has done more and is doing more for his constituents and because of a few disgruntled politicians having been disappointed in getting what they wanted, the honest voters of the district are asked to join in with them to defeat his nomination. Has Mr. Pearre's record been of such a character to warrant his defeat? Has he been false to his constituents? Has he imposed greater burdens upon the people than they are able to carry? If he is not guilty of any of the offenses above, why should not he be renominated and elected? Information reaches The Bee that the small faction in Montgomery County is opposed to Mr. Pearre on personal grounds. Some time ago a communication was inadvertently published in this paper from one of the disgruntled members of the small faction in Montgomery County, which plainly showed that the men wanted offices and because they failed to get them the voters in Montgomery County, Md., are asked to defeat Mr. Pearre. The Republicans in the county have sent an article to this paper to the effect that they will not indorse the personal fight against him. This is the right position for the Republicans to assume. Why should they join in to defeat Mr. Pearre because other men have been appointed to office? There is every reason to believe that Mr. Pearre will be renominated and elected on his record alone, notwithstanding the opposition of the spoilsmen. Mr. Pearre, Republican, of Cumberland, Md., was born in that city July 16, 1860. He is a native Marylander to start off with. He is the son of Hon. George A. Pearre and Mary Worthington. He obtained his early education at private schools, Allegany County Academy, St. James College, University of West Virginia, and Princeton University. It is said that he was a bright and apt boy at school and quick to conceive and impart. He doesn't talk very much. He is a worker. You never know what he is doing till after it is done. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882, having graduated at the law school of Maryland University, of Baltimore: in active practice ever since. It was not long before he became popular with his constituents, who honored him by electing him to the State Senate by a majority of 400,'and served in the sessions of 1890 and 1892. Having made such a brilliant record in the State Sen- HON. GEORGE ALEXANDER PEARRE. ate, the Republicans nominated and elected him prosecuting attorney by a majority of 1,400, which office he held till he was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress in 1898. In that contest he received 18,887 votes to 14,372 for his opponent, C. T. Poffenberger, a plurality of 4,506, carrying all the counties in the district for the first time in its history; re-elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses, receiving 18,310 votes to 14,479 for R. C. Konneweg and 1,063 for J. C. Hopkins, Prohibitionist. Re-elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress. This distinguished young Republican has made the greatest record of any man that has ever represented the Sixth Maryland District, Democrat or Republican, and the constituents of Mr. Pearce have decided to unite in his nomination and election. Mr. Pearce is popular with the administration and influential in Congress. Wherever he goes he is treated with the greatest consideration. Certainly the Republican voters of the Sixth District should be glad to know that they have such a representative in Congress. There are men in Congress today who can't cross the doorstep of the Executive ManSION or any of the departments, but Hon. George Alexander Pearce is a welcome visitor wherever he goes. Brighton Beach Racing Association Races, July 11th to August 4th, October 1 to October6. At the recent earthquake at San Francisco there was no distinction between the rich and poor in regards to their sleeping quarters. (This goes to show the power of God.) In the Chinese quarters of San Francisco the recent events revealed that the Oriental's had places of different sorts several hundred feet under ground, where all manner of vice was practiced. There has just been introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman E. L. Taylor, of Ohio, a bill (H. R. No. 17,511) for the regulation of employment agencies in the District of Columbia. That some effective regulation is needed for the system of employment of servants, is acknowledged by everyone who has given it any degree of examination. There are lots of fake offices, dishonest and unreliable servants, dishonest and unreasonable employers. The offices which, it must be acknowledged, are not models in their methods, have to bear the brunt of the complaints, both from employers and servants. We admit that these offices, but abuse of a thing is no argument against a proper use, hence regulation is in order. The Taylor bill has some good points about it, chief among which are the increase in the license fee from $10 to $25, the exclusion of employment offices from living or bed rooms, investigation of refences, and the per centum plan for fees, collectable at end of first week, rather than prepayment. The objectionable features about the bill are as follows: HON. RE HON. REED SMOOT HON. REED SMOOT 1. The bond feature of $1,000. No private individual or bonding company will go a bond of $1,000 for less than $50, which is tantamount to a license fee of $75. It seems to me that the mere pausing of the license, together with other restrictions and penalties recited in the bill, and which are not here mentioned, are sufficient to make agents behave themselves. 2. The return of fees to employer and servant, under the conditions mentioned in the bill, is both impractical and unfair. Better let agents retain the fees and require them to "delliver the goods," as we would the hat or shoe man, subject to the prescribed penalties. 3. Any attempt to fix by law the price at which a man shall sell his stock or goods, as is done in the Taylor bill, is contrary to the spirit of our American free institutions. It is sumptuary law, a feature of legislation against which our wisest legislators and law-makers have declared from the foundation of our government. They have no more right to say what an employment agent shall change an employer for his services in securing him a servant, or a servant for securing a situation, than they have to say what a physician or lawyer shall charge for his services, or a hat dealer for his hats. The equity in the case would come about through the medium of competition. We approve and commend the per centum idea, but dispute the right by others to fix the rate. 4. The feature requiring agents to refund car fare paid out by servants while going to and from places to which they are sent in search of work, is condemned for the reason that it is open to much imposition and unfairness on the part of those mischievously disposed. Let us have some effective regulation, but alike in a spirit of justice to the employer, the servant and the middle Coming! WILLIAMS and WALKER "Abyssinia"!!! Convention Hall, April 30, May 1 & 2 THE TAYLOR BILL Editor The Bee: "THE ATONEMENT" AND THE S. COLERIDGE TAYLOR CHORAL SOCIETY. The long expected presentation of the "Atonement" by the S. Coleridge Taylor Choral Society was made Wednesday evening, May 18, at the Congregational Church, and needless to say will be looked back to in life by every music lover present as an epoch. There is no way to compare the "Atonement" with "Hawatha," the other production of the same author, which this society has made familiar to our ears, the music of the two is as absolutely unrelated as the subjects treated, and it would be difficult to conceive of music from human brains and heart that could be more completely the embodiment of each subject. In the Atonement Mr. Taylor fills the soul of every attentive listener, Christian or not, with an exaltation and reverence that is simply marvelous, but of which space will not allow more extended comment. The always splendid chorus rendered in this some of the best work it has even shown, in fact, its every appearance has evidenced a marked improvement upon each preceding. The Director, Prof. Dayton, has gained individually greatly S. in method, power, self-confidence and ease of manner, standing probably at the head of his calling in our race in this country, and so accustomed have his singers grown, that they now respond perfectly to every call he makes. A very decided and satisfactory improvement is noticeable in the shading of the music conforming more closely to the sentiment embodied in the words, which was before one of their weakest points. One of the best illustrations of this appeared in the chorale. "Father Omnipotent." The wonderful vitality of the voices is again shown in the freshness, full vigor and sustained power of the Finale. Of the soloists, in their order, Miss Novelto has a voice of much sweetness and purity, which she uses in admirable method. She is a charming little lady with a charming little voice, and with out the background of that splendid chorus would no doubt be very effective. Mr. Woodward was in fine voice, and gave a good account of himself in limited work that fell to his share, which however, he was good enough to supplement by joining heartily in the final chorus, as did all of the soloists over Mr. Burleigh. Mr. Burleigh as usual in his solo work fully satisfied the desires of his audience by his conception and rendering of his assignment. His grand outburst in the solo: "My God! My God! Why hast Thou forsaken me?" was one of the most thrilling passages of the evening. Miss Lola Johnson showed fine feeling and expression in her solo from a musical standpoint, but was a little obscure in her enunciation. Miss Lottie Wallace was pleasing in her role but it remains a puzzle to the majority of us why the assignment to her was made. The trio of these ladies was beautifully rendered, even though at times the first soprano would be blanketed for a measure or two. We still wait patiently and hopefully for the day when the musical committee will find a soprano to measure up to Mr. Taylor's solos. I would place Miss Europe, the pianiste, Mr. Charlton, the organist, and Mr. Layton, the conductor, each as now at the head of their respective callings, among our people, and the chorus as "second to none." There is still one voice in the chorus which was not noticeable generally, but in the fortissimo passage sounded like rattling a stick on fence palings. I could not definitely locate it from my seat, but it needs to be "twenty-three." Hiawatha will doubtless hold the lead in popularity as between the two, but to those who can enjoy a higher grade of music for music's sake, and to the reverent Christian, the "Atonement" will remain a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Nokomis. GOLDEN JUBILEE. The Fiftieth Anniversary and Golden Jubilee of Galbraith A. M. E. Church, 5th street, between L and M streets, M. W., Washington, D. C., concluded its exercises Monday evening the 16th inst. The exercises to say the least was a complete success. The public services were largely attended and the collections all that could be desired. The average from all sources was more than a $100 per week for more than seven weeks. Every department of the church is in splendid condition and the outlook for Galbraith Church was never so promising. It is said by many that Bishop Clinton's Easter sermon at Galbraith was one of the greatest efforts of his life. Bishop Clinton is rapidly becoming a foremost and most aggressive churchman of the times. The Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore Conference has made the most substantial progress under his administration in her history. Bishop Clinton is in full sympathy and actual contact with his men and all indications point to the fact that he will be retained upon this Episcopal District for the next six or eight years. Sunday, April 40th will be Denominational Day at Galbraith Church. Every member in the church is requested to contribute from fifty cents to a dollar. At eleven A. M. Dr. Jesse B. Calbert, presiding elder of the St. Louis District, will deliver the sermon. At night the pastor will preach. REV. CORROTHERS Rev. S. L. Corrothers, P. A. Wallace, W. H. Ricks, J. M. Washington, Miss Grace Addison and Miss Emma Wallace were the Zion representatives who attended the Washington District Conference and Sunday school Convention at Avondale, Pa., last week. There was a large attendance, among which were some of the chief leaders of the church, including Drs. M. R. Franklin, the General Steward of the Convention; J. F. Moland, Gen'l Manager of the Publishing House and Bishop B. W. Clinton. When the report of Galbraith A. M. E. Z. Church, of this city was read, the unparalleled success that had attended the labors of Rev. Corrothers created quite a discussion, at the conclusion of which Dr. B. J. Bolding of Baltimore, moved that the Conference endorse Rev. Corrothers for the Bishopic, which motion was seconded and put into effect by Dr. M. L. Glaylock of Harrisburg, Pa., and received the unanimous vote of the Conference. The Annual Session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference will meet at Harrisburg, Pa., May 16. Bishop Clinton will preside. Joe Gans and Jimmy Gardner of Lowell will be matched in a day or two to meet at Chelsea, Mass. The second Jefferson Davis, governor of Arkansas, having been nominated by the Democratic primary, will be elected to the United States Senate. He advocates lynching, etc. He also refused to dine with the President of the United States. Ireland will hold its first exposition in 50 years on Erin's soil at Dublin during the summer of 1907. There are 136,000 registered paupers in London, England. The Bee THE GREAT ADVERTISING MEDIUM TRY IT! Do you want reliable news? Do you want fearless 2-room adverts? Do you want super- trend Read and advertise in THE BEE! The advertising blotters of the Knoxville Engraving Co. are unique and show three of the company's principal departments. Mr. Andrew F. Hilyer was uniting in his efforts to make the rendition of the "Atonement" a success, and his efforts were signally crowned. Mrs. Brown, the mother of Miss H. Q. Brown and Mr. Jere Brown of Cleveland, Ohio, celebrated her 88th birthday anniversary Easter Sunday. She was given many tokens of esteem. Mr. G. F. Von Chinn, a graduate of Howard University is president of one of the best political organizations of today. It is known as the Illinois State Republican League. The first issue of the "Weekly Reporter," Chicago, Ill., was published last week. Its appearance is most pleasing and the matter contained is interesting and timely. J. Hockley Smiley is Editor and publisher. According to reports, the color line is drawn in Lynn, Mass. Some of the residents object to being neighborly with Mr. John F. Fox, who has bought an estate in a desirable section. The color of the skin is considered in more sections than one. The anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare was celebrated last Monday night at the Arlington Hotel, this city, by the students of the Hickman School of Acting. Senator Platt left Washington last Monday night for Owego, N. Y., to attend the funeral of his brother, Frederick E. Platt, which took place at the hime of the Platt's at Owego last Tuesday. Twenty-five girls who are boarders at the Christian Home for Working girls at Pittsburg, were taken sick early last Monday morning. It is thought that poison was introduced accidently into the food at dinner last Monday. Wilkesbarre, Pa, was visited with a heavy fall of spring snow last Monday morning. It is stated that Father Gapon, the former leader og St. Petersburg working men, was hanged by resolutions on April 10. Ambassador Reid while motoring one morning this week from his residence to London to attend the Derasse—wild wedding—ran over a fifteen-year old boy entering Luton on his bicycle. John Van Sawn, vice-president of the G. W. Dillingham Publishing Co. shot and killed himself this week at New York. Seventy-five horses were burned to death last Monday in a fire which destroyed the large barn of the Warman, Black, Chamberlin Company, at Indianapolis, Ind. Orders were issued this week to the employes of the local machine shops of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company at Pa, that during the suspension of mining the men will work only two weeks a month. Charles Olmstead, president of the Merchants Banking Company at Fostoria, Ohio, died suddenly in that city this week of heart disease. Secretary Taft delivered an address on "American Citizenship" at Yale University this week. Viscount Sinzo Aoki, the new Japanese ambassador to the United States, spent two hours at Chicago one day this week as a guest of the Union League Club. It is stated that Admiral Severa, of Madrid, who commanded the Spanish fleet at Santiago, has been appointed chief of the maritime district Ferrel. Fire totally destroyed the acid department of the Home Mixture Guano Company last week at Columbia, Ga. The loss is about $100,000. MeKINLEY'S INITIALS BY HIS OWN HAND. Simple Bit of Cordboard That Made Aulick Palmer United States Marshal. Aulick Palmer, United States Marshal for the District, today came into possession of a simple, plain piece of pasteboard which he prives very highly. It contains the autograph initials of the late President McKinley and is the instruction of the President to the Attorney General of the United States to nominate Mr. Palmer as marshal of the District. The card is in the handwriting of President McKinley and is as follows: "Executive Mansion, Washington. "Atty Gen.—Nominate Aulick Palmer, of the D. C., for marshal of the Dist. "WM.McK." The card was presented to Marshal Palmer today by Attorney Tracey L. Jeffords. The latter, however, declined to say how he came into possession of the highly prized souvenir. LAND FOR SETTLERS. SHOSHONE RESERVATION TO BE OPENED THIS SUMMER. More Than a Million Acres Will Be Turned Over to Homeseekers and Prospectors by Uncle Washington.—The opening of a partion of the Shoshone reservation in Wyoming, which is scheduled for some time this summer, promises to inaugurate a stumpede of prospectors as well as settlers into that region. Uncle Sam has thrown barriers around this reservation for many years and, notwithstanding the importunions of all classes of miners, has steadily refused to allow any explorations to be made. A few prospectors have ventured across the line, but were always driven back by watchful souts. Some of the prospectors in their brief stay secured specimens of minerals and the impression has now gone forth that portions of the ceded area are exceedingly rich in minerals of various kinds. Congress at the last session passed the necessary legislation to open more than a million acres of this reservation to settlement and exploration. The agricultural areas will be opened under the form adopted by the land office in opening the Sloux reservation in South Dakota, the selections being made by lottery. With a mean average of rainfall of about 13 inches a year, the climate is too arid for the raising of crops without irrigation, but a large amount of water in the two rivers is available for this use. By the construction of irrigation canals wide areas of the basin lands could be brought under cultivation, especially if the flood waters of the mountain slopes could be stored for use during the dry season. The greater part of the region is well adapted for grazing and this undoubtedly will be its principal use. Full two-thirds of the land be a fair growth of nutritious grasses, and water for stock is within reach, excepting in a few districts. In portions of the Owl Creek mountains granites and associated schists are exposed, containing gold and other ores, which may possibly occur in sufficient amount to be of economic importance, while in the southern end of the Shoshone range, which constitutes the northwestern corner of the ceded area, there may possibly be found a southern extension of the mineral veins of the Kirwin region. Coal deposits occur in the center of the ceded area, and, although probably they may not merit extensive working, they will afford a useful local supply. The only settlers now in the ceded area are a few Indians and white men who have married squaws, and the ranches of these persons are, widely scattered along the rivers and on the creeks near the foot of the mountains. DESCENDS STAIRS ON HEAD Remarkable Performance of Paris Acrobat on Wager with American. Paris.—The police here are accustomed to strange sights, especially at carnival time, but none of their previous experiences had prepared them for the spectacle presented on the steps of the opera house at eleven o'clock last night. With his feet in the air and his arms serenely folded, a gentleman was descending the broad stairs on his head. Bump! bump on every step, with painful precision, down he came. Arriving finally on the pavement of the Place de l'Opera, the accrobat, to the relief of the police, once more assumed the ordinary attitude. Clasping his aching head, he made for the nearest chemist. The acrobat, Franconi, explained to the policeman that his performance was the result of a wager with an American. That Awful Thirteen The Thirteen club of New York ate an evening meal in the Flatiron restaurant not long ago. Rudolph Mayers (count the letters) attended the feast as a waiter. He is 39 years old, which is three times 13. He waited on table No. 13, at which 13 diners had spread their napkins. On the way from the kitchen all the waiters were required to pass under a laddu. Mayers, laden with an order of oysters, 13 per plate, paused before passing under the fatal string of rungs. As he insulted, a serving man behind gave him a shove. He tripped against the ladder, spilling the oysters and bringing down the ascending contrivance which struck and fractured his skull. Bock Beer Insanity. "Dock beer insanity" made its annual appearance in the court for the insane at the detention hospital in Chicago the other day. Each year with the advent of bock beer in the saloons there is a sudden increase in the number of alcoholic insane patients, who attribute their troubles to an overindulgence in the seductive fluid. The other day ten of the 28 patients before Judge Staley were described as bock beer cases. Wild Swans at Clinton A flock of 13 wild swans, the first seen on the Mississippi river for years, alighted in an open place just above the bridge opposite Clinton. Ia., one day lately. The birds were a pretty sight, all being pure white in color, with long, arched necks. After spending some hours in the water without being disturbed, the flock took up its northward journey. The old river men say the flight of swans northward is an infallible sign of spring weather. Famous Old Landmark at Santa Monica Crumbles During Hainstorm. Santa Monica, Cal.—After having withstood the storms for generations, picturesque Arch rock, one of the historic landmarks of the beach above Port Los Angeles, has finally succumbed to the motion of the elements. The rainstorm of Saturday night proved its undoing. Sunday morning it was discovered that the natural arch that spanned the two columns through which the county road passed ad crumbled and fallen, blocking traffic. Arch rock was as old as the hills when the mission padres who preceded Father Junilpero Serra to this day first wended their way up the coast in search for an easy route to the Spanish missions situated further north. It had no historic significance other than its natural beauty and romantic surroundings. It was a familiar landmark to all tourists, and tally-ho parties to this spot were included in all itineraries of the sightseers. Indians and Mexicans who lived in this section early in the century have handed down its traditions as they received them from their sires and grandstores, and according to their stories the rock was formerly much larger than it is now and when the sea was at its height the waters rushing through the cave would roar and reecho as the mad breakers would dash against the sides of the tunnel, Year by year it has wasted away. The storm of last March hastened the disintegration, and the arch was further weakened a year ago when the road builders tore away the loose stones that threatened to fall upon passersby. PIPE COLD AIR FROM WELLS Helena, Mont.-The town of Thompson Falls, in Missoula county, has a strange system of cold storage. In the hottest days in summer it is possible to keep living rooms at a temperature of 65 degrees, and butter, eggs and meat are kept cool and fresh without the least trouble. The best part of the cold storage system is that it costs absolutely nothing after the plant has been installed. Thompson Falls has a large number of wells that furnish cold, fresh air, which rushes upward all summer long. The wells are dog for water, but the supply of cold air is fully as important The wells of Thompson Falls are a little more than 80 feet in depth. The water veins are found in a gravel formation and are doubtless feel by the mountain snows at some distant place. The gravel is porous enough to admit of a freely moving current of air, which during the summer time rushes upward in currents strong enough to snuff out a match held over the wells. The utility of the cool air currents was first observed in 1861, when the Thompson Falls Mercantile company used the cool air to keep butter, eggs and meat in large quantities. The air can be piped in summer to rooms of houses. The wells are covered over tightly at the top, and large pipes tap the current a few feet below the surface of the ground. These pipes conduct the air to different rooms in nearby buildings. For cold storage plants, a house is built above the well and the air rushes upward continuously, keeping the temperature at an unvarying point. ENGLAND'S VAST INSURANCE Home Companies Close, Year--with Balances That Are Tre- mendous. London.—The people of the British islands are now insured by 96 companies to the enormous total of £141,379,726 ($4,705,398,630), and this does not include the figures of the colonial and foreign companies. The blue book which annually appears on this subject, has just been published. Premiums were paid last year to the amount of £25,644,141 ($178,220,705), and the year's claims came to £22,122,435 ($110,612,175), there being an increase under the latter head of £1,156,742 ($5,633,710). The companies closed the year with balances amounting in the aggregate to £317,088,943 ($1,585,444,715). Of this sum they now have almost £36,000,000 ($180,000,000) invested in land, house property and ground rents. Dogs Devoured Church. From the loneliest mission station in the world, on an island 700 yards broad in the remote arctic regions north of Labrador, Rev. E. J. Peck has reached England after a perilous voyage in a 50-ton schooner. The missionary's first church at Blackwell's island, Baffin Land, was made of seal skins, but met with an untimely fate, being completely devoured by Esquimaux dogs. In spite of palvations Mr. Peck and his colleague, Mr. Billy, gave regular teaching to the neighboring Esquimaux and translated the New Testament and Genesis into Baffin Land dialect. Business Honesty. "And now, my son," said the bank manager, "on this, the threshold of your business life, I desire to impress one thought upon you. Honesty, ever and always, is the policy that is best." "Yes, father," said the young man. "And, by the way," appended the graybeard, "I would urge you to read up a little common law. It will amaze you to find how many things you can do in a business way and still be nonest." "It-t-Bits." The Revolutionary Programme Is Still the Paralysis of Admirationtative Machinery from Within. St. Petersburg.-The uselessness of expecting that the meeting of Russia's first parliament on May 10 will in any way abate the internal struggle is now accepted by everyone. The dire of revolution is burning everywhere continuously, but it has not by a long way burned out or smoked out the government. Far distant, too, is the day when the army will make common cause with the revolutionaries. The present slaughter of minor government employees in obedience to the orders of Count Witte and Minister of the Interior Durnovo is a salient feature. Thirteen postal telegraphers at Tchita who shared in the general strike in October have just been sentenced to death. The revolutionaries treat this and similar cases merely as a skirmish lost in war. Against the existing system the revolutionary programme is still the paralysis of the administrative machinery from within. Street lighting and other disorders are not part of their scheme. The leaders are not likely to call a general strike at present because the installation of the Duma as part of the fabric of government offers some hope of wrecking the whole system. Dhilril Shipoff, the leader of the moderate conservatives, makes the following estimate of what the Duma will amount to when it meets. "The majority will be peasants, who will arrive quite unprepared for the mode of procedure. Many will not even understand the words used, which will be of the official kind and wholly strong to them. The peasants will maintain that the agrarian question is their paramount interest and will refuse to trust its solution to anyone outside of their own class. But it is just the agrarian question which is bound to meet from the beginning insurmountable difficulties which will serve the revolutionary propaganda." Shipoff holds strongly that the double and triple system of election makes the people regard the whole procedure as intentionally complicated and obstructive. He emphatically denies that the new council of state will serve in any sense the purpose of upper chambers and senates elsewhere. He maintains that it will be almost the same bureaucratic wall which exists now as an enemy of public life. He is certain from long experience (he was chairman of the Moscow provincial zemstvo for many years) that the council of the empire and the Duma are foredoomed to a disagreeable struggle. In as much as no decision of the Duma can be brought direct to the emperor's notice. The council, in its new form, not only dismishes the authority of the Duma but concurrently reduces the provocative of the emperor The majority of those who have analyzed the constitution of the chambers agree with Shipoff that they have been so drafted under Count White's guidance as to strengthen the bureaucracy at the expense of both the ear and the people. NATURE'S PACKING PLANT. Salton Sea in Southern California Freezes, Salt Gathers and There It Is. Washington.—The recent extreme cold weather in the southwestern part of the United States has produced one extremely curious result: The Salton sea, which is produced by the overflow of the Colorado river into a depression in southern California, has been frozen over to a great depth. The Southern Pacific railroad, which has been greatly embarrassed by the flooding of its tracks, occasioned by the rising of the water, has moved its tracks to the ice, and is now running over the surface. The water of the lake being salt, it has, in freezing, deposited upon the surface, quantities of salt, which, by the action of the desert winds, has collected in windrows upon the ice. This has given rise to a new industry, or rather to the revival of an old industry. Thousands of cattle have been driven to this neighborhood from the great ranges to the north and south, and the business of slaughtering and meat packing is being carried on upon an enormous scale, the salt and ice for the purpose being right at hand. How long this will last is of course problematical. In the meantime the good people of Imperial on the sea are greatly enjoying their skating, a pastime which they have not enjoyed since the founding of the town until this date. Oldest Missourian. Francis K. Saugrain, the oldest native born in the Indiana purchase, celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of 17: birth a few days ago at his home in Sedalia, Mo. Mr. Saugrain is the son of Dr. Anton Francois Saugrain, the friend of Benjamin Franklin and the "pioneer scientist of the Mississippi," latter. The congenialian was born at the Saugrain home in St. Louis 190 years ago. Ice from Mont Blanc Glacier A company has been ordered to cut into the Mont Blanc glacier in Switzerland at a height of 1,000 feet. The ice is mined with dynamite and the blocks are cut into cubes and sent into the valley by a narrow gauge railway. There they are cleaned and then sent by train to southern France. Preparations for Gorgeous Reception of Princess Ena Into Her New Realm. Madrid.—All the details of Princess Ena's solemn entry into Spain next June, on the occasion of her marriage to King Alfonso, have been arranged. The future Spanish queen will cross the northern frontier at Irun, where the troops will accord her a royal salute and a special delegation from the king will receive her with magnificent ceremonial. At the station she will be met also by the general-in-chief of the Spanish army, the governor of the province of Gulpuzcoa, the military commander of Irun and all the local authorities. The presentations will be made by the British ambassador to Spain, escorted by all the personnel of the embassy, special train, composed exclusively of royal salon cars, will then take the princess to the palace of El Pardo, about ten miles from Madrid. As there is no railway station at this point, it has been arranged to erect a special pavilion in the park of the Casa de Campo, in which the future queen will be met by the king, the dowager queen, the princess of Austria and the infants and by all the members of the cabinet on her arrival. The party will escort the princess and her mother to the palace, where the princess will receive the official visits of the authorities. The trousseau of the future queen will be exposed to public view in Madrid, probably in the senate palace, and every one of the populace will have the right to gaze upon all the garments and jewels of the royal bride. On the morning of the wedding the princess will go to the capital incognito and don the wedding gown. The king, on horseback, will escort her to the gates, and when the princess is ready a gala concerge will take her to the church for the marriage ceremony. The princess will not be allowed to preserve the wedding gown, but will send it to the sanctuary of Atocha, where it will, adorn the virgin statue until another court bride comes to Spain. JUNK DEALER'S REVENGE. "Spite" Tenement House in Yonkers, N. Y. Shows His Malicious Cunning. New York.—Yonkers residents living near St. Andrew's Memorial church are much exercised over the erection of a tenement house for Italians by James Callahan, a junkman, within 50 feet of their church and in the midst of a number of private houses. The new house is to contain 54 apartments of three rooms each, and Callahan has advertised that only Italian and negro families need apply. He has erected two flag poles on the house, from which the Italian flag will float, and says that he will decorate the house with the advertisements of department stores. Callahan at one time kept a junk shop near by. The neighbors filed a protest with the board of health, and finally bought the property occupied by the junk shop at an exorbitant price. Callahan threatened punishment. At last he hit upon the plan of a tenement house and prepared to build it on the plot of ground occupied by his own cozy home. The neighbors did not think he was serious when the foundations were dug and the plans filed with the buildings department. Then several offers were made to him for the property, but he put his price so high that it would have been a veritable gold mine had he received it. He has now finished the building and is preparing to rent it. The neighbors are nursing their wrath, and are preparing to erect a line of high fence around his property, hoping to shut Callahan up in a sort of box and keep him there until he comes to terms. Philadelphia.—Darby, has produced a rival to "Jack the Kisser." "Kitty the Kisser," the police call her, and those who saw her before Magistrate Kochersperger in Central police court wondered why a lawyer, who caused her-arrest for saluting him affectionately in the street, objected. Katherine Jordan, she calls herself, and despite her 20 years, is pretty and dresses stylishly. If Kitty stayed in Darby all might be well, but she ventured into Walnut street, east of Broad. The lawyer was greatly agitated and Bisheveled when he ran up to Policeman Curtis and explained that a young woman was kissing every man she met. "I had to use force to get away from her," he declared. An hour later Curtis saw Miss Jordan embrace and kiss a youth at Tenth and Walnut streets, who was astonished and ran away. An old man was next embraced, and he seemed to enjoy it. He then arrested her. She pleaded hard, and was discharged on her promise to be good in the future. Sculptress Wins. Miss Evelyn B. Longman, the sculptor whose figure of "Victory" in Festival hall at the St. Louis fair first gained her first public attention, has won by unanimous vote in the competition for the bronze entrance doors of the chapel at the United States Naval academy at Annapolis over 28 sculptors. She will make about $6,000 out of it. SCHOOL DILDREN ENCOURAGED IN SAVING HABIT. Kansas City, Mo.—Thousands of girls and boys in the public schools of Kansas City are saving money. In the last six years they have deposited in the Missouri Savings bank, where school accounts are kept, a total of $75,000. Of this amount $57,000 has been withdrawn leaving $18,000 to the credit of school children. The first suggestion that school children begin systematically to save stray pennies and nickels came from the W. C. T. U. six years ago. The result was that the Missouri Savings bank offered to take these accounts, to pay two per cent, interest on them and to deposit with the board of education as security for the savings of school children Kansas City school bonds to the amount of the savings, whatever that should be. In addition at the suggestion of W. S. Webb, the cashier of this bank, $20 in cash was offered in prizes to be paid to the three school rooms having each year the largest number of savings accounts. These prizes are awarded April 15 each year b, a committee appointed by J. M. Greenwood, superintendent of schools. The money is divided into three prizes, $25 being paid to the room having the largest number of pupils who are saving, $15 to the room having the room having the next highest number and $10 to the third. Recently the bank asked the board of education to allow the substitution of government bonds for Kansas City school bonds as security. The savings on school children range all the way in amount from $0 cents to $500. The largest single deposit, strange as it may seem, does not belong to the child of rich parents, but to three little folks who are children of the keeper of a small second hand store. The deposit of these children is several hundred dollars, larger than any other. "What do the children do with their money?" was asked of W. S. Webb, the cashier of the bank. "Their accounts are up and down," he replied. "I cannot begin to tell of the many different uses to which some of them have put their money after saving carefully for many months. I remember, however, the case of one little fellow who had saved $500 and bought a newspaper route. When he told me what he wanted to do with his money, I began to wonder whether he wasn't paying too much for the route. Parents sometimes use the money which their children have accumulated. Strange, though, isn't it, that the boys and girls who are saving the most money are the sons and daughters of poor parents. The saving habit is not hard to acquire and when once formed is easy to maintain." JOY FOR LITTLE PAPPOOSES Muskogee, I. T—If the sehate and house pass the Curtis Indian bill as reported by the conferreres there will be "something doing" in Indian Territory. The bill provides that all children who have not been enrolled and who 'were living at that time, shall be admitted to the rolls and given allotments. Acting Commissioner Beall stated that as closely as it could be approximated 12,000 babits under the bill will be admitted to the rolls. The task of enrolling and allotting these tables will require an additional force of nearly 100 men on the Dawson commission. There will be ten or 12 head parties put out among the Indians for the purpose of finding and enrolling these bables. These field parties will have lots of hard work to do when it comes to rounding up full-blooded Indians and getting data on the number of bables born prior to March 4. The removal of restrictions from Indian lands will practically knock out the land sales division at the Indian agency. SITS AMONG PEERESSES. Audacious Act of an Unknown American Woman in House of Lords. London.—A mysterious American, whom no one appears to be able to trace, made a determined and partly successful effort to pass herself off as a peeress and enter the peeresses' gallery in the house of lords the other night during an interesting debate. She followed the, dutiness of Marlborough so closely that the officials thought she must be with her. When challenged for her name she mumbled Lady Something and said she was with the duches. The latter, who is still slightly deaf, did not hear the conversation, and so the mysterious American actually sat down among the peeresses. But not for long. The other women began to discuss her, and finally an official was sent for who questioned the stranger closely. The American calmly said: "Well, I've won that bet, anyway," and was shown out rather unceremoniously. London "Hen Parties." Smart society in London has taken to "hen parties," having adopted an idea long in vogue in this country. Luncheons and dinners are being given "for women only" and the guests seem to find vast amusement in the Adamless Eden. London.—Three women, accomplished by a man, calmly engaged and occupied the smoking carriage on the American Steamer Express from Boston station to Liverpool the other day. The incident was made use of to emphasize the startling revelations of the extent to which smoking has played the feminine heart of England. Harper's smoking among women was popularly regarded as a bad conduct, certain exclusive circles in society. It is a serious taint in the fashionable world that all alike are addicted to the seductive tobacco. The women constantly growing longer in the smoking in public. This is obvious to all who whist the same restaurants and cafes, when smoking woman has become theception instead of the rule at Railway men say that women actually smoke in their reserved compartments on long journeys. Servers in large households report that tresses are addicted to smoking. Fragrant nicotine accessories are often appear at all women's gatherings. It is also alleged that the man mastered both men and women servants, and that society members who have large establishments had necessary to provide for their help in saloons, so as to avoid rebellion among males, coachmen, footmen and erriller frankles. Lady Marjorie Wilson, while avoiding the subject of smoking, says that the servants in the great household establishments of England have come somewhat imperious, and that a sort of servants' peerage must be maintained, such houses employing more persons and a greater variety of attendants than they need, simply to provide the kind of life which the servants demand. Smoking by women is further attested by the appearance of women cigarette holders, boxes, and match safes of gold, silver, platinum and other metals, often studded with jewels. WASHERWOMAN AN AUTOIST Michigan Woman Enjoys Riding About the Country on Battle Creek, Mich.—Mrs. Christian K. Huber, a Battle Creek washerwoman, who rides in an automobile purchased with money she earns over the tub, is the most conspicuous motor enthusiast in the city. Mrs. Huber does from 18 to 21 family washings a week, and makes about $25 in six days. She is a typical German woman, saving and respecting the community in which she lives. For 18 years she has taken in washing, caring for five children and giving them a commendable education. She owns the house in which she lives, another house which she cents, and a farm. Besides this she had aside $1,000 with which she bought her car When Sunday comes Mrs Huber enjoys herself immensely riding through the country in her automobile. She says she forgets her home care and enjoys the woods and the green fields. Then on Monday morning she makes the pounds" with her machine, catering the washings. She uses the machine also to deliver the clean clothes. Mrs. Huber's house is modern and is better than the homes of many persons who earn large salaries. "This automobile," she said, "is the only recreation and comfort I have. Way have I not the same right to own us as a wealthy person." SOLDIERS SENT TO GIRLS The German Emperor Provides Partners for Young Women to Dance With. Crefeld, Germany.—When Emperor William visited Crefeld in 1908 a group of girls complained to his majesty that they had no dancing partners and begged him to send a regiment of cavalry. The emperor promised to do so and a regiment of hussars arrived here from Duessefort and with it came the emperor, who had decided to take part in the regiment's reception. The young women of the city enthusiastically acclaimed the soldiers and handed the staff officers heaps of floral offerings for his majesty. The latter, replying to the mayor's speech of welcome, said: "I have kept my word. To-day I have given the love its garrison and the young ladies their partners." The emperor's remarks were crossed with cheers. The city, which is the center of the silk and velvet industry, was gently decorated for the occasion, a mile of the principal streets being hung with decorations of velvet and silk. Since the emperor made his promise to the young women at Creufeld in 1922 the reichstag appropriated the sum of money necessary to erect permanent barracks here, which have been constructed for the accommodation of a regiment of cavalry. old City Servant Enoch Howlett, city paymaster and one of the oldest public servants of Cambridge, Mass., has just returned to his post at the city hall after a ten days' absence caused by illness. He was 80 years old March 22 and it worries him considerably to have been forced to spend his eighteenth birthday at home instead of in the city's service. a MAUVE DISCOVERED BY HIM I$ HOW A Wi WHITRIDGE NAMED. | AMBULANCE DOGS. if t Scientific Men in England to Cele- \ew Yorker Selected a8 Special Am- . ‘This Government to Use Canines in | , — bratein Hauer ot Dr WH. |! Dassador at King Alfonso’s J Sees the Hospital Service of a H — * |. t. coopwnx ELECTED TO er | waexe FEMININE VISITORS TO |* hermy: OF j i , yEBSONALITY AND HISTOR’ London.—Among the romances of RAPHICAL Washington.—President Roosevelt 1S SIT. —w - LEADER OF ZION'S REVOLT, science few appeal more strongly to| GPOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. [1.5 just announced the appotmtment | HOUSE OF Common! s [arn to tne Rot Gee seine at toe 7 the Imagination than the discovery, 30 —- of Frederick W. Whitridge, of New Seth Xaleer’s army, “Fritz,” a preity black- years ago, by Dr. W. H. Perkin, when Is Oniy 28 Ye Op- | York, as special ambassador to rep- | Latest Effort to Have the Barrier Re- | soa white setter, bh: to the 1s a Booster, and Has Been a Preacher |. youth of 18, which started the great Bere Of the Fe ee Onno | resent the United States at the wed: | moved Proves Unavalling—Inter- | Yotted States to’ tench American doce and Eeligious Worker Since coal tar industries that now absorb ia Privileges Eajered ea ‘on | ding of the king of Spain. “| esting History of How Gallery Shee Gaetlnee UR ee tee : He Was Siztecs Years | many millions of dollars of capital tts: Mass wrens: _ Frederick Wallingford ‘Whitridge {3 | Came to Be Established. } ported by Col. J. W. Hardie- recently Guicero—The imagination which ercinntes Is always succeeded by the etter of fact management, if ruin Is fe be averted. The ousting of John Aesander Dowle and the inauguration @f Wilber Glenn Voliva in Zion City fe ap exemplification of the rule, © ‘Tbe two men contrast absolutely— parccally, temperamentally, mentally. Tre cauberant Dowie, massive in fsme, redundant in speech, magnet- x and dominant in personality, en- qeloprd and swept away by the power @ his own visions, recognized fn bis ements of Windom and Judgment, in die eecret communings In his closet, tat in the young dinciple Voliva ex- feed the sanity, the sense, the pru- deoce, the righteous and sure faculty thecd would most avail Zion when the interne of ts founder was with- eave Seare. pale, ascetic, cool, intelligent, wmffected by dreams, resolute to ac rompiish the task immediately under th eye, Veltva {6 no conqueror to fosnd communitics, to convert the sorld, to rain riches in Mexico, and epinteal dominion in the Islands of the ea. He could never Invent the pervantry. the Hebrale ceremony, the qrieatal splendor. But he can and he - sill pot the business of Zion upon a eepstantual footing. He can organize, $+ co eliminate waste, he can prac- ‘tee ecynomy. In a word, he can trans- term a strugeling, half bankrupt reemunity inte a thriving, prosperous, well to do American municipality, Voliva x 36 years old. His hair ts Mack Hix eyes are deep set, shrewd, tart and plereing. His shallow cheek f the aesthetic’s, bis thin, close-set ge are the disciplinarian’s, not only ef others, but of his own spirit. He wate hut two meals a day, frequently = ww E { & Be fe tka \ i ce Hc ded aie es i BS y = . |. ! Pome — ae <a ie al ee ae ; ie” Z ~ ' WIN GLENS. VOLIVA, tieszei casocerofion Who Has Means Sel zal spect ot ance ibe Ha: fais owe. nimetimes not at all. He slether himself in white tle, frock eet for vit waistcoat. He never emilee not because he 1s oppressed by Me op dienits, but because he sees to orasion for mirth. He does not ‘Mempt to impress his visitor. , .Noliva an Annerican, a Hooster. Ye x so entirely an American that fe 6 fenorant of what 1s his racial fuck, He hos heen beard to ray that fe fame. hts pecullar name may be Frefch tat he doesn't know. The family life af Voliva has been Sled with romance. He received his seanon in Newton, Ind, where he ‘t torn, in 187”. When only 16 Sears old he preached every Sunday fa chart nt Linden, Ind., while he ana student at Miron college. White at colle he met Miss Mollie Stevie dancer ot a physician of Pal- “2 Inl- who also was a student thee Ir Ik1. after his graduation, be marred Mise Steele. He and his se wed to Irvington, Ind.. where Tr beth entered Butler college to retinue thelr studies. While - there Schild war bosn to them. Four sears fer tues went to Hiram college, She, t continue their studies, While they were there the child died. In ism, Dr Voliva became associ: Sed ath Dowie’s church. In Febru: ‘77 of that year, Ruth, the child shown im the pcture. was born. A few ‘weths later be went to Cincinnatl, Shere he remained six months, and in Gaoter 1601 he went to Australia, etter winx ordained as an overseer. De. Volta returned from Australia ‘take charge of affairs at Zion City 2 few kooks avo, = Largest Life Policy. The most heavily insured man in the orld fs probubly Mr. L¢Rodman Wana- maker, of Phil.idelphla, who tarries $2,- 9.200 tc the Mutual, in addition to In- ‘taraace tn other companies, Mr. Wana- Beker first took out his insurance in the Metual. amounting to $200,000, at the wot M At AGhe increased {t.by two Additions pottcies of $160,000 and $500,- om rive Sears later, at 41, he took two Maina! pulicwes, one at $1,000,000 and te other of $200,600. This makes his (2! mearance in the company $2,000,- Such shen he pays a yearly premium MM20—World’s Work Same Old Story. Mts ‘smmth—Ob, dear, Fm coniplete- b vers out? {was up more than half ‘Be wont with a toothache. Mn Jones—That's too bad. Did you % to the dentist this morning? wt”. not It was my husbagd’s Nec that ached.—Chicago Dally Xexe, MAUVE DISCOVERED BY HIM Scientific Men in England to Cele brate in Honor of Dr. W.H. |’ Perkin. ‘ London.—Among the romances of sclenee few appeal more strongly to the !magination than the discovery, 50 years ago, by Dr. W. H. Perkin, when @ youth of 18, which started the great coal tar industries that now absorb many millions of dollars of capital and afford a livelihood to thousands. Unitke many inventors who have mude vast fortanes for others, Dr. Perkin Teaped a substantial reward from his discovery. He fs still Hving, hale and hearty, nappy and prosperous. He soon Will celebrate his _sixty-elgitth brithday anniversary. To commer- orate the occasion and the Jubilee of aniline dyes, he 1s Jo be presented with his portrait in ofls; a marble bust 4s to be made of him for the Chemical society, and a fund fs to be established, De if See Wd, i, ka. (a Si Tate eae IBY: 7 \ Ag fi iif i Ko ee . DR. W. 1. PERKINS, (He Discovered the Process of Mukine ‘Dyes Fifty Years Azo) to be known as the Perkin research fund, for the promotion of chemical research, Many of the most famous sctentific men In England have taken the matter in hand, Dr. Perkin's tather was a builder dnd wished his son to be an architect, but the Iad wanted to go in for chem- istry, and, fortunately, his father-let him have his opn way. When 15 years old he entered the Royal Col lege of Chemistry, and made such rapid headway there that two years later he was appointed assistant to Prof. Hoffman, who had charge of the college. One day the professor sug- gested to Lim that he should endeavor to produce quinine by artificial means He failed, but his eaperiments led him to .reat sulphate of aniline, a product resulting from the distillation of coal tar, with yellow potash bichro- mate, and thus he obtained the dye stuff called mauve. For many years after its discovery mauve pervaded the ribbons of clv- flized womanhood, and under the rames of Mac and hellotrope is stil recognizable among the latest trf- umphs of the print works and the Jooms, It {s still the favorite color of Queen Alexandra, But its. chief ‘utle to distinction is that it was the ‘first of the long seri¢s of coal tar colors, more than 190’ in number, anit rivaling the hues of the rainbow, whieh have utterly revolutionized the dyeing trade. Dr. Perkin patented his process, and with his futher and broth- er established works near Harrow. NEW GERMAN LEADER. Prince Hohtnlohe-Langenburg May Be Made Chancellor in Von : Buelow's Place. Berlin.—The advanced age of Count Von Buelow, chancellor of the German empire, coupled with opposition in some quarters to his policy, makes it certain that before long he will retiro from office. and it 1s probable that Prince Hohentohe-langenburg will be his successor, The latter was until a year ago regent of the Duchy of Saxe- Coburg an Gotha. He was , born September 13, 1863, and-1896 married Princess Alexandra, daughter of the \ e il a. a a Ae _ ee S c 7 aaa < fas pale: ps PRINCE HOMENLOIE-LANGE NBL RG. (The Probable New Chancellor of the Ger- man Empire) late Duke Alfred (Duke of Edinburgh) of SaxeCoburzGotba, and nlece of King Edward of England. In 1897 she prince was houored with the British decoration of Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. His full name and Uutle are His Serene Hirbness Exnest William Frederic Charles Maxmillan. Heredi- tary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. The alleged diplomatic fallure of Count von Buelow in the Moroccan ‘conference and the miscarriage of [colonial affairs will, it is belleved, tead to his retirement. + | Suspend Judgment, | A Chicago woman chose a cell in a police station rather than go with her ‘husband. We will have to suspend udement until we see the husband — Chicago Journal. H. L. GOODWIN ELECTED TO | GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. We Is Oniy 28 Years of Age—The Ob- fect of the Famous Organization | end Privileges Enjoyed by Its Many Members. Kansas City, Mo.—There are three members of the Royal Geographical soclety in this city. They are Dr. Edwin R. Heath of Kansas City, Kas., Col. J, Gardiner Stowe, formerly Unit- ed States consul general in Capetown, South Africa, and H. Llewellyn Good- win, Mr. Goodwin has just been elect- ed a member of the famous old organ- tration on the recommendation of Gol. Stowe. There are only six hon- orary members of the Royal Geo- sraphical society in the United States. ‘Dr, Heath of Kansas City, Kas,, {s one of the siz. In the whole United States ‘there are not more than 75 Fellows of the soctety, and all were elected tn Tecognition of something, scientific at- tainments, explorations or fame of one Kind or another. Mr. Goodwin, the Jatest addition to the society's ranks, Is only 28 years old, He was formerly a department manager for Swift & Co., paekers, but is now general west- sn manager for a scale manufacturing company. He was bom in Burling- ton, Kan. Mr. Goodwin is possessed of unusual educational qualifications, particularly in mathematica Col. Stowe had known him many years and admired his business energy. Under the rules of the’ Royal Geographical foclety a fellow may, after a year's membership, propose the name of an- other for the xame honor. ‘The Royal Geograntical society was founded {n 1830 for the advancement of geographical science. It received 3 royal charter of incorporation in pee It started with $6 members Today it bas 4,315 In all parts of the world. Nearly afl these members are noted In some capacity. They Tepresent, the arts, the sclences, the armies and navies of many nations; aN ths ail irk h PS \é y i H, LLEWCLLYN GOODWIN, ee Soctety.) =. . kings and princes; professional men whose names are known everywhere. There are soores of members with titles enough to tire most people and from five to 20 letters tacked on the end of thelr namex. Tile majesty, the king of England, is a patron of the society, and his royal highness, the ‘prince of Wales, vice patron. Rt. Hon. Sir George Taubman Goldie, K. C. M. G, F.R.S.. D. CL. LL. D.. and oth- er things, Is president. ‘The Royal Geographical society, to be absolutely correct about it, can trace its beginning back to 1555, when the first organized geographical work was undertaken. Travelers began then to write books telling what they had seen in their wanderings. The “Royal society" was founded by some of ‘these travelers. The African as- soctation was organized In 1788 to pro. mote the exploration of the Dark Con- tinent. The Raleigh Dining club ame Into existence In February, 1827. These three organizations were merged in 1830 Into the trust now known as the Royal Geographical society. So that H. Llewellyn Goodwin, in being elected to £0 distinguished a body of such anclent Hneage, may reasonably be pardoned if he give evidence of gratification. A m mber of the Royal Geograpb- ical Fa tety bas advantages over ordi- nary sravellng mortals, If he wishes to ¥ alt some out of the way quarter of ue globe, about which no one seems to know anything, he may write to the secretary in London, or visit the “house” If he chances t be over that way, and find out all about it in short order. If bis mission shall ap- pear to be particularly praiseworthy, the society will put up money to push ft along and may even Jend him In- struments if he needs them, and an outfit, And when the explorer re turns, if he ever does, the society will hold an extraordinary meeting with much solemnity and listen to his story. The collection of maps and books on travel in the sordety’s rooms Js not excelled anys here. Pulpwood in 1905, The-returas from 139 firms, con- trolling 232 pulp-mills, give over 3,- 000,000 cords as the total amount of wood used last year., The wood was divided among the Farious processes as follows: Sulpbite, 1,538,000 cords; soda, 410,000 cords; ground wood, 1, 068,00 cords. The total pulp produe- tlon by all processes by the firms re- porting was 1,993.00) tons, ~According to the census of 1999, the consuinption of pulpwond was then 1,986,310 cords, 50 that there bos heen un {ocrease of over 5 per cent. in the last six years, This demonstrares, In a string man- ner, the drain azcn the forests caused by the pulp Industry. Pe WHITRIDGE NAMED. Rew Yorker Selected as Special Am- —-bassador at King Alfonso’s ‘Wedding. ‘Washington.—President Roosevelt has just announced the appointment of Frederick W. Whitridge, of New York, as special ambassador to rep- resent the United States at the wed- ding of the king of Spain. Frederick Wallingford Whitridge {s a lawyer with offices at.No. 59 Wall street, and {s also a director In several companies. He bas a home at No. 16 Fast Eleventh street, where he bas lived for nearly 25 years. Mr. Whitridge has accepted the ap- pointment as special ambassador. Al- though he has travelled extensively, he bas never been in ‘Spain. “The one country in Europe, I might say,” he remarked, “that I bave not visited. I have often thought of see- ii ’ ie a a aa a ie a f. ml R i % rm Pm . q od, . ‘ ae iy 8 \Rd f oO FREDERICK W. WHITRIDGE. (He Will Attend Wedding of King Alfonso of Spain as Our Epecial Representative.) ing Spain, but other countries seemed to have a strongen attraetion for the time.” ‘Mr. Whitridge has a country estate In the Highlands of Scotland, where be and.Mrs. Whitridge spend their summers. Mrs. Whitridge Is a daugh- ter of Matthew Arnold. Both aré fond of outdoor-exercise. Mr. Whit- ridge walks from 15 to 25 miles a day during the summer. His selection to be special ambassador from this coun- try to the court of Spain at the wed- ding of the king 1s sald to have been on the recommendation of Secretary Root, of the state department, al- though Mr. Whitridge 1s a personal friend of the président. Mr, Whitridge was born in New Bed- ford, Mass. in 1852, He was sradu- ated from Amherst college in 1874 and from Columbia Law school in 1878. In 1884 he married Miss Lucy Amnold. He is president of the Wash: Jagton county rallroad and a dfrector of the Chicago Terminal Elevator company, the Cleveland, Akron & Co- lumbus railway, Lake Erle & Western railroad, Niagara Development -com- pany and other corporations. He is also a member of the Knickerbocker, Century, ‘Metropolitan unlvereity and other clubs. He hes not taken an ac- tive interest in local affairs in some years, He was one of thc orlginators of the municipal civil service commie. sion. NEW GUNNERY STATION. Germany Establishes Fine Shooting Grounds for Her Navy at Sonderburg. % Hamburg.—The removal of the Ger- man naval gunnery station to Sonder- burg marks the second change of ad- dress of that institution within recent years. Originally {t was installed at Withelmshaven, but that place proved unsuitable owing to the tides render- Ing it difficult of access at certain hours. Moreover, the shooting ground was a long way off, and practice had often to be suspended owing to bad ‘weather im the North sea. The next ‘move was to Kiel, with its magnif- cent harbor, within easy reach of the open sea, whence the journey to the North sea—where shoofing competl- ‘tlons are periodically held—could be wife Li? ea, oak TSE OG, 28 ce, tee PY : Oo. * 4 = if, See ns Serio ASS LS = Sad fos SRN og ty + CAG A scheenieg 22 4k wey ieigeland we Kal Lee J > = pee ¥ 2 ry Libeck \ = ey \ Hamburg NEW GUNNERY STATION AT SON- DERBURG. (Place Whero the German Naval Gunner ‘Will Be Trained.) made by the Kaiser Wilhelm canal. The increase of both naval and mes- cantile marine in Germany, however, has taxed the accommodation of that port, and Sonderburg 18 to be the fu- ture home of the Germen naval gun- nery station, with its 2,009 men and six ships—the Mars, Carola, Olga, Freya, Ulan and Hay, Sonderburg Mes in an out-of-the-way corner on the south side of Alsen island, off the coast of Scbleswig-Holsteln. ‘The sea hereabouts Js little frequented by shipping, so that there will be nothing to interfere with gunnery practice. Quarters will be provided on shore for the married warrantoficers and men, and the ships, will be stationed nere iae Whole year round, only going to Kiel for repairs. WHERE FEMININE VISITORS TO HOUSE OF COMMONS SIT. Latest Effort to Have the Barrier Re- , moved Proves Unavailing—Inter- esting History of How Gallery Came to Be Established. London.—Degpite the reforming zeal of the new boise of commons It has been decided that its “grille"—the symbol of women’s political inferforl. ty—Is to be retained. The grille ts the name given to the brass grating which screens the occupants of the ladies’ gallery from the view of the members. Henry Norman, an English M. P. who was educated at Harvard and bas quite American notions of how women shouit ue Loied oe the prime min.ui wartier “it “ight not safely” be removed.s Sir Henrt Campbell, Banmerman, whe bas & gift of pawky humor, played awhile wat the question. Did mean “safety for” or “satety from” the ladies he asked. But'finally he speciteally se fused Mr. Norman g request to suum the question to the nous: on thy ground that the many new members had not yet had an opportunity of studying the welghty matter _ prac ucally, ‘There is no denying that in the matter of granting facilities for hear- ing its discussions parliament treats }women scurvily. At the furthermost side of the chamber, high up, beyond what may be called the pit and thu EE of the members, back of the speaker's throne and the busy report. Jers 1s a curious looking affair which | resembles a set of stained glass win: dows. Then, again, it might be a bird cage, and it looks much lke one. Real ly, {t 1s where the honorable and gal Jant members keep their wives, sweet hearts and feminine friends wht come to hear them speak It fs th | women's cage—a real cage and not jcomfortable one at that. While al Ca: id * Arte : Bitchy RIRPQISD: * SIRPSIS 1, Vsgana ReNeneyd OE A oled aa Goel OR A X oR ROR) Vatbs poo old \ ROE LOOKING THROUGH THE “GRILLE.” mong tte ee, Sere Gansta ts Bround is Ught; it is dark; despite the electric fan it is close and stuffy; it gives rise to a species of headache quite different from the headaches ot the opera or the academs, and un- less one happens to be in the front Fow one can see little and hear less, It consists of two sections—two-thirds ‘of it are given over to the members of the house; one-third, separated by a heavy partition from the other, is fn the hands of the speaker's wife or, it he has not a wife, fs in charge of the woman who acts as the head of his household. Formerly men and women sat indis- criminately in the strangers’ gallery of the house of commons, They were even admitted to the sacred door of the house itself. How the women came to fall from their high estate 1s soon told. On February 2, 1778, a big debate had been foreshadowed, and strangers of both sexes attended In large numbers. Many women be- Ing unable to obtain admission, mo- tion was made that the gallery bé cleared of all male strangers. This excess of gallantry defeated its pur. pose. The men were cast forth, but Gov. Johnson, trritated that his men frlends had been hustled out, insist. ed that all strangers must withdraw. The mandate was issucd. For two hours, however, the women fought against its enforcement. Thereafter they were rigorously excluded. The only concession made wns to permit a limited number of them, not exceeding 14, to climb over the cell: ing of the house and look down through the ventilation hole—an awk. ward position where they were nearly stifled by the foul air and the smoke of the candles by which the chamber was then SIluminated. A few, great- ly daring, were not content with such a Jocation, Thus Wraxcll mentions that he saw the beautiful duchess of Gordon, habite? ss a man, sitting, among men 1% the strangers’ gallery. ‘And irs. She- dau, when desirous of feasting on ovr ustincuished hus- band’s eloques. alse used to adopt the disguise of doublet and hose. | Thus matters stood ull the whole place was burned down In 1834. Lord Brougham strenuously opposed mak- ing any provision for tae accommoda- tlon of Won ia the ses valld.ng. Their bird ea;2 galley. where they could see without being seen, was the result of a compromise vezween the cbivalrous and tae unchivalrous. Japancse Honor, U. Iwatanl, a Jopanese soldier on his way home ftom p-lson in Russia, committed suicide on recelving a let: ter from bis father eaying that his conduct In belrg taken alive would spoil the reputation of the Japanese army and cast cdiym on the names of tho family and tho villagers, and concluded by ordering him not to return home alive. AMBULANCE DOGS. This Government to Use Canines in the Hospital Service of ‘ the Army. San Francisco—Wwith a gallant rec- ord in the Red Cross service of the kalser’s army, “Fritz,” a pretty dlack- and-white setter, has come to the United States to tench American dogs a new usefulness. “Fritz” was im- ported by Col. J. W. Hardie: recently at the Presidio under waiting ordgrs. Col. Hardie, with “Fritz” as a demon- stration, hopes to awaken the medical department of Uncle Sam's army to the fact that it Is several years bebind the European armies in seeking the value of trained dogs for seeking out and carrying “first ald” to the wound. ed on the battle field. Col. Hardie wilt take the matter up with Lieut. Charles Le itig ueaaeeinne coariet Stet + get NN e-4 HORSE BOG HAUIEPED FOR BERT: (Regular Feature of European Armies to Ve Introduced in United States ARNE.) Norton Barney, of the medical depart- ment of the United States army, who fs already much Interested in the sub- Sect. | In the armies of Italy, France, Germany and England the ambulance dog has long been an official worker, and Italy has even provided a pensioa for ambulance dogs, The dogs are trained to understand military or- ders, and elaim one order as distinct- ly their own, At the command “Seek wounded” the four-footed helpers are. off over the battlefield to nose out those who have fallen, Attached to ‘thelr collars or in pockets inside their Red Cross blankets they carry a packet of stimulant and banuages, and if the wounded can help himself this “first afd" gives him strength aad fortifies kim until the dog, by «!.mb- ing a near-by bank or eminence and barking sharply, attracts the attentiou of a field surgeon or nurse. Every dog fs taught to regard a prostrate man as wounded, and the intelligent an!- mals lose no time In calling for help. The German army has an especially fine lot of kennels, and the medical department takes great pride in its trained ‘logs. ‘The scenting powers of the ambu- lance dog supply a means of seeking out the wounded for which hnman shrewdness has no susbtitute. Many times the human searchers wit pas within a few feet of an unconscious soldier hidden in a trench or brush, or fait to eateh’ the faint ery of a bud~ ly wounded man. . A NEW NATIONAL PARK.” Revival of Movement for Setting Apart 2,000,000 Acres for Play Ground in Appalachiacs. Washington.—There is revlying 2 movement to have the government +s- tablish a huge Appalachian fore. re- serve or national park to take in the most plcturesqne mountain s-ction where Virginis, West Virginla, Ken- tucky, Tennessee and North Carolina converge. About 2,000,000 acres of the most nearly virgin land east of the Mississippi river is Involved. The idea got Into congress in” 192. and a bill passed the senate to appro- priate $10,000,000 and was favorably reported by the house committee on agriculture. An association was formed of which Rutherford P. Haye-. a son of the late president, was the Ss: Boo La] ISS a AS = \ ee 4 aa wi CSS em FA . a Wingate ' Are | A to pote RS on PARK, (Shaded Portion of Map Shows Location of Preserve in the Appalachian Moun- tain itange.} 2 hedd. It has been revived by persons who have just met at Asheville, N. C, Whether $10,000,000 now would buy, the tract Is very doubtful. However, a great deal of that land can be bought for the money Sf it 1s appropriated. The Idea fs to give the perhaps 60- 000,000 people who are within 48 hours’ ride of the region a permanent playground and nature spot, auch as the Yellowstone National park fs to the west. The highest mountains and. most ravishing scenery east of the Rockies fs inctuded In the heart of the great watershed, from which fo many rivers flaw. It fg Jargely for the purpose of sav Ing these rivers that the project 1s urged, Commercialism is making ter- rible inroads upon the country, level- ing {ts aluost printeval timber, and scarring the mountain sides so that the surface soll {s being swept away and floods and droughts alternately are the result. ‘The plan, which no doubt will be: fought bitterly by the many great! commercial Interests that are boriag, into this retreat of the dryad and faun, does not Involvé dispossessing! the mall farmers who now toha%it} the recion, but {s to limit them to cul- tivation of 200 acres eack. The coun- try 1s not very adaptable to agricul- ture. It is claimed tbat only about 50,000 people are settled in this caus- try, mostly in villages. The Bee PUBLISHED AT 109 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. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. On copy per year.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three Months.....6.00 Subscribe monthly.....2.00 TORYISM VS. REFORM. To the thoughtful, colored man of today the drift of American tendencies is far from encouraging. There are two positive movements in speedy progress. One is a gradual drifting back toward the social status of antebellum days and the other is a promiscuous stampede after the almighty dollar. The first is best expressed in the term Toryism and the second in that of materialism. One aims to establish the claim to superiority upon race and ancestry and the other seeks the perpetuation of political power through the possession and influence of money. From a purely social point of view, the spirit of Toryism is by far the more dangerous and destructive of Democratic institution of the two. However seductive and dangerous wealth may be in the hands of wicked or ambitious men, yet, in most cases it is an expression of intellectual activity of inventive genius and is a necessary factor in the maintenance of enlightened and stable government. Moreover, wealth is no respecter of persons—it beckons to all without regard to race or condition and rewards all who practice industry and frugality. Hence wealth, in the possession of individuals influenced by the high stimulus of charity and benevolence, may become a glorious instrument for good rather than evil. But Toryism, by which is here meant the determination of individual or class superiority upon race or social status, the clinging to ante-bellum social classifications, simply because they were ante-bellum distinctions, is by far the most harmful power now at work in the American body politic. And the reasons are manifest. In the first place the inevitable tendency of class distinctions is undemocratic. It contemplates the right of the few to rule the many, and denies to the masses the privilege of entering into competition for social distinction and political pre-eminence. In the next place it stimulates false pride in that it predicates superiority upon an unwarrantable presumption that because they can trace lineage some one or two centuries, therefore they are better than their fellows, notwithstanding they can point to no worthy action done from remotest ancestry down to themselves. Again, the natural consequence of this self-asserted superiority is the construction of the human sympathies, a cold indifference toward the masses. This class of Tories abhor all phases of reform whereby the people as a whole are made better and wiser. They are aristocratic, cynical, bigoted and intolerant. They are the Metternichs, the Chataubriands of the nation and hold to their social notions with the tenacity of the Romanoffs or Hohenzollers of Europe. For this reason the colored people view with disappointment and alarm the tendency of the so-called better class toward exclusiveness and national indifferentism and the whites generally toward the assertion of natural superiority over the colored people. And it is wonderful to note with what self-composure and even cheerfulness the colored people bear their burdens and view unfavorable conditions amid privations and wrongs and injustices and persecutions. The history of human society furnishes no such picture of philosophic resignation and Christian fortitude as that presented at this time by the colored people of this country. The history of the last hundred years. furnishes no incident or social conditions upon which to justify an arraignment of the ruling classes such as is within the power of the colored people of this country at this time. And all because of the spirit of Toryism. We are Jim-Crowed at every point. In public schools, public inns, public parks, public highways, the spirit of Jim-Crowism runs rampant. And although the laws are pregnant with the sentiment of the equality of all men, yet in administration the basest lie is stamped upon them, which is winked at if not wholly sustained by the highest courts in the land. And yet the colored people bear it all with stoical heroism and look toward Providence for that relief which must surely sooner or later come. To many this reliance upon Providence seems cowardly, but to the majesty it is but the expression of moral heroism, a belief in the ultimate supremacy of right over might and the universal adoption of the brotherhood of man. The folly of force in our present situation is suggested by the attempt or the Irish, in the thirties, to force from England an acknowledgment of the independence of Ireland. In 1832 there were committed by the Irish people, as the result of agitation for independence, 242 murders, 1,179 robberies, 401 burglaries, 568 cases of arson, 161 assaults and 203 riots, and yet Ireland has not secured independence, showing the futility of brute force in such crises. Hopeful and peacably disposed, yet craving the exercise of our full civil and political rights, we appeal to all good men and women, who love liberty and justice and who possess the virtue of Christian charity, to help the race to develop a moral sentiment which will remove American Toryism from our midst and substitute in its stead the spirit of reform and the policy of fair-dealing. A SLANDERER OF NEGRO WOMANHOOD. Another seeker after notoriety, dollars and Mosesship is abroad in the land, and he has emerged from obscurity with an assortment of falsehood, misrepresentation and detraction which ought to meet the most sanguine expectations of white people who encourage this sort of thing on the part of negro solicitors of funds for alleged educational and religious purposes. The creature referred to bears the name of T. Nelson Baker; it is said he is a negro and a minister, and resides at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Any negro minister who divides his name in that way is necessarily an object of ridicule, if not of suspicion. Nelse Baker (we say Nelse Baker rather than T. Nelson Baker) because we think it befitting the character of the man as revealed in his utterances) broke out in the Congregationalist of the 7th inst. to the following effect: "It is pathetic and sad to hear that while one of the greatest missionary conventions that the Student Volunteers have ever held was going on, the negro students who are to be the leaders of the negro race were outside pouting like children because they were not allowed to sit by the side of white men! "When I reflect upon the multicolored aspect of the American negro, and when I remember that these many colors came to the negro race through the degradation of negro women by white men, and when I remember and reflect upon the fact that this degradation—not in all cases, we are glad to say, but in far too many cases—was made easy through the perverted aesthetical taste of the negro woman, which perversion made her willing to sacrifice her virtue that her child might be made a little more beautiful by having 'good hair,' 'thin lips,' 'a light skin' and a 'prettier nose;' and when I remember that this aesthetical perversion is still strong in the life of the American negro—I say, when I remember these things—I welcome almost anything that will keep the negro woman and the Southern white man as far apart as possible." It is nothing less than infamous that a man and a minister should utter a falsehood as palpable as this certainly is. It is simply incredible that the best young men and women of the race should entertain the notions which this libeller ascribes to them. That they should complain against discrimination in the matter of being seated in a convention is creditable to their self-respect and manhood. We sincerely hope this part of Nelse Baker's narrative is true. The other part is most certainly not true. Any man who would assail the womanhood of any race in this way is not entitled to any sort of consideration from decent right-thinking people. In this view of the matter the Congregationalist is even a greater offender than Nelse Baker. The Congregationalist is a respectable and well-known religious publication, and is the organ of a denomination that has done wonders in the education and development of the negro. We are at a loss to understand why a paper of this character should give place in its columns to a calumny as dark and infamous as this. We do not believe the Congregationalist would have published a similar attack on the womanhood of any other race of people living within the limits of the United States. As it is an organ of religion, we expect it to make an ample and complete apology for the wrong done. As for Nelse Baker, we leave him to the oblivion which yawns for him. HOW TO ELIMINATE "JIM CROWISM." A great deal has been said about Jim Crow cars and Jim Crow theaters. In the first instance the colored people have a right to ride in cars without being discriminated against because they pay taxes to the general government for its support. It is only the common white people who discriminate against the colored people on account of their color. While the colored people have a right to ride in cars, they have no right to be boisterous and dirty in their person, and neither should they use vulgar language nor act in any way disorderly while in the company of other well-behaved people. If you want to be respected, the colored people should respect themselves. It is true that white men will not give colored ladies seats if they enter a car and find them occupied. While this is true, there is no reason for colored men to be disrespectful and refuse to give white ladies seats if the car is filled when they enter. Because white men have no respect for colored ladies, there is no reason for colored men to be disrespectful to white ladies, who show no disrespect to colored ladies when they are seated next to them. There are white men who are gentlemen enough to give colored ladies a seat. is none is vacant when they enter a car. If theaters discriminate against the colored people on account of their color, they are not compelled to attend them. The best way is to keep away from or unite and build a theater of their own. Colored people as a rule will not invest. They are afraid to speculate, and indeed they will not trust one another. The reason for that is, the colored man in business, with a few exceptions, imagines all the time that he is being robbed and in many instances his belief is well founded. There has been no enterprise started in this city that has been successful. Suppose the white people would say that they will combine in business and freeze out the negro, what would become of him? Suppose the white men would say that they will no longer sell a negro goods. What would become of the negro? It is the duty of the colored man to live on friendly terms with his white neighbor if he can and let there be reciprocity of interest between them. There are hundreds of business houses in the city controlled by white people that are friendly to the colored people and a few that don't cater for colored trade. The great trouble with some colored people is they oppose each other and are just as prejudiced against each other as some white people. The moment the colored people realize the fact that they are citizens of their republic and cease Jim Crowing themselves, the sooner their citizenship will be established. Good behaviour, cleanliness, industry and self-reliance will do more to eliminate Jim Crowism than anything else. PASSING OF NEGRO SERVANTS. It is indeed sad to see so many of our colored girls out of employment and wandering around from place to place. Many of them are too proud to work for their own people and many of them are too lazy to work for the white people. Of course there are some honorable exceptions. The colored servants should remember that they can be ladies and gentlemen in the kitchen and dining room as well as they can in the parlor. There are lots of young men and women working out as servants and can command respect if they respect themselves. But the condition of many of the colored servants to-day is heart-rending. Many of them are not wanted because they are not reliable and unclean in their appearance. The large hotels are dispensing with the colored waiters, bell boys and colored cooks. Barber shops that have here-tofore been conducted by colored men are fast being displaced by white barbers. The Italians have pushed the colored bootblack aside and established modern and up-to-date bootblack parlors. The Chinaman and up-to-date laundries have taken the place of the colored washerwoman, and the colored nurses no longer are seen upon the public streets. What will be the future of the colored servant is the question? The colored pulpit has thrown aside religion and joined the army of money grafters. Instead of religion in the colored church being preached, begging for money to carry into effect speculation schemes from which many of them receive a percentage. What will be the future of the colored servant is the question that ought to be considered by the pulpit. The time is ripe for the colored people in this city to be looking about them. The colored servant is passing out of existence fast. OUR COMMISSIONERS During the discussion of the school bill in the House of Representatives this week several members embraced the opportunity to criticise the District Commissioners. So far as the management of the government is concerned, there has never been a set of men more honest than the present Board of Commissioners. The Bee has but one fault to make and that is against the Engineer Commissioner, Col. Biddle, who seems to be opposed to the colored citizen. He has given him no consideration whatever, no matter how competent he has demonstrated himself. The citizens are opposed to the President appointing the School Board and neither do they favor the Supreme Court having anything to do with the selection of their school officers. The President has as much as he can attend to and our courts haven't time enough to attend to the business before them now. Then again the District Commissioners are the proper persons to manage our schools. There is someone in the background that is opposed to our Commissioners managing the schools. That someone seemed to have had something to do with our schools and has received a just rebuke from the Commissioners for some offense not agreeable to our Commissioners. The management of our schools should remain in the hands of the Commissioners who have a better knowledge of our people than anyone else. THE WAYWARD GIRLS. There is no institution in this city for the colored girl who has fallen from grace. There is no reformatory except the reform school that seemed to have been established for our colored boys and girls. No white girl is ever sent to the reform school. And why? Because the white Christian people in this community have made sacrifices for their wayward girls by establishing homes. They spend their money and give them time toward reforming their wayward girls. Why can't the colored people do something in this direction? The church has no time for this kind of work. The colored preacher is too busy arranging for picnics and excursions. Hundreds of colored girls are fined in the Police Court daily and those who are too poor to pay their fines are sent to the workhouse. Let the colored population be doing something for our wayward girls. THE PUBLIC WARNED. Prof. Will Marion Cook, who is presenting Williams and Walker's show in this city at Convention Hall April 30, May 1 and 2, has received information that tickets are being sold for this show at the Philadelphia House and Stewart's barber shop at advanced prices. The purchaser or purchasers of these tickets are warned that none of these tickets will be honored at the door. Any party or parties having secured tickets at either place, the Philadelphia House of Stewart's barber shop, who will apply to Mr. Cook, will have money refunded. The only legitimate sale of tickets for this show is at Droop's Music Store, 609 F street, N. W. We have just received an invitation from our young and distinguished friend, Melvin J. Chisholm, Esq., of New York, to attend the complimentary dinner to Hon. James W. Johnson, recently appointed United States Consul to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, to be held May 5th. We regret our inability to attend. We tender, however, our congratulations to Mr.Johnson and extend to the Republicans of New York who have honored Mr. Johnson our best wishes. PRESS COMMENTS. ROSCOE BRUCE HIDES HIS TALENTS. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, who graduated from Harvard a few years ago with such brilliant honors, is down at Tuskegee holding a position that any ordinary person might fill as well. One way by which it seems that Booker T. Washington hopes to get to be boss of the negro race is by gobbling up all brilliant young men and women which other schools develop and taking them down to Tuskegee and making them his subordinates. This he does at whatever cost, since he gets his money easy. He gives Bruce $150 a month to do what he could get others to do as well for $75 to $80. Bruce is there Washington's subordinate with his fine talents rusting and dying out, while the race at large is suffering for their active exercise. If Roscoe had a little more of the old time fire and self-confidence of his illustrious sire, B. K., he would fling back to Washington his bag of gold and go out and give his struggling race the benefit of his splendid talents and fine training. But Washington could not be bigger than Bruce unless he kept Bruce under him. MEN AND. NOT PARTY. From the Palestine Plaindealer. A great deal is being said by the negro press and certain politicians of color about Col. C. A. Lyons filling the dual position of national committeeman and state chairman. Two years ago these same newspapers and politicians were all whooping for the invincible Colonel, but it seems that Mr. Lyons has failed to make good. They claimed that if both of these positions were given to Col. Lyons he could appoint some prominent negro to a federal position. We cannot vouch for this promise, but we are free to say that, up to this good day, no Negro in Texas holds a federal appointment, above a deputyship. Republican politics in Texas as far as the negro is concerned is a farce. The leaders in the main, are a set or men who care as much about a colored man as Ben Tillman, James Vardaman or Jeff Davis. The negro should pay less attention to party lines and vote for the best man to fill the offices regardless of their politics. We had rather vote for a straight, forward, honest Democrat than to support a lily white Republican. Let politics go and get money and prosperity and you can make yourself felt. HOW WE ARE POISONED From Our Dumb Animals There come to our table in the La Moure County (North Dakota) Chronicle, of January 26, about two columns and a half, showing how two hundred and thirty-nine different articles of foods and drinks are adulterated, and nearly all with poisonous and dangerous adulterations. They are certified to by E. F. Ladd, Chemist and Food Commissioner of North Dakota, and published in conformity with the North Dakota law requiring their publication. The reading of them reminds us of the clergyman who, after preaching all summer to a White Mountain audience that there was no hell, failed to collect his salary, and on the last Sunday told them that if there was no hell there ought to be! Our belief is, as we have often said in Our Dumb Animals, that no really effective remedy can be found except by the organization of Public Health Associations, supported by voluntary gifts, entirely independent of politics and the influence of rich adulterators, which shall be constantly investigating through reliale chemists and microscopists things dangerous to public health; give them the widest publicity and call upon the proper officers to prosecute violators of As our readers know, our American Humane Education Society has offered a prize of three hundred dollars for the best plan of stopping these poisonous and dangerous adulterations, and we sincerely hope that some useful gestions may come from that offer. "THE POOR MAN'S OYSTER From the Literary Digest This name is given to the snail by people in France and Spain, where this molusk is not only a fairly common article of food among the poor, but is held in great estetm by the gourmet. Says an editorial writer in The Lancet (London March 17): "The suggestion that the snail should form a cheap article of food in the country has been revived and there is nothing to be said against the proposal from a dietetic point of view, for, properly cooked, the snail is both nutritious and tasty. "Care must be exercised in the choice of the snail for food purposes, as it is well known that snails feed on poisonous plants and it is the custom in France it allow a few days to elapse after they have been taken from their feeding ground in order that any poisonous matters may be eliminated. Most of the snails in France used for edible purposes are collected from the vineyards of Burgundy, Champagne, and Lorraine, which we may be sure, afford a perfectly clean feeding-ground for the snail, considering the care which is taken to protect the vines from disease. According to analysis very nearly 90 per cent of the solid matter of the snail is proted matter available directly for repairing the tissues of the body. Besides this there are about 6 per cent of fat and 4 per cent of mineral matter, including pho-phates. Compared with the oyster, this would show that the snail contains about 100 per cent more nutritious substances. The suggestion, therefore, that the snail should be used, for food is not merely sentimental." SPEAK TO THE POINT From Ohio Standard. A bill has been introduced in Congress to separate the colored and white race on the street cars in Washington City. Of course it will not pass, but the Bee of that city has taken the hint and has come out in a timely article against the conduct and general deportment of some of the colored people while riding on the cars in that place. Editor Chase speaks to the point plainly and forcefully and tells what is what Right. In dealing with these vexing questions we must overlook our faults. INTERESTING ARTICLE The April issue of the Colored American Magazine, of New York, the lead the country issued by and in the interests of the colored race, contains an interesting article on Colored Athletics, from the pen of Charleston's well-known colored orator, Phil Waters, who is well known, is a devotee of all athletic sports, and has probably done much to promote interest in them as any member of his race in the State, if not more. The article in question shows that Phil has control of the pen to an equal extent with that which characterizes his right of the tongue, which is equivalent to saying that the time spent in the perusal of his article might easily be put to much less profitable use. An excellently printed and lifelike cut of its author also accompanies the article THE BEE WOULD LIKE TO SEE The colored attorney united. The Catholic Church protect the negro. The The Bee are notified will be sent to them and they will either send a check or postal management will subscribers with collectors. [Address, P. L. C Subscription Depart- of The Washington Bee, 1009 Eye Stwart has purchased a new morn- norm. Harry H Cummings was in city last week. Sperer Robinson and Mr. Wil- lan Barrett of the city went to Rich- land. Va. to attend the funeral of Jane Robinson. Lawyer Parkins, who was in the city becomes has returned to Roanoke, Dr. Sheppard, of Durham, N. left in the house Monday morn- ners. Shepherd has had for her new Mrs. M Cowdery of Philadel- la. He was glass, Wetmore, formerly Jackson's Fla. but now of New Wa. in the city last week. Mr Var. F Blackwell, who has been angling her sister, Mrs. R. G. Ball, of Rock Ark. has returned. Miss Emma F. G Merritt spent her interior Lynchburg, Va., the guest of and Mrs. L. S. Goldsberry. Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. West and an after having spent a delightful time Atlantic City, N. J., have returned. Dr. Ferman J. Shadd and family, who have been spending some time in Atlan- city, N. J., have returned to the city. The atment in the Congregational Church Wednesday evening was attend- ing a large number of society people. Mrs. Curry and her son, who were receiving the Easter holidays, have returned to their home in Philadelphia. Miss Ava Suddam, of 2505 M street, W. gave a delightful card party at her residence last Friday evening. De- diful mime was in attendance. Miss Jesse Fortune, the accomplished daughter of Editor Fortune of the New York Age, in the city, the guest of Mr. Edaardt Shanklin of Columbus, who with her two little girls were actually commoned here on account of the eminence of Mrs. Shanklin's mother. Prof Booker T. Washington, accompanied by two of his secretaries, was in the city Monday. He called at the White House. He was entertained by Ex-Gov. B S. Pinchback. Mr. Eleanor Cartus of our city will be made of honor for her sister Miss name, who will be married to Dr. John Hall of Boston, Mass., in June. Miss Anne Cartus of Chicago, Ill. Wednesday Ballar and Wormley went to Boston Mass, last week as the guests of Mrs R Hemmings, of Sussex street. They were entertained at luncheon by Mr. Page Brooks, of Wescott street. During Caver week D. G. Treasurer W Lee has been quite busy furnishing many customers with all sorts of flowers and shrubbery. Brother Lee is one of the best-known florists in the city. Mr W Calvin Chase read a paper before the Epworth League of Asbury Church last Sunday. Tomorrow Dr. Joe H. Hardson will read a paper entitled "Pulpit." Exercises begin Mr Thomas L. Jones read a very interesting paper before the Second Bapital Lycee, last Sunday afternoon, enclosed withers. The paper was dissected by Attorney M. T. Clinkescales and M. Gordon. Mr Arthur F. Boston, the social representative, The Bee, has been quite sick at his home. The genial Arthur is much loved in the social circle. There are many in the social circle more affluent. Mr Boston and his return was greeted with enthusiasm. The College, Md public schools having held their closing exercises two weeks, Miss Lena Hewitt who was returned to the city. The soiled people of Maryland have the advantage of the schools seven months to the year and the white ten. The soiled schools closed March 30. Mr. and Mrs. John Trammell of 2236 12th street, N. W., are two happy souls. Mr. Trammell, who is now attached to the executive staff at the White House, is one of the most popular employees there. He is liked by everybody. This genial host and hostess are two of the best social entertainers in the vicinity of 12th street, N. W. Their weekly functions are always attended by many of their social friends. The social event of last Wednesday was a scene of much brilliancy. It was a tea given in honor of a few select friends of the host and hostess. The reception parlor and dining room were beautifully decorated with flowers and large palms. In each corner of the reception room were four massive palms. The table was decorated with cut flowers and at each guest's plate was a beautiful bouquet of flowers. The cream was made in watermelon shape and served in miniature size to each guests. It was made by Denmont. Miss Norman Barrett, an accomplished pianist, furnished the music. Among those present were Miss Lizzic Yates, Miss Dowling, Mr. Talbert Dowling and Mr. Dean. FIRST ANNIVERSARY The First anniversary of the Silver Star Juvenile Society No. 247 G. U. O. of O. F. last Sunday at Miles Memorial Church. Rev. L. E. B. Rosser the pastor preached the sermon. The following program was rendered Call to order, Supervisor Annie V. Hicks; Music, Choir; Prayer, Rev. L. E. B. Rosser; History of the Juvenile Society, Carrie Harris; Sermon, Rev. Rosser; Music, Choir; Selection, Beulah Scott; Solo, "Suffer Little Children to come unto me; Selection, Gracie Butler; Collection; Bendiction. The Supervisors are: Annie V. Hicks Indiana Tyler, Anthony Mason, B.J. Tyler. THE DAUGHTER OF EDITOR FORTUNE VISITS WASHINGTON Miss Jesse Fortune, of Red Bank, New Jersey, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Thomas Fortune, is visiting the nation's capital for the first time and is the guest of Judge and Mrs. Robert H. Terrell. Miss Fortune is a teacher in the public schools of greater New York. All of the pupils are white yet she is one of the best beloved teachers in New York. Miss Fortune has inherited much of the literary ability of her distinguished father and has written considerably for the press, both in prose and poetry and her work has been very creditable for one so young. On Tuesday night her hostess, Mrs. Terrell, gave a large and brilliant reception in honor of Miss Fortune and more than a hundred of the younger element of Washington society gathered to pay their respects to her. In the receiving line were Mrs. Terrell, Misses Fortune, Grace Nail of New York, Sallie Johnson, Imogene Wormley, May Tyson, and Tessa Lee. The ushers were, Messrs. James A. Cobb, Haley Douglass, Benjamin Washington and Amplias Glenn. Miss Fortune will be the recipient of a great deal of social attention while in the city. SOCIAL CHIT CHAT. The boys and girls were out last Sunday with their Easter outfit. Now lets be honest, when will the smoker of the Y. M. P. L. take place? Don't laugh, it is too serious. Say, William, how did you like Johnnie's trousers last Sunday? Out of sight. Are you going? Where? To the Y. M. P. L. reception May 4, Washington Light Infantry Armory. I wouldn't miss it. Some people turn on their best friends when they find that they can't use them. Boys, because the privals have closed, be true to your profession of faith, or in other words, come clean. Williams and Walker will soon be here. A hint—don't come in contact with them. Please don't, from a financ- city standpoint if no more. You heard Let's buy a hall. What for? The votes will tell why not. A BRILLIANT MARRIAGE Miss Hattie M. Hansboro and Mr. Clarence W. Alexander were united in the holy bonds of matrimony Wednesday evening, April 18, 1906, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Jones, 1901 Vermont ave., N. W., by Rev. Walter H. Brooks. The parlor was beautifully decorated with palms. The ceremony was performed under an immense bell. Dr. and Mrs. Cabaness vase, Brisses Ross and Mother after dinner coffee set, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gideon cake plates, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander will be at home to their many friends on Sunday, April 29, 1906, at 1914 10th street, N. W. . Miss Alice Wormley, of Washington, is visiting Dr. and Mrs. Menton on S. 16th street. The choir of 19th Street Baptist Church of Washington furnished the music morning and evening last Sunday at the Cherry Street Church. Miss Lelia Ewing, of Howard University, was here during Easter. Mrs. Leroy Brown entertained Miss Alice Nelson, of Washington, Easter. Miss E. Richardson, of the District of Columbia, was the guest of Miss Mae Belle, Walker Easter. Mrs. Kesiah Green gave a luncheon in honor of Mrs. H. Lane of Washington while she was here on a visit. Miss Ossie Cromwell, of Washington, paid her aunt, Mrs. Nancy Cromwell a visit last week. Among the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, of S. 15th street, were Mrs. Keeling and Miss T. Lee of Washington. Mrs. Shadd and daughter were the guests of Mrs. Martin Cowdery Easter Monday. Miss Susie Cook, of Washington, who gave to. St. Thomas P. E. Church two candelabra in memory of her mother, was present at the blessing of the same. MISS EMMA F. G. MERRITT. Miss Emma F. G. Merritt has an excellent article in the Voice, of the Negro on Douglass Day. Miss Merritt wants the day made national and gives several good reasons why the day should be made national. Locals We are very sorry to announce that our Society Chit Chat writer has been on the sick list. Is he all right now, Dr. Pierre? Jno. R. Brown is making a fine reputation as financial secretary of several organizations. He knows no members except on financial basis. The reception committee of the Young Men's Immediate Relief Association tendered a collation to the ladies who rendered much valuable assistance at the reception given on March 2. The collation was given at the residence of Mr. Molen, 407 O Street, N. W., Wednesday evening, April 11, music preceding the same being rendered by Messns. Bias, Hatton and Harris, after which all repaired to the dining room and partook of the sumptuous spread. BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE. 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SURETY LOAN COMPANY Room 1, Warder Bldg., Cor. 9th and A Square Deal FOR EVERYBODY A Square Deal FOR EVERYBODY SIB to SSM On FURNITURE, PIANOS, TEAMS, ETC., without removal, at a low rate of interest. WHEN YOU BUY MERCHANDISE you go to a reliable house. Why not do the same thing when you borrow money? We are an old-established company, and treat everybody alike. Isn't it worth your while to see us before dealing elsewhere? We pay off other companies and advance you more money. We also loan on plain note to salaried employees, and make a specialy loans to TEACHERS. POTOMAC GUARANTEE LOAN GO 928 F Street, Northwest. ATLANTA WORKING ROOMS 25 and 26 floors. Airway or elevator. Among those present were: Mrs. H. Lyons, Mrs. Nelson, Misses Wilson, Tyler, Jackson, Cole, Torrance and Carr, and Messrs. H. W. Ball, president, Hatton, Ennie, Molen, Lyons Mahoney, Harris, Bias, Hackley Williams, Drew, Rollins, Walker, Hunter, Richardson, Banker Dodson, Cleveland, Lee, Simmie, Naylor and Chase. MISSIONARY WORK IN THE DISTRICT. A largely attended mass meeting was held at Friendship Baptist Church, 1st and H streets at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon last under the auspices of the Missionary Society of that church. Miss Della M. Shaw, the president of the Society presided. In her opening address she forcefully impressed upon the audience the growing importance of missionary work in the District and the necessity of immediate organized effort. The principal address was delivered by Lawyer W. C. Martin, who quoted largely from the 45th chapter of St. Matthew. He declared that to fellow Christ we must help suffering and unfortunate humanity, and that the surest way to prepare souls to live in the next world was to teach them to be truthful, generous and just and respect themselves in this world. Mr. Charles Williams, superintendent of the Sabbath school made some timely sermons on the subject of mission work and the necessity of teaching self-respect. Master Lewis Carminse, a boy about 8 years of age, read a nice, well-written paper on the subject of missions. The speakers complimented Miss Shaw for the success of her praiseworthy work and encouraged her to go forward with it. Miss Matteu R. Bowen, who had also been specially invited to speak was unavoidably absent. In her laudable work Miss Shaw is ably assisted by Mrs. Hannah Hunt, Mrs. Lucy Quivers, Mrs. Lucinda Allen and Messrs, Charles Straughers, Nelson Keith, Thomas Minor and Charles Williams. Coming? Who? WILLIAMS & WALKER. When? April 30-May 1 and 2. Williams& Walker AND THEIR OWN C OA "ABYSSINIA" MUSIC BY WILL MARION COOK AND BERT WILLIAMS. CONVENTION HALL, APRIL 30, MAY 1 AND 2. THREE NIGHTS AND WED- NESDAY MATINEE. Sale of seats begins at Convention Hall Monday, April 16, and box office open from 12 noon to 6 P. M. Prices $1.50, $1.00, and 75 cents. Matinee, $1.00, 75, 50 and 25 cents. CREDIT FOR ALL WASHING- TON. 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This treatment, which lasted in one case for a month, and in the other for six weeks, resulted in enabling both doctors to resume their practice. Twenty patients—men and women—suffering from heart disease or rheumatic affections, are now awaiting treatment with the Finsen rays, some of them being already in the doctor's hands. Dr. Hasselbach's treatment results in very materially increasing the temperature of the skin; but the taking of the exact measurements has not yet been concluded. A hospital for the right ray treatment, provided with 2 beds, will be ready here for the admission of patients in a year's time. RATTLERS UNDER HEARTH. Nest of Reptiles Unkitted—Woman Scalds Them to Death and Then Displays Them. Munfordsville, Ky.—Forty-two rattle- makes, ranging in size from six inches to five feet, were killed under an old- fashioned hearth at the farmhouse of Isaac Welborn, in the Roundtree neigh- borhood. Mrs. Welborn scalded the reptiles, and, with a pair of tongs, lifted them out and placed them in a row for dis- play. For several weeks Mrs. Wel- born had complained that the house was haunted. Fr. ends shared this beli- af and neighbors ceased their visits to the Welborns. Mrs. Welborn was on the verge of prostration when she persuaded her husband to remove the hearthstone. In a hollow place the snakes were smugly awaiting the coming of warm weather. Mrs. Welborn has forgotten her nervousness and gave a dinner party and everybody in the vicinity partook of the hospitality of the Welborns and viewed the largest array of ratlers ever placed on exhibition in Kentucky. Has Longest Legs in State. Charles Coy : Naveslux, N. J., he the longest legs of any person in the state. He is but 17 years old, yet is over six feet tall. His body is unusually short, and his legs are unusually long. He requires a pair of trouser- ed inches the inside seam of the leg. With all this height Coy is a light- weight, tipping the scales at 125 pounds: A New Jersey court holds that a man is not responsible for beer bills incurred by his wife as beer is not a necessary of life. A certain smart set near New Jersey would like to know whether the same rule applies to cockballs and highballs. NOT I The Trust PURITY ICE CO. A from PURE SPRING water. Delivered in mss. Sells largest 5 ceut piece of ice of a WOOD and Coal. ceCompany-cor50 HIGH·DEGRE of satisfaction is a rare the $2.50 shoes. Shoes at this ally lack style or comfort or The style of more expensive good solid value are found in Signet $2.50 because of the exceptional stowed on the making. The ness in it anywhere is the pr A Goodyear-welted shoe, mural of the season's handsome the most popular leathers. Looks first rate and wear every time. It's worth your while to come the Signet over, even if you to buy is a rare thing in most shoes at this price usu- comfort or both. 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Following Brands: Private Stock, Old Reserve, Hermit Oxford, Trempat 25 TENTH SREET, N. W. Telephone—Main—160 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 Monday nights in each month. Rev. S. T Shephard, worthy president. T. P Haywood, W. C. S. Ocne Weathers W. P. P. Golden Star Department of the I O. N. I. C. of A. F., No. 248, meets at St. James, La., the first and third Saturdays in each month. J. W Walker, W. P. P. Alex. Anoisan W. C. S. Eastern Star Department, No. 243 of the I. O. N. I. C. of A. F., meets at Darrow, La., the second and fourth Saturdays in each month. Leon Baptise, W. P. P. M. Baptise, W. C. S Dempsey Wilson, W. R. S. 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. B Bartley, W. C. S. NOTICE To all Departments of the I. O. N. I. C. of A. Fraternal, the semi-annual pass word is ready for all Departments. Send for it at once. See Ritual, page 13. Evergreen Department, No. 240, meet at Red Fish, La, the 1st and 3rd Friday in each month. A. T. Finley, W. P. P.; Chaa. Dupar; F. V. P.; A. T. Finley, W. C. S. Harmony Department, No. 71, used SCIENTISTS TO DESTROY THE WATER HYACINTH Chemical Has Been Compounded Which Does Away, with Hindrance to Navigation—Liquid Is Secret —Sprayed Upon Flower. Washington.—For years scientific men have been making every effort to find a means of destroying the water hyacinth. Its growth is most luxuriant, and it spreads so rapidly that it covers vast areas of the waters of southern rivers and becomes a menace to navigation. Various have been the schemes to rid the water, ways of this pest, but none have been effective till quite recently. A chemical has been compounded which has such an effect upon the plant that if it comes in contact with the stem or blossom these portions soon wither. The solution is so powerful, also that it works its way down the stem, killing the root. Some of the ingredients are known only to the inventor, but a large quantity of acid is used in its preparation. The process of manufacture is very simple, the "laboratory" being placed upon a barge provided with two tanks. Connected with the tanks is a boiler, in which the ingredients are mixed at a high temperature, which is produced by steam heat. The laboratory boat or barge used in the work is of light draft, so that it may be towed by the spraying boat. The latter is provided with three reservoirs, which are filled by pumping from the barge. Pipes lead from the reservoirs to a steam pump, which supplies the spraying apparatus. This consists of three booms. One extends directly in front of the vessel, being supported by a block and tackle attached to the bow deck. The others project from the sides of the vessel. The sprayers consist of hollow tubes, which are perforated at intervals of about a foot, and the holes are fitted with miniature nozzles. The liquid is forced into the sprayers through lines of hose, which are connected to the sprayers by couplings in the usual manner. The arrangement of the sprayers is such that the chemical can be distributed over a space of 90 feet in width when the boat is moving. The reservoirs carry a sufficient supply of chemical to cover about 100,000 square yards, and on a portion of the stream where the growth is not too rank the steamer will treat this area of surface in a day. In places where the side sprayers cannot be utilized on account of trees or other obstructions the chemical is applied to the plants by means of ordinary hose operated by members of the crew. That this method is most effective is proved by the fact that portions of the dead growth which have been taken from the St. John's river, where the chemicals have been applied, showed that the fiber has decomposed at the very roots. In this state it no longer hinders navigation, for the solution kills the seeds as well as the plants. The best time for carrying on the work has been found to be during the seeding time, and as great a space as possible is covered during that period. The solution used is of such destructiveness that the withering process begins within a few hours after it has been applied, for it penetrates to the very roots. Philadelphia. Pa.—A frolic at a social gathering last January is causing considerable uneasiness to several persons in Camden. There was a party given January 27 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Patterson at 800 Spruce street. During the funmaking Robert Currens asked Miss Rebecca Shindler to become his bride. D. G. Moore, entering into the spirit of the occasion, asked to act as "minister," so he "united" Currens and the woman. Unfortunately, the latter thought the ceremony genuine, especially when given a certificate. In fact she has refused to look upon the matter as a joke, and Proctor Lloyd's attention will be called to the case. Miss Shindled is about 30 years old, while Currens is not yet 30. 3HOT A 5,000-FOOT CHUTE Little Girl Makes a Flying Trip and Escapes. Without Hurt in Winsted, Conn.—Marie Rosler, six years old, whose father is a wood-chopper on Canaan mountain, in West Norfolk, had a thrilling ride down the mountain side in the 5,000-foot trough of the Canfield Lime company. The trough, made as smooth glass by the wood sliding down it, has a sharp descent and then rises to low the wood to shoot up into the air and fall into a pile. The girl crawls up into the trough and was coming down feet first when men at the base of the mountain heard her cry. Like a shot out of a car window the girl left the trough and stepped feet into the arm of Forensic King Tierney, frightened but uninjured. Man, 103, to Wed. Gll of 23. Out in Co. to be 15 to a lady 23 to of those women to gather and exhibit ARRANGES OWN FUNERAL Indiana Man Provides That He Borne to Grave by Democrate Voted for Polk South Bend, Ind.—"When I am am and ready to be laid away in the h last sleep, I want to be buried in plain, reough coffin covered with h ork bark. I have been a Democrat my life, and I want men who h been lifelong Democrat to be a pallbearers. I don't care who h lected to preach the funeral service but it is my request that John Hartmen say what he an that he been good in me during by life and in the event that I should ouc Mr. Hartmen then I want J. B. S to do this for me." The above is the strange record made by Jacob Martin, a pioneer resident of St. Joseph county. Mr. Martin explains that he realizes he nearing the end of his earthly career and that as he is firmly determined upon his funeral arrangement he wants them published now in order that they will be carried out as he sires. "I was born and reared a Democrat, said Mr. Martin, "and I want to be buried as and by Democrats. My first wife was cast for Polk and Dallas." Mr. Martin was 88 years old. Her 8, and he has been a resident of this county for 77 years. HOOSIER POET BUYS HILL Riley and His Chum. Dickey. Build Twenty-Seven Room House on the Summit. Indianapolis, Ind.—Bear Wiley Hill, Brown county, the second highest point in Indiana, has been purchased by James Whitcomb Riley and his close personal friend, Joe Dickey, and they will build a summer resort on its crown. Mr. Riley has long wished for some place where all the conditions will be favorable to the play of the imagination, and to intellectual growth and he will make Bear Wiley a sort peculiarly adapted to his posea. Bear Wallow is one of the most picturesque places in the state. The hill gets its name from the old inhabitants, that wallowed with delight on its green slopes and rocky sides. Many of Riley's poems are said to have been inspired by the beauty of the hill's natural scenery. The house will be three stories high, and contain 27 rooms. It will be thoroughly modern, and of beautiful architecture. Mr. Dickerson who is a Greenfield man, is now in the ground superintending the work of clearing the hill of its trees. For thousand fruit trees will be set out as soon as this work is completed. RAMBLE BRINGS LONG TERM Frenchman Explores German Innocently—Seized and Sent to Prison for High Treason Frankfort-on-Main.—A broken old man of 70, has been admitted to the Luneville almshouse as an "urgent case." His health is shattered, he is penniless, and has not a friend in the world. But 15 years ago M Pierron was a respected citizen of Luneville, a commercial traveler in a good position, with a wife and son. Being in Coblentz one day he rambled quite innocently around the fortifications. The German authorities stopped him, and on examining his papers, found him to be an officer of the French territorial army. The next day Pierron was summarily condemned in 15 years' imprisonment for high treason. He served his sentence for two hours in the Magdenburg fortress while he languished in jail his wife died and his son was killed in the Madagascar war. This sad case is an example of the rigor with which many guards her frontier LAVA IS LATEST VEGETABLE Gourmets Welcome It and Doctors See Seal of Approval Upon Its Consumption. London.—The latest addition to the already comprehensive range of vegetables which now grace the tables of the gastronomical cognoscentes is lava pronounced "lay-va," and served hot with roast mutton, instead of or in addition to the time-honored red currant jelly. Lava, when served, looks like spainch, save that the rich emerald that of spinach is replaced by a mingled deep green and amber Lava is a marine legume and is found among the wild rocks of Scotland's iron-bound coast. It grows at the water's edge in long, wavy fronds, and when in the sea displays a brilliance of beryl and ruby. It is purveyed by the fishmongers, by whom it is put through a course of maceration in weak brine. When served from the hands of a chef, it is flavored with lemon. Gourniness welcome lava as a highly palatable and very nutritious recruit to the table, and physicians classify it as a valuable diuretic. Anti-Hazing Law is Passed The Ohio senate has passed the anti- hazing bill which originated in the house, and it has gone to the governor for his signature. The bill provides that any student of any university or school, public or private, found guilty of hazing shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisonment for not more than-six months in jail, or both. The heads of instructors of schools who knowingly permit hazing are amenable to a fine of not exceeding $100 BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Leave Station, New Jersey ave & C st. ROYAL BLUE LINE. Trains "Every other hour on the odd hour." eph Diner, Pullman Parlor. Buffet, Parlor 5 Hr.Train Diner and Pullman Parlor Diner and Pullman Par- Diner and Pullman Par- "Royal Limited." All Coaches to Philadelph Diner and Pullman Parlor Coaches to Philadelphia. Steepers. A nc. cpm. £7.00. £9.00 ttt.002.m 3 cpm. v Hour on the Hour. more with Pullman Service. oek 7 5. 50, 6. 30, 7. 00, 7. 20, 8. 00 10. 00, 12. 00 m, 12. 00 m nooy 20. 00, 3. 00, 4. 00, 4. 50, 5. 30 8. 00, 10. 00, 11. 50 p, 11. 50 p 9. 00, 12. 00, 18. 00, 10. 00, 10. 00 5. 90, 6. 30, 8. 00, 10. 00 STWARD. HAOO AND NORTHWBST. NNATI. ST. LOUIS ANI. LOUISVILL. m 4 p m. 12 45 night. ATT. BERG AND. 9 130. m. and CHELMSON 10.05 a.m. * 5.30 p.m. CHELMSON 18.35 am * 14.05 $5.00 p.m. M SWAPOLIS, see k days 72 o. 3. m. 15 noon, 4.45, 6.00p.m. Sundays 8:30 a.m., and 5.30 p.m. RAY AYLKTON * 40.5 m. Tu ghparlor FREDERICK * 10.35, $9.15, $9.65, $11.00 a.m. 10.05 p.m. HAVER TOWN, 11.05 a.m. and 15.00 M MOVY TOWN, 11.05 a.m. * 9.35, $9.15 a.m. 11.30 p.m. BATHER-MAGG and way points * 18.35 a.m. * 12.50, $11.15, $13.00 * 6.15, $10.45, $11.30 p.m. WAY NOTION JUNCTION and way point a.m. * 12.50, $11.00, $15.30 p.m. Luggage called for and checked from hotel inside by Union Transfer Company on elevator at airport offices, 619 Pennsylvania ave. New York avenue and Fifteenth and station. K. K. Dist. Pass Agt BALTIMORE AND OHIO TERMINAL AT TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK CITY. All passenger trains of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad to and from New York now have direct ferry connection 42rd Street Terminal, in addition Liberty Street, the South Ferry Terra-l having been discontinued. Twenty-third Street is the most popular terminal of the great metropolis because of its convenience to the hotel, secure and shopping district. In the recent remodeling of the terminal building a glass-raised canopy was constructed after feet wide, under which the town car of the 14th, 19th, 28th and 29th Street lines pass, so that passengers are protected from the weather moving the ferry house, and also avoid the annoyance of street traffic. All baggage destined to New York City will be delivered to 23rd Street unless distinctly marked "Liberty Street," or otherwise. A complete electric cab service has been established for the transportation of passengers and baggage at very reasonable rate. The importance of 23rd Street is most explicitly brought to attention in the urgent number of the Book of the Lord Blue published by the passenger department of the Baltimore & Ohio, under the title "Into the Heart of Washington" the interest centers within it is 23rd street, Fifth avenue, Broadway. Full page photographs of unusual detail present a most vivid picture of this most interesting city. Seal cents for copy to D. B. Martin Manager Passenger Traffic, R. O R. B., Baltimore, Md. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. market hand description may go on the back in receivable. COMMUNICA- HANDBOOK on Patents for bearing patents. such Muna & Co. receive but charge, in the Scientific American. When looking for good shoes, don't leave out Richardson's fine shoe store at 1229 Penna ave., N. W. He is carrying one of the finest line of men's shoes that ever was put upon a counter in this city. Mr. Richards is a Washington way, and if your shoes are not what he says they are, take them back. You don't have to wait to bear from the firm out of the city. The firm this city, at 1229 Pennsylvania avenue, N. W. 15 50 1.5 Ley de Ayuntamiento. Valores predicados y notificados por el Ayuntamiento. THE BEE AND McCALL'S GREAT FASHION MAGAZINE for one year for $2.00. COUFON. Editor Bee:— Find enclosed two dollars. Send to my address below The Bee and McCall's Fashion Magazine for one year. No..... Street..... Town or City.... BUY THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE Before You Purchase Any Other Write THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY ORANGE, MASS. Many Sewing Machines are made to sell regardless of quality, but the "New Home" is made to wear. Our guaranty never runs out. We make Sewing Machines so suit all conditions of the trade. The "New Home" stands at the head of all High-grade family sewing machines Richard L. Baltimore, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW OFFICE: 310 4% Street, S. W. Washington, D. C A JEWELRY STORE IS THE BEST PLACE TO GET XMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS. And Voight's, 725 7th street, is the best jewelry store at which to make your purchases. Our stock and prices are so varied that every pocketbook is sure to be suited. We have many inexpensive but dainty little novelties here which will make excellent gifts. We do all engraving free, and will lay aside your purchase upon payment of a small de- posit. Every price below has the ring of a trie bargain. Gentlemen's 20-year gold-filled American stem winders, $11. Gentlemen's solid gold signet rings, $3.50 up. Ladies' diamond brooches, $5.50 to $1, 000. Diamond earrings, $15 to $500. Solid gold sacred hearts, 75c. Rosaries in emerald, ruby, pearl, garnet, sapphire, opal, topaz, bloodstone, and jade, $2 up. High-grade prayer-books, $1 up. We are showing an artistic line of gilt clocks, cut glass, silverware, umbrellas, &c. Also a large line of china, imported from Austria, Prussia, Limoges, Wurt-temburg and Bohemia. We make a specialty of prize cups, $5 up. HIRING, LIVERY AND SALE STABLE Carriages hired for funerals, parties, balls, receptions, etc. Horses and carriages kept in first class style. Satisfaction guaranteed Business at 1132 Third street, N. W Main Office Branch at 222 Street, Alexandria, Va. Telephone for Office, Maid. 1727 Telephone Call for Stable, Main 1482-5. OUR STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY. Where I can accommodate 50 horse- Call and inspect our new and moderate caskets and investigate our methods of doing first-class work. 1132 Third street, N. W. J. H. DABNEY, Pup. FRANKHUME. Wholesale Grocer. Agent for the District of Columbia for LIPTON'S renowned COFFEES and TEAS. OLU STAG Whiskey. The sole agent for the Artisan Cigars made in Porto Rico The best and cheapest cigar made. TERMS CASH: Interest charged after 30 days. 454 Pennsylva Bet. 4-1-26 R. L. Mi FUNERAL DIRECT Coffins can be shopped to any par graph orders. Your patronage se and my stock second to none. Fin occasions. CARRIAGES FOR HIRE FOR Office, Warerooms, 516 Phone Connection. S.H.H UNDERTAKERS 1715 14TH St., Satisfactory prices and service Special rates to subscribers of Thirty years' Pennsylvania Ave. Set. 4-1-2&6Sts. N. S. L. Middleton FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND LIVERY can be shopped to any part of the State upon orders. Your patronage solicited. My prices are back second to none. Fine carriages and polite AGES FOR HIRE FOR ALL OCCASION Office, Warerooms, 516 Eighth St., Southeast. Connection. Satisfaction S.H. HINES UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMER 1715 14TH St., Northwest. Story prices and service guaranteed to all. Rates to subscribers of THE BEE. Thirty years' experience. or furnished. Telephone 454 Pennsylvania Ave., R. L. Middleton. FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND LIVERYMAN. Coffins can be shopped 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 driyers for all occasions. ```markdown ``` Funeral parlor furnished. QUEERCHECK TO PNEUMONIA Patient's Condition Bettered by Leap from Hospital Window to Portico in Pyjamas. New York.—Theron Brown is better now. He was suffering from pneumonia in the city hospital at Newark and was delirious when the nurse left him for a moment to fill an ice bag. Brown is a negro, 27 years old. He was apparently in a bad way and urgent care was necessary in his case, but when the nurse's back was turned he dived through a third-story window and landed on his head on the roof of a portico. He was momentarily stunned, but revived and jumped 15 feet to the court, landing on the concrete pavement. Then he ran through Fairmount street to Cabinet street, where he was overtaken by Night Watchman Peter Clark, who led him back to the hospital. Brown was clad only in hospital pyjamas and his feet were bare. The temperature outdoors was 15 degrees above zero. His temperature a few minutes before the plunge was 104 and when he was returned to bed it was RIDER No M untu you We ship to anyons on Finest gu 1905 M with Coast RIDER AGENTS W No Money Reu until you receive and approve o We ship to Ten Days Fri anyone on Finest guaranteed 1905 Models $10 t with Coaster - Brakes and Pun RIDER AGENTS WANTED No Money Required until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyons on Ten Days Free Trial Fineest guaranteed 1905 Models $10 to $24 with Coaster - Brakes and Punctureless Tires. 1903 & 1904 Models $7 to $12 Best Makes..... Any make or model you want at one-third usual price. Choice of any standard tires and best equipment on all our bicycles. Strongest guarantee. We SHIP ON APPROVAL C. O. D. to any one without a cent deposit and allow 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL before purchase is binding. 500 Second Hand Wheels $3 to $8 taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. all makes and models, good as new..... a bicycle until you have written for our FASTORY PROTEES AND FREE TRIAL OFFER. Tires, equipment, sandies and sporting goods of all kinds, at half regular price, in our big free Sunday Catalogue. Contains a world of useful information. Write for us. PUNCTURE-PROOF TIRES $4.75 PER PAIR Regular price $8.50 per pair. To introduce $ we will Sell You a Sample Pair for Only 4.75 NAILS, TACKS OR GLASS WON'T LET OUT THE AIR NO MORE TROUBLE from PUNCTURES Result of 15 years experience in tire making. No danger from THORNS, OAOTUS, PANS, NAMS, TAOKS or GLASS. Serious punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can be vulcanized like any other tire. EASY RIDING, STRONG, BURABLE, SELF HEALING FULLY. COVERED by PATENTS BEWARE OF IMMUTATIONS Send for Catalogue "T." showing all kinds and makes of tires at $0.00 per pair and up also Coaster-Brakes. Built-up Wheels and Bicycles-Sundries at Nail the special prices. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D." This tire will collate any other make-soft, elastic and easy Riding. We will ship C. O. B. on APPROVAL. We will allow a cash discount of 55 (thereby making the price $4.50 per pair) if you send full cash with orders. Tires to be returned at our expense if not satisfactory on examination. MEAD CYGLE CO., Dept. "J.L." CHIOAGO, ILL. ania Ave., &6Sts. N. W. ddleton, VECTOR AND LIVERYMAN. Part of the State upon reliable tele- plicited. My prices are the cheapest carriages and polite drivers for all FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Eighth St., Southeast. Satisfaction Guaranteed. HINES, AND EMBALMERS. Northwest. guaranteed to all. The Bee. experience. Telephone, North 1595. FEARED TO TELL INCIDENT. Bobbed, Lew Wallace's Aged Cousin . Walked One Hundred and Thirty Miles. Iowa City, Ia.—Footsore and penniless, William Mories, of Bloomington, Ill., 95 years old and a first cousin of Gep. Lew Wallace, arrived here after walking the greater part of the 130 miles between Des Moines and Iowa City. Despite the fact that he owns nearly 240,000 acres of land in Texas and a fine residence in Bloomington, the old hero of the Mexican war, who had been robbed of his traveling funds and watch in Des Moines, chose to make his way to friends near Kaloma, Ia., and seek and from them to take him home rather than call upon his wife and daughter there for assistance and let it be known that he had been robbed. Morley was an intimate friend of nearly every president of the United States since the Mexican war, was one of the three delegates to the world's congress of religions at the Columbian expedition and held the same position at the congress at St. Louis. AGENTS WANTED Money Required receive and approve of your bicycle. Ten Days Free Trial granted medals $10 to $24 after Brakes and Punctureless Tires. Congress Votes Money for Monument to German Baron Who Aided Revolutionary Patriots. Utica, N. Y.—The fact that an appropriation has been made by congress for a monument to Baron Frederick William Steuben, to be erected at Washington, and the selection of the sculptors, Albert Jaegers, Adolph S. Weinman and Henry Herring, to compete for the honor of making the design, become of interest to German residents of this country who a few years ago were engaged in erecting a monument over Baron Steuben's grave, in the town of Steuben, Oneida county. They finally succeeded in this object, and when the monument is ```markdown ``` BARON STEUBEN'S MONUMENT. (Memorial Which Was Placed Over His Grave at Remsen, Oneida Co., N. X.) BARON STEUBEN'S MONUMENT. (Memorial Which Was Placed Over His Grave at Remsen, Oneida Co., N. Y.) completed in Washington it will be the second one to this great general, who gave so willingly of his talents and means to the struggling colonists in their war of the revolution. After the close of the revolutionary war Baron Steuben spent considerable time in New York, living on a farm that was then in what was known as Jones' Woods, near the East Fifty-seventh street of the present day. After long delays on the part of congress to pay him his salary, a grant was finally made to him of a tract of 16,000 acres of land that came to be known as Steuben Patent, and was situated in the northern part of this county. Here the baron built a small, plain house, furnishing it with his camp utensils and the remains of his military chest, and the closing years of his life were mostly passed in this place. He died in 1794. He had often requested that he be buried under one of his own trees, and that his grave should be left to become overgrown with such shrubs and trees as might spring up naturally. In 1872 several German societies in New York city erected a monument over the grave. This monument stands directly over the grave of the dead warrior, and bears only the word "Steuben" as an inscription. The dense wood upon all sides give it a strange appearance, and the visitor is struck with the loneliness of the surroundings. GET A CADETSHIP. Manly Lawton, Son of Gen, Lawton, Wine Appointment to West Point. Lexington, Ky.—Manly Lawton, eldest son of the late Maj. Gen. Henry M. Lawton, has been appointed to a cadetship in the United States military academy West Point by President Roosevelt. Few boys entering West Point can lay claim to a military record such as that which this young man has made. MANLY LAWTON (Son of Late Gen. Lawton Who Has Been Appointed to Cadetship at West Point.) But circumstances gave him the opportunity of tasting real war when but a mere lad and it served to show the true qualities of the soldier which he possessed and had much to do with awakening his ambitions for a military career. At the tender age of 11 when most boys are being cherished and coddled by their mothers in the home and shielded from every hardship, this boy was on the firing line and under fire, and he never flinched, but shared in the hardships and dangers with true heroism that would have done credit to many an older soldier. He went to the Philippines with his father and served in various companies until his father's death in December 1899. Immediately upon his arrival at Manila and before his father was given a command this boy went to Gen. MacArthur to the front. Soon after the death of his father young Lawton returned to this country with his mother and sisters and they have since made their home at Ponce Valley. After his return here he enlisted in the First Battalion artillery, Kentucky state guards. NEW TYPE OF AIRSHIP BROOKLYN CLERK SAYS HE HAS SOLVED AIR-NAVIGATION Inventa Machine That Is Winged Like a Bird and Has a "Pulling Propeller" in Front Instead Brooklyn. After 15 years' patient study and experimenting Charles W. Clark, a clerk employed in the installation department of the Edison Electric Illuminating company, of this city, has, he believes, brought to perfection a machine for the navigation of the air of practical utility. It differs essentially from all flying machines invented up to this time, the nearest approach to it in principle being Prof. Langley's aeroplane, on which the government spent $70,000, and Israel Lulow's Lox-shaped kite, which came to a disastrous ending at the foot of West Seventy-second street a few weeks ago. The most radical departure made by Clark is his entire elimination of the gas bag, or hot-air bag, method of gaining and maintaining an elevation, and therein is the only suggestion of the aeroplane principle. He calls through the air precisely as a great bird, with outstretched wings, and motion is maintained by the revolution of a device at the front of his machine. It cannot properly be called a propeller, because it draws the machine forward instead of pushing it. The construction, of this "propeller" is Clark's secret, which he is confident will solve the whole problem of aerial navigation. The flying machine proper consists of two large flanges, or wings of bamboo frame work, covered with canvas. They have an area of 200 square feet each, and instead of being flat as in the aeroplane are contours on their upper surface. The concavity is just like the hollow under the wing of a bird and the cushion of air which fills THE CLARK AIRSHIP. (Machine Whose Birth Like Wings and "Pulling Propeller" Are Its Distinctive Features.) these cups is the sustaining power of the machine, sufficient, as the inventor has demonstrated to his own satisfaction, to keep it afloat even when the motor is not in operation. From the rear of the machine projects a three-finger rubber, controlled by slender steel cables, that lead to the hands of the operator, who is seated on a saddle, like a bicycle saddle. This rudder is the most important part of the mechanism, apart from the "pulling propeller." It has four functions—steering to the right or the left, and lifting or lowering the forward part of the machine. When the forward edge of the wings are elevated, while the machine is in motion, the air rushes into their concavity, and the machine rises; when they are depressed the machine descends. The motive power is furnished by a 100-pound gasoline engine amidships, in front of the operator. The bamboo frame and canvas weigh 100 pounds, so with an aeronaut weighing 150 pounds in charge, the total weight to be lifted is 250 pounds. "I am satisfied beyond a shadow of a doubt," said Mr. Clark to a New York World reporter, "that I have mastered the secret. The balloon as a lifting force is of course no longer considered. I gave that up 15 years ago. I got my first idea by skimming a thin sea shell on the beach. I saw that when it was skimmed cup down, it rose in the air until its force was exhausted and then fell. It occurred to me that if I could construct a machine on the principle of the sea shell and could continue the flight, I could make it rise as long as I could keep it in motion. "To satisfy myself that the principle of skimming the sea shell was correct, I built a machine of bamboo and canvas, in Dudley, N. J., and without any motor at all was able to ascend by having three or four boys pull the machine along the ground with a cord. So long as they kept the machine in motion I could steer it in any direction and go up or come down as I liked. "That convinced me I had struck the right principle and I went ahead on the propeller until I perfected it. Now I am satisfied I can sail through the air at high speed and keep away from the earth as long as the fuel for the motor lasts." Race Suicide Inefficient Race suicide has not prevented the human family from making a fair showing, for it now numbers 1,450,000,000 noses. Of Papa Adam's children 250,000,000 no naked. 700,000,000 clothes only the middle art of the body, while 100,000,000 are accused to entrap the whole body with some kind of armament, although in summer the women in the last class are somewhat inclined to revert to aboriginal styles of dressing the body rather than protection from the inclementenies of weather and the observation of man. METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. Mn. Norman's Financial Report. Rev. M. W. D. Norman, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, has submitted his financial report from the date of April 9, 1905, to April 9, 1906. Dr. Norman has made wonderful progress since he tooil charge of the Metropolitan Church, and everywhere he is receiving the highest commendations. He is one of the most eloquent divines in the city and a man of the highest integrity. Following is the report which shows the great progress he has made since he to charge a year ago. Received ..... 235 Dismissed by letter ..... (none) Dismissed by death ..... 12 Total net increase ..... 223 Occasional Services Visits to sick ..... 200 Visits to others ..... 305 Total Visits ..... 505 Mariages ..... 9 Funerals ..... 21 Special sermons ..... 15 Special lectures ..... 2 Finances—Collections. April 9, 1905 $ 740.90 May 342.29 June 268.30 July 246.55 August 217.84 September 234.80 October 400.71 November 1,907.97 December 288.88 January 279.69 February 311.88 March 217.92 April 9, 1906 112.40 Total $5,600.14 Missionary and Poor Saint Fund 178.75 Sunday School 181.68 Total collected from all sources $5,960.57 Disbursements. Salaries $1528.75 Floating debt 753.05 Incidentals 627.01 Repairs 549.01 Bonded Debt and Interest 1857.00 Miscellaneous 466.97 Total paid out $5,781.79 Balance in hand $1 78.76 AMONG THE ODD FELLOWS. The funeral of Louder Shields, a P. N. F. and one of the oldest members of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 1365, G. U. O. of O. F., took place from the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church, D street southwest, at 1 o'clock p.m Sunday last. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. P. A. Wallace, D.D., assisted by Rev. W. J. Howard, D.D., pastor of Zion Baptist Church. Remarks eulogistic of the life and character of the deceased were made by Rev. Jeffries, pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. Church The officers and a large number of the members of the Lodge, who had charge of the funeral, followed the remains from the late residence of the deceased to the church. After the funeral the burial committee, composed of the Lodge officers, took the remains to Harmony Cemetery, whence the burial rites of the Orden were performed. The deceased leaves a sister and three children, who have the sincere sympathy of the members of the Lodge and the many warm friends of the deceased. After serving a two months term on the jury in Criminal Count No. 2, of the Supreme Court of the District of one of the charter members of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 1365, resumed his vocation on the Pennsylvania Railnoad Company. Brother Parker is one of the most popular and widely known Odd Fellows in the District. P. N. F. Thomas L. Jones, of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 1365, and a prominent member of the District bar, will deliver the oration on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the Walker Memorial Baptist Church at 3 p.m. on Sunday, the 29th inst. The cornerstone will be laid under the auspices of the Executive Committee of the District Grand Lodge. The District Grand Officers made their official visit o Rose Hill Lodge, No. 1726, Thursday evening of last week. They were greeted by a large number of members of the Lodge and visitors. P. N. F. T. E. Hill presided, and P. N. F. Minor acted as master of ceremonies. The addresses of D. G. Master J. H. Coleman, Deputy D. G. Master R. F. Williams and D. G. Director G. W. Thomas were instructive and heartily received. The Acting N. G. T. E. Hill responded to the addresses of the official visitors. Among the visiting brethren who made brief addresses were Past D. G. Director George R. Rhone. After the Lodge adjourned a splendidollation was served. Past D. G. Master W. C. Martin has been specially invited by Miss Della M. Shaw, president of the Missionary SoFirst and H streets southwest, to deliver an address before the mass-meeting to be held at that church at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Miss Shaw is doing much timely work in the missionary field, which is exceedingly large in the District. D. G. Director G. W. Thomas is looking "tip-top" these days. Wonder if he has asked the D. G. M. to be his THOMAS WALKER, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Holding a Probate Court. No. 13,109, Administration. This is to give notice: That the subscriber, of the Dsitrict of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia Letters Testamentary on the estate of Nellie Tyler, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber on or before the 28th day of March, A. D. 1907; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. $ ^{0} $ Given under my hand this 17th day of April, 1900. Attest: W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Thos. W. Walker, Attorney. YOU and your friends are cordially invited to inspect the new and original series of post cards now on the market, devoted to and illustrating the progress of the Negro Race. Authorized pictures of such leaders as Douglas, DuBois, Washington and Dunbar; realistic views of the foremost educational institutions, and gratifying glimpses into the business life of the Race are shown, being reproduced in the latest photographic style. Prices 2 1/2-5-10 cts. A fine assortment mailed to any address for 50 cents. Agents wanted CLAIRVOYANT AND ASTROLOGIST Life from eradle. Given names in full of those you have or will marry, marriage to those you desire, united those separated (never falls). If you want to the outcome of any undertaking in business, social or domestic life, elicitation, dis- ENGLISH. 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This is a record for any attraction ever given at Convention Hall, but if the people only knew that Alyssinia was only going to use half of the hall there would be a genuine rush for seats. All that get shut out would be their own fault, as the present arrangements will only seat two thousand people. Williams and Walker want the public to see this production and view it from all parts of the house, as this show is positively the best that colored people ever produced. You can be seated in any part of the house that you want to pay for, from box back to gallery. It is proposed to run 5-car trains between Chicago and New York in ten hours on the new line to be built by the Chicago and New York Electric Air Line Railroad. For the week ending April 21, 44,303 aliens arrived in New York from Europe. (No wonder times are so hard in the United States.) WILLIAMS and Walker in "Abyssinia." 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INSURANCE COMPANIES ve Benefit Asso efit Association Protective Benefit Association DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Capital Stock Fully Paid In. We insure any person from 3 to 60 years of age if in good health, without regard to sex. by person from 3 to 60 years of age if sex. and accident benefits varying from 750 to death benefit fund varying from $7,500. RESERVE FUND on hand for the HRED, thus putting it out of our power than LEGITIMATE, SAFE, SOURCAN deal with us with the firm assurances if you do your part. WANTED AT ONCE I have twenty Good Agents to represent the CONDUCTIVE BENEFIT ASSOCIATION STEADY EMPLOYMENT and secure territory. VICE: 609 F STREET, N. W. (First rd. Jack P. M. OFFICERS FOR THE FIRST president, vice-president, and vice-president, secretary, Boyd, treasurer, Williams, musical direc, medical director. 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