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PAPER POR THE PEOPLE. A FIRESIDE COMPANION. is true if you see it in THE BEE. fOL. XIV.NO. 49 What I Saw And Heard The trustees of Howard University may not select a president for several months. Prof. Moore who has made such a canvass for the presidency has succeeded in converting one trustee to him. There is but little hope of a colored man being president of Howard University. If a colored man had any chance of being president Dr. Grimkie would be the best man that could be selected. Prof. J. M. Gregory of the Bordentown Normal Training School, would make an excellent president. Aside from his great executive ability he is an educator. Mr. J. Milton Turner of Missouri is opposed to the nomination of Prof. W. T. Vernon. All Missouri colored men are opposed to each other, especially if one should happen to succeed. There are several pot house politicians in town who imagine that they are the proper persons to go to the next National Republican Convention. Just where they got such an idea, I am unable to state. Rev. S. L. Corrothers is being urged for the Bishopship of his denomination. Rev. Corrothers has made an excellent record since he has been in this city. The sudden death of Mr. Prioleau of the firm of Moore and Prioleau was more shock to the community. There are several bills introduced in Congress restoring to the people the elective franchise. But just whether any of these bills will become a law I am unable to state. There are several ministerial unions in this city. They meet on different dates. Now what are these unions doing to improve the condition of the people belonging to their respective denominations? The colored people in Virginia have no interest in the Jamestown Exposition. This is a white man's celebration, pure and simple. If the colored people want to take part because their ancestors landed there as slaves, so well and so good. I want to see the colored man independent in some things at least. I believe the Senate will confirm the nomination of Mr. Vernon before the month is out. I feel confident that the Senate will not allow itself to be influenced by irresponsible and prejudiced people. "ABYSSINIA" AND WILLIAMS AND WALKER COMPANY. AND WALKER COMPANY. The musical and amusement loving people of Washington owe a debt of gratitude to Washington-born Will Marion Cook for the splendid treat afforded them at Convention Hall this week by the magnificent presentation of "Abyssinia" through the medium of the celebrated (deservedly so) Williams and Walker Company. Coming at the end of an unusually musical season, following so closely upon the Coleridge-Taylor chorus, etc., etc., coupled with the opening of warm weather, the attendance is a remarkable tribute to its worth. One could not but be struck by the ensemble of the performance, which was acted, sung, danced, dressed and staged to perfection, showing the marked ability of collaborators and producers. We are somewhat critical here as to choruses, but our most eminent discriminators appear to have found nothing to cavil at as no fair comparison could be made between them and our own, owing to the very palpable differences in numbers and subjects. In the absence of librettos, and the acoustic difficulties of the hall, it was not easy to follow the thread of the story, but it was so well acted and sung that interest was easily maintained throughout and a fair general understanding conveyed. The audience appeared, while deeply attentive, somewhat unresponsive, as the performers thought, and yet that very point when understood was one of its greatest compliments. The fact of the matter is that the very large majority of the audience present went there expecting to see a more or less broad lot of so-called nec eccentricities, tied up with "oon songs" and the hyphenated mysteries of rag-time, and found themselves confronted by a "musical oddity," humorous, clean, delightfully pleasing to both eye and ear, and so were unable at once to readjust the focus of their ideas and set down intelligently to a thoroughly enjoyable, laughable yet refined entertainment. The more musical of the assemblage found great pleasure in the excellent music and voices of the choruses. The voices were remarkably fine and effective in all parts, well balanced, well trained and use with a vim that was truly refreshing, perhaps the most completely satisfying of these was the opening chorus of Scene 2, as connected by Wm. Marion Cook in person, the choruses seemingly being imbued by the nervous energy of the composer and conductor to a fairly inspired pre- The leading artists never overcrossed the line which divides comedy from buffoonery, nor did any other performer for a moment. I feel as if a word ought to be said of those delightful dancing girls, and confess to a little surprise that they have not been more featured. There is nothing "stagery" about them, none of that frozen smile, and self-conscious stiffness, but bright, supple and winning, they throw themselves heart and soul into the abandon of the dance as if they fully enjoyed the doing of it as much as we the looking on. The variety, appropriateness and freshness of the many costumes was truly remarkable and the fine staging of the scenes throughout worthy of all praise, the picture of the last scene particularly is one of great beauty, and the ensemble one to stay in one's memory long after. It will be understood that this writing is of generalizations only, time and space not allowing the taking up of individual mention. We wish them all the success they deserve; it is not possible to wish them more. ECHOES FROM THE BEE OR SOME BEE STINGS. Those Suffrage Meetings, Those politicians that do meet, To talk on negro voting, Had best be learning how to live, And start the loafers toting. BOOKER T. They tell us now that Booker T. Is leader of his race. He'd be much stronger if he'd but Put on a bolder face. THE TWO PARTIES. Republicans and Democrats have cut the negro off. The best thing then for him to do, is hunt another troff. IT IS TRUE. How does the busy Thomas T. improve each shining minnit? By whooping up for Booker T. because there's something in it. THE BLACK BON TONS. Those big bug high-toned colored folks that's trying to hide their face Had best come down a notch or two and help uplift their race. NEGRO MANHOOD. Be a man, protect your women, let no lander dwarf your will. Nokomis. By your actions you will force them either up or down the hill. Vivals now er ragein, fevers runnin high. Preachers all er shout'in, sinner yu mus die Members all er pray'in, ebberybody good, Ain't no Christian sin'in, wuden ef da cud. Part II. Vival time is over, birds begin ter sing, Eberybody lively, gittin in de ring, Preachers sellin tickets fer de scurshun bote, Christians and de sinners, all am gwine ter flate. Part III. It am sho'ly funny, way de people du, Singing an er shoutin, all de winter thru, Jn de spring an summer, yu kin take yo ease, Christians an de sinners, do je$ lak da plese. THE BUSY BEE. The Bee keeps buzzing all day long, the busy little thing, But passes every now and then to give its foes a sting. J. CONWAY JACKSON. THE COLORED PULPIT. Dr. Geo. H. Richardson was greeted by a large and intelligent audience last Sunday afternoon at Asbury Church, the occasion being a meeting of the Ep- worth. League. Prof. Spencer Green conducted the singing, which was very interesting. Dr. Geo. H. Richardson was the principal speaker, who took for his subject the colored preacher. He was both eloquent and logical. Mr. W. Calvin Chase and Lieut. Toomey also spoke. Miss Blanche Morgan, formerly of this city but now of New York, is in the city en route for Richmond, Va., to visit her mother. Miss Morgan is stopping at 1147 17th street, N. W. Mr. Steven B. Vaughn, of Augusta, Ga., is in the city the guest of Register J. W. Lyons! A paper entertainment will be given at the residence of Miss Mollie Young netx Monday evening, May 7, 1013 18th street, N. W. for the benefit of the Christian Endeavor Society. Mrs Hattie G. Overton and Miss Maria Jordon, with Miss Young constitute the committee. Mr. Arthur James, who was taken suddenly ill several weeks ago, is able to be out again. niversary Monday, April 16. Senator Platt will not seek re-election --- VISITING MUSICIANS GIVEN AN OVATION. The promenade concert of the Treble Clet Mandolin Club of Philadelphia Saturday evening last was a brilliant affair. Notwithstanding the many counter attractions of the Easter week and the inclement weather of the evening of their appearance a representative audience greeted the club upon its initial appearance in Washington. The appearance of the members of the club composed of young ladies elegantly attired in immaculate white, and the gentlemen in the conventional evening dress filling in the background of the stage, was a signal for an outburst of applause which lasted many minutes before the first number of the program could be rendered. The waltz "Dönauwellen" gave the club an opportunity for some excellent work which they performed to the delight of their auditors; the rendition "On Jersey Shores" was effective, the tempo and phrasing being all that could be wished for even from professionals. The attacks were made with skill and judgment. Mr. Marshall, the baritone soloist, possesses a voice of great flexibility and wonderful range, his renditions were superb. The "Vision Fugitive from the Opera Herodias, and Arieso from I Pagcalici deserve special RICHARD RICHARD BARTHOLT RICHARD BARTHOLDT. The Club appeared to a disadvantage in the difficult arrangement of the selection from DeKoven's Foxy Quiller, the first mandolins were a trifle weak and the tempo and harmony were not up to the requirements of the selection. The ensemble work of the club evinced persistent effort and careful training under the direction of Mr. Wm. H. Cole. The effects of the club as a whole left a pleasing memory and their many friends look forward to their return at soem future day. The members of the Order will be glad to learn that Mrs. M. A. Parker, the popular D. M. N. G., who has been ill for several days, is now improving. Lawyer T. L. Jones, P. N. F. Rising Sun Lodge 1365, delivered the oration on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the Walker Memorial Baptist Church, 13th street between U and V street, N. W., Sunday afternoon last. The exercises were largely attended and under the auspices of the Executive Committee of D. G. L. No. 20. The Washington Patriarchs No. 18, Capt. W. C. Gray commanding, and the Georgetown Patriarchie, Capt. Geo. T. Beason commanding, acted as the escort to the several subordinate lodges, D. G. Marshal W. M. Samuels commanding, in the march from the hall, 10 M street, to church. Those who took part in preliminary exercises were Rev. E. B. Gordon, pastor of the church, Rev. W. D. Jarvis, Rev. W. H. Brooks, Rev. J. C. Clark, Rev. J. A. L. Burke, Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, Rev. W. J. Robinson, Rev. R. Sayles and Mr. Jesse Taylor. The cornerstone was laid by the D. G. officers, Rev. L. D. Best, chaplain. At 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon memorial exercises on the life and character of several deceased members of Rising Sun Lodge No. 1365 will be held at Israel C. M. E. Church, corner 1st and B streets, N. W. PROF. W. S. MONTGOMERY. "Historical Sketch of Education for the Colored Race in the District of Columbia. A very comprehensive and interesting historical sketch of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia, by Assistant Superintendent of Schools Prof. W. S. Montgomery, has just come from the press. The sketch is embodied in the general report of the Board of Eduaction to the District Commissioners, and is found on page 99 of the report. It embraces the years 1870-1905, and is replete with interesting data and incidents relative to the early struggles of the schools, and the heroic sacrifices of Northern Christian teachers who came South to give their time and their lives to the cause of education for the slaves and the freedmen. Stripped of all attempts at dramatic effect (of which accusation, on so serious as subject, Prof. Montgomery is respectfully acquitted), a mere recital of the exciting and tragic events of those stirring times is theatrical enough to at once command eager attention and interest; but the masterful manner in which the Professor presents his array of acts, and the narration of each suc S. cessful or abortive effort in behalf of education, makes his production not only interesting, but in the highest degree edifying! Attention is called to the fact that our present system of public free schools is but the development of a system originally inaugurated by President Jefferson, et al, to promote a means of public education. President Jefferson, therefore, might very properly be styled "the father of our public free school system." Geo. Bell, Nicholas Franklin and Moses Liverpool, though uneducated ex-slaves, are given their mead of credit as being the pioneer builders and founders of the first schoolhouse for colored people. Supt. Montgomery, for convenience, divides his history into three periods—the pioneer period, or period of pay schools, extending from 1807 to 1862; the philanthropic period, from 1862 to 1868, and the public school period, from 1868 to the present time. At the beginning of the pioneer period there were present in the city of Washington less than 500 free colored people. For these the first school house was constructed. The stringency of the laws against education of slaves, and the penalties prescribed therefor, only added new zeal for learning. Mrs. Mary Billings, a noble English woman, proved a great benefactor to the free colored people of this period. She established and taught a school for them, in the absence of public support, and did much other charitable work. The free public school system really had its inception during the incumbency of John W. Prout, as the head of the H Street (Smothers) school, in 1825. Then follow some of the darkest days for the cause of education among the colored people in the District of Columbia. Hear Prof. Montgomery's account of it: "The helping hand and friendly word were withdrawn. . . The Christian did not so regard it, that we might at church closed its doors against colored children who had, in common with the whites, previously learned the lessons of the Sunday school together. In 1835 most of the colored schoolhouses were demolished or burned, text books, apparatus and furniture destroyed, as were likewise many of the churches. Mr. John F. Cook, Sr., who had followed Mr. Prout as the principal of the Smothers school, was forced to flee from the city for his life." The struggles for education, and the dramatic events just preceding the promulgation to "emancipation proclamation," were truly pathetic, but the spirit of patriotism and sacrifice were everywhere, and the cause of education was destined to not down. Prof. Montgomery pays a beautiful and richly-deserved tribute to Miss Myrtilla Miner, whom he describes as "an ambassadress of God, sent to hasten the triumph of right, truth and justice." It is a tale beautifully and tenderly told, and strikes the sympathetic chords of the heart from the time the reader begins the first page. Prof. Montgomery is to be commended for this excellent contribution to history, and the care and painstaking exhibited in its preparation. The varied experiences of the cause of education for the colored race in the District of Columbia read too much like the obstacles and struggles encountered by the race in its unparalleled fight for civil and political recognition in this country. When we consider, therefore, the present grand and firm status of education in the District and the country at large, notwithstanding the almost unsunmountable barriers and difficulties encountered in the earlier years, we take heart and encouragement, believing that the comparison and similarity of conditions are not to end here, and that the cause of civil and political justice will finally triumph, to the happiness and glory of the colored race. SYNONYMS FOR DRINK. Various Terms Applied to Drunkenness—Quaint and Curious Description of the Result of Over-Indulgence. From the Liquor Dealers' Journal. A correspondent writes as follows, regarding synonyms for drink: He is drunk, integrated, inebriated, tipsy, full, loaded, jagged fuddled, tight, top-heavy, stewed, screwed, half-shot, half-gone, overcome, overtaken, primed, afflicted, disgusted, obfuscated, crapulous, elevated, exhilarated, genial, happy, mellow, muzzy, soaked, soused, bemused, chock-ablock, coxy-foxy. "He is scammered, maggott, sewed up, mug-eye, lushy, squiff, swipe, podgy, cock-eyed, borey-eyed, bowsed, muddled, whittled, hazy, foggy, dizzy dazed, tangled, stunned, moony, balmy, dopy, besotted, ossified, petrified, paralyzed, dead drunk. "He has a glorious (or elegant) jag on, a load on, a skate on, a bun on, an branmigan on, a shine on, a still on an edge on, a beauton, a bird on, a skinful on, he has looked on the wine when it was red, he has pankett of the cup that cheers, he has got a cup (a drop) too much, he fell off the water cart; he gagged a little of Paddy's eyewater (or of red eye he has shed a tear. "He has been crooking his elbow, has been hugging the bar, has been hitting the hard stuff, has been dallying with the black bottle (has been tippling, toppling, guzzling, swilling, swigging, etc.), he has more sail than ballast, he has his main brace well spliced, he has an applejack gait, he has a bee in his bonnet, he can't see a hole in a ladder, he has the sun in his eye, he has got wheels in his head from fumes in his stomach, he can't lie down without holding on, he has got the gravel rash, he has got marbles in his mouth, he has lapped the gutter, and is dead to the world. "He is half seas over, three sheet in the wind, on his beam ends, under the influence of the weather, in his cups, in his spots, over the bay, in the clouds, up in the air, off his trolley, off his nut, off his base, he has been out with the boys, off on a bat, on a drunk, on a spree, on a bender, on a racket, on a tear, on the map, on the ran-tan, on the ree-haw, on the rampage, he is feeling his cats, he is full of mountain dew (whiskey), full of the cream of the valley (gin), full of dope, full of slops, full of forty rooze, full of Jersey lightning, full of tanglefoot, full of bug juice, he is as full as a tick. "He is as full as a goat, full as a bed bug, he is as drunk as a lord, drunk as a piper, drunk as a boiled owl, drunk as Davie's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, he is weak (wabbly) on his pins, all mops and brooms, and got the howling cats (Katzenjammer); but he takes another hair of the dog that bit him; puts puts another nail in his coffin. READ THE DER The Bee GREAT ADVERTISING MEDICAL TRY IT! Do you ever resemble a man? Do you speak familiar rite advertised? Do you ever broaden? Read and advertise on THE BEE Paragraphic News The recent decision of the Supreme Court is that Springfield, Hl., "has no right to set aside a separate school for colored children." This is the fifth time the decision of the lower court has been reversed. Rev. M. W. Norman of the District of Columbia, is expected to deliver an address at the commencement exercises at Roanoke Institute, May 9th. It is reported that the A. M. E. Conference, which met in Richmond, Va., endorsed the actions of the Negro Developing Company. The police have issued warning to the public to guard against two men representing themselves as collectors for the San Francisco relief fund. Gustav F. Sorrow, vice president of the Bank of America of Chicago, was arrested last Sunday night at the Hotel Marseilles at the request of the chief of police of Chicago. John Olden, an aged man known to travelers on the B. & O. Railroad as a peddler of pies and cakes at the Waverton Station, was shot and killed at Frederick, Md., last week. It is stated that C. H. Rason has resigned the premiership of West Australia and has been appointed agent general at London for Perth Colony. Michael Janowek and his wife who were charged with torturing their two children, four and six years old, with hot iron pokers, were held to the Criminal Court at Chicago in honds of $10,000 each. Secretary Bonaparte was confined to his room at his residence in Baltimore, Md., with an acute attack of indigestion this week. Phillip M. Smith, colored, a clerk in the dead letter office of the Post Office Department was given a hearing before United States Commissioner A. S. Taylor last Monday morning and was held for the action of the grand jury on a charge of embezzlement. 1,350 men instead of 2,500 men were sent to San Francisco to reinforce those that were there. Several villages in Saxony felt four earthquake shocks last week. No damage was done, but the inhabitants were badly frightened. Mary Koslovskais, the leader of the Mariavits, who poses as "Mother of God," says that she had a vision and saw that the war with unbelieving Catholics will continue for three years. The British steamer Havana was sumk in Halifax harbor, N. S., last week by the steamer Strathcona. Joaquin Alvarez, a Spaniard, who shot and killed Herman Pierce and Hans Buschon February 26th during a quarrel at a sailor's boarding house in Philadelphia, Pa., has been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. Overseer Jane Dowie, wife of the deposed head of the Christian Catholic Church, Chicago, visited her husband last week at the Auditorium Annex. Baron Kroupensky, first secretary of the Russian embassy at Berlin has been appointed councilor of the embassy of Russia here. John Slater, who stood imprisoned two hours last Monday in a compartment of the partially constructed tunnel under the river at Chicago in which water was pouring, had become insane when taken out. Chief Justice of Canada Sir Henry Tacherau has resigned. Mr. Alfred Walter at Norfolk, Va., became president of the Seaboard Air Line railway last Tuesday. The case of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah was discussed last Tuesday by the Senate Committee on Privileges, but did not reach any conclusion. Chas. L. Stinson, formerly a steel manufacturer of Rutland, Va., was killed last week by a Wisconsin Central passenger train at River Forest, a suburb of Chicago, Ill. Eleven were killed and several injured in a tornado at Bellevue, Texas, last week. Thieves stole the cornerstone of the North Pasadena Methodist Church at Pasadena. Cal., last Sunday night. The stone weighed about 300 pounds and contained about $10 in coin and valuables. At the laying of the cornerstone of the new House of Representatives Office Building the President made one of his stirring speeches, etc. Major Sylvester, of Washington, D. C., has been honored by the third election as president of the International Association of Police Chiefs, which held its session at Hot Springs, Ark. Harmony Lodge of Odd Fellows of Alexandria, Va., celebrated its 60th anat. the expiration of his term in 1909. Not I The Trust PURITY ICE CO. PuritylceCompany-cor5th andL PARKER,BRIDGET&CO. PARKER,BRIDGET&CO. Among friends and acquaintances the question is often asked, "Who made your suit?" that is, of course, when the suit is meritorious enough to call for comment. One of the best advertisements we have is when our patrons answer the question and tell the cost of the suit. "Peddling People" is a new book for the additions. By Mrs. Arabella Virginia Chase. NEW SUBJECTS. Every division, which are twelve (12) in discussed in a new way. 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Copenhagen.—Dr. Hasselbach, though considering further disclosures on the Pinsen ray treatment at the moment premature and urgitely, admits striking out on new and independent lines and has become convinced that the light treatment is effective in heart disease and affections of the nervous system Dr. Hasselbach, after experimenting on his own perfectly normal organs, next experimented on two doctors. Both of these were complete invalids, one suffering from angina pectoris and the other from a nervous affection of the heart. 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 amot measurements has not yet been concluded. A hospital for the light ray treatment, provided with 30 beds, will be ready here for the admission of patients in a year's time. RATTLERS UNDER HEARTH. Most of Reptiles Unearthed—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 neighborhood. Mrs. Welborn scalded the reptiles, and, with a pair of tongs, lifted them out and placed them in a row for display. For several weeks Mrs. Welborn had complained that the house was haunted. Friends shared this belief 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 sanguily 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 rattlers ever placed on exhibition in Kentucky. Has Longest Legs in State. Charles Coy, of Naveslink, N. J., be the longest legs of any person in the state. He is but 17 years old, yet is ever six feet tall. His body is unusually short, and his legs are unusually long. He requires a pair of trousers that inches the inside seam of the leg. With all this height Coy is a lightweight, 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 cocktails and highballs. THE NEW YORKER PURE SPRING water. 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AND PENNTYLVANIA AVENUE, NORTHWEST EAD-TO-FOOT CUTFITTERS IF YOU WALTA PLACE To Board ADVERTISE HOLME'S Hotel 333 Vt. Ave., S. W. For The Best Afro-American Accommodation in the District. -European And American Bar served with fine Wines. Imported Brand and pure old Rye Whiskey Best Line Cigars Good Room and 5 & 10c Lodging 50. 75 & $1.00 Comfortably heated by steam. Give us a Call— JAMES OTTOWAY HOLMES Prop Washington, D; C Louis J: Kessel Importer of and Wholesale Dealer in WINES AND whiskies Sole Owner of the..... .... Following Brands: Private Stock, Old Reserve, Hermit Oxford, Tremont 425 TENTH SREET. N. W. Telephone—Mam—56 FRATERNAL. I. O. N. I. C. of A., fraternal, meets at Lecompte, La., the second and third Tuesday nights in each month. R. E. Pickens, W. P. P. J. E. Dailey, W. C. S. I. O. I. N. I C. of A. F., No. 127, meets at its office, 608 Bolton street. east, the first and third Monday nights in each month. Rev. S. T Shephard, worthy president. T. P Haywood, W. C. S. Ocie 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. Fraternat 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.; Chas. Dupar, F. V. P.; A. T. Finley, W. C. S. Harmony Department, No. 71, meet WOULD KILL PLANT. 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 luxurant, 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 bloom 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. MOCK UNION WAS NO JOKE 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 890 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, aged 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 Prosecutor Lloyd's attention will be called to the case. Miss Shindled is about 50 years old, while Currens is not yet 50. SHOT A 5,000-FOOT CHUTE 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 as glass by the wood sliding down it, has a sharp descent and then rises to allow the wood to shoot up into the air and fall into a pile. The girl crawled up into the trough and was coming down feet first when men at the base of the mountain heard her cries. Like a shot out of a cannon the girl left the trough and dropped 20 feet into the arms of Foreman Michael Tlerney, frightened but uninfured. Man, 103, to Wed Girl of 23. Out in Colorado a man who claim to be 103 years old is going to marry a lady 25 years old. She must be one of those women who like to gather up and exhibit family relics. ARRANGES OWN FUNERAL South Bend, Ind.—"When I am dead and ready to be laid away in the long last sleep, I want to be buried in a plain, reough coffin covered with blackork bark. I have been a Democrat all my life, and I want men who have been lifelong Democrats to be my pallbearers. I don't care who is selected to preach the funeral sermon, but it is my request that John A. Hartmen say what he can that has been good in me during by deline, and in the event that I should outlive Mr. Hartmen then I want J. B. Stoll to do this for me." The above is the strange request made by Jacob Martin, a pioneer resident of St. Joseph county. Mr. Martin explains that he realizes he is nearing the end of his earthly career and that as he is firmly devoted upon his funeral arrangements 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 vow was cast for Polk and Dallas. Mr. Martin was 33 years old November 5, and he has been a resident of this county for 77 years. HOOSIER POET BUYS HILL. Riley and His Chum, Dickey. to Build Twenty-Seven Room House on the Summit Indianapolis. IndBear Wallow Hill, Brown county, the second highest point in Indiana, has been purchased by James Whitcomb Riley, and his close personal friend John Dickey, and they will build a summer resort on its crown Mr. Riley has long wished for some place where all the conditions would be favorable to the play of the imagination, and to intellectual growth, and he will make Bear Wallow a resort peculiarly adapted to his purposes. Bear Wallow is one of the most picturesque places in the state. The hill gets its name from its oldtime 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. Dickey, who is a Greenfield man, is now on the ground superintending the work of clearing the hill of its timber. Five thousand fruit trees will be set out as soon as this work is completed. RAMBLE BRINGS LONG TERM Frenchman Explores German Fort Innocently—Bezied and Sent to Prison for High Treason Frankfort-on-Main.—A man of 70 has been admired in the Luneville almshouse as an urgent case." His health is shaky and penniless, and has not a friend 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 bumbed quite innocently around the medications. The German author stopped him, and on examining papers, found him to be an officer of the French territorial army. The next day Pierron was summarily condemned to 15 years' imprisonment for high seas son. He served his sentence to a hour in the Magdenburg fortress, while he languished in jail his wif- died and his son was killed. Madagascar war. This sad case was example of the rigor with which many guards her frontiers LAVA IS LATEST VEGETABLE London.—The latest addition to already comprehensive range of tables which now grace the town of the gastronomical cognoscent, pronounced "lay-va," and served hot with roast mutton, instead of addition to the time-honored currant jelly. Lava, when served, looks spainch, save that the rich emerald of spinach is replaced by deep green and amber. Lava is a marine legume found among the wild rocks land's iron-bound coast. It was at the water's edge in long waves, and when in the sea display liancy of beryl and ruby It is purveyed by the dis by whom it is put through of maceration in weak brin served from the hands of a is flavored with lemon. come lava as a highly pa and very nutritious recruit and physicians classify uable diuretic Anti-Hazing Law Is Passed The Ohio senate has passed hazing bill, which originated in the house, and it has gone to the proponent for his signature. The bill provides that any student of any university school, public or private, for a gallery of hazing shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisonment for more than six months in jail, or be the heads of instructors of schools who knowingly permit hazing are unable to a fine of not exceeding $100. Lee's Station, New Jersey ave & Cst. ROYAL BLUE LINE. Every other hour on the odd hour." 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 Philadelp Diner and Pullman Parlor Coaches to Philadelphia. Sleepers. Sleepers. A. hw. $7.00, $9.00 $11.00 a m. p.m. Every Hour on the Hour. All hours with Pullman Service. B 5.00, 6.30 7.00, 7.20, 8.00 B 10.00 11.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 B 1.00, 4.00, 4.50, 5.00, 5.30, 5.40 B 8.00, 10.00 B 10.70, 12.00 B 7.20, 8.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 B 5.00, 5.20, 5.20, 6.30, 8.00, 10.00 TESTWARD. 410 AND NORTHWEST. FILLS 410 MNATI ST. LOUIS AND LOUISVILL 1245 NIGHT TTSPLUG AND *1100 a.m.* *9 150 m.* and LEELAND 5 C.P.M. *9 150 a.m.* *10 05 a.m.* *5 30 p.m.* WREELING 10.05 am g. p.m. A WESTER 18.35 am $1.05 $1.00 p.m SAPRIS week days 72 o. a. m. LONGHURST 4.05, 6.00 p.m. SUNDAY 8:30 a.m., and 5:30 p.m SPRINT ELKTON $1.05 m Th ghparlour FREEDICK $16.15, $19.15 $16.05 $11.00 a.m. PARK TOWN $10.05 a.m and 5.00 a.m. PARK TOWN $10.05, $19.15 a.m. GATHERSBURG and way points th. GATHERSBURG $12.05, $15.30, WASH BUTTON JUNCTION and way point WASH BUTTON JUNCTION $15.00, $15.30, p.m. Pagerage called for and checked from hotel and residence by Union Transfer Company on orders at market offices, six Pennsylvania ave. between New York avenue and Fifteenth ave. and station. H Nex Dist Pass Art BALTIMORE AND OHIO TERMINAL TWENTY-THIRD NEW YORK CITY. enger trains of the Baltimore railroad to and from New York have direct ferry connection with 23rd Street Terminal, in addition Liberty Street; the South Ferry Ter- nual have been discontinued. Twenty-third Street is the most popular terminal of the great metropolis because of convenience to the hotel, theatre and shopping district. In the recent remodeling of the terminal building a glass roofed canopy was constructed on feet wide, under which the construction of the 14th, 23rd, 28th and 29th Street lines pass, so that passengers are protected from the weather having the ferry house, and also avoid the advance of street traffic. A baggage destined to New York will be delivered to 23rd Street unless marked "Liberty Street," otherwise. Complete electric cab service has been established for the transportation of passengers and baggage at very reasonable rates. The importance of 23rd Street is most graphically brought to attention in the August number of the Book of the honor Blue published by the passenger department of the Baltimore & Ohio, under the title "Into the Heart of Cotton. The interest centers within a mile and us of 23rd street, Fifth avenue & Broadway. Full page photograp- hographs of unusual detail present a most interesting view of this most interesting place and 5 cents for copy to D. B. Mariner Passenger Traffic, R. & C. R. Baltimore, Md. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Are spending a sketch and description may cake a sketch in our opinion free whether an patent is probably patentable. Communicate the confidential HANDBOOK on Patents of the patent agency for securing patent. It is taken through MUNN & Co. receive provenance without charge, in the Scientific American. A monthly illustrated weekly. Largest er- gency in our science journal. Terms, $2 a months. $1 Sold by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway. New York Fax: 012-255-7800. E-Mail: munn@munn.com. NEW YORK CLIPPER IS THE GREATEST TREATRICAL SHOW PAPER IN THE WORLD. $4.00 Per Year. Single Copy, 10 Cts. ESTED WEEKLY. SAMPLE COPY FREE. FRANK QUEEN PUB. CO. (L18) PUBLISHERS ALBERT J. BORCH MACKOWEN W. BURKE BRO. NEW YORK 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 city, and if your shoes are not what he says they are, take them back. You don't have to wait to hear from the firm out of the city. The firm is this city, at 1229 Pennsylvania avenue, N. W. 5 50 100 THE BEE AND McCALL'S GREAT FASHION MAGAZINE for one year for $2.00. COUPON. Editor Bee:— Find enclosed two dollars. Send to my address below The Bee and McCall's Fashion Magazine for one year. BUY THE NEW HOME LIGHT RUNNING 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 to 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 4½ 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 true bargain. Gentlemen's 20-year gold-filled American stem winders, $11. Gentlemen's solid gold signet rings; $3.50 up. Ladies' solid gold rings. $2 up. 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, Wurtemburg and Bohemia. We make a specialty of prize cups, $5 up. FUNERAL DIRECTOR 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 Alfred street, Alexandria, Va. Telephone for Office, Main 1727 Telephone Call for Stable, Main 1482-5. OUR STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY. Where I can accommodate 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, P.p. FRANKHUME Wholesale Grocer. Agent for the District of Columbia for LIPTON'S renowned COFFEES and TEAS. OLLI STAG Whiskey. The solo agent for the Artisan-Cigars made in Porto Rica The best and cheapest cigar made. TERMS CASH: Interest charged after 30 days. 454 Pennsylva Bet. 4-1-2 R. L. Mi FUNERAL DIRECT Coffins can be shopped to any p graph orders. Your patronage s and my stock second to none. Fim 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. Stet. 4-1-2&6Sts. N. M. L. Middleton FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND LIVERY can be shopped to any part of the State upon ers. Your patronage solicited. My prices are k 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. pry prices and service guaranteed to all. rates to subscribers of THE BEE. Thirty years' experience. for furnished. Telephone 454 Pennsylvania Ave., 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 drivers for all occasions. CARRIAGES FOR HIRE FOR ALL OCCASIONS S.H. HINES, 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, 22 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 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 Caubinet 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 12° RIDER No M until you We ship to anyone on Finest gu 1905 M with Coast RIDER AGENTS W No Money Req until you receive and approve o We ship to anyone on Ten Days Fri Finest guaranteed $10 t 1905 Models with Coaster - Brakes and Punce RIDER AGENTS WANTED No Money Required until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone on Ten Days Free Trial Finest guaranteed $10 to $24 with Coaster-Brakes and Punctureless Tires. 1903 & 1904 Models $7 to $12 Best Makes..... Any make or model you want at one-third usual price. Choice of any standard tires and best equipment on all our bicycles. Strongest guarantee. We SHIP, ON APPROVAL C. O. 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EASY RIDING, STRONG, BURABLE, SELF HEALING FULLY COVERED by PATENTS BEWARE OF IMITATIONS Send for Catalogue "T," showing all kinds and makes of tires at $2.00 per pair and un--also Coaster-Brakes, Built-up Wheels and Bicycles--Sundries at half the usual price. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D." This tire will outlast any other make-soft, elastic and Easy Riding. We will ship C. O. D. ON APPROVAL. We will allow a cash discount of $5 (thereby making the price $4.50 per pair) if you send full cash with order. Tires to be returned at our expense if not satisfactory on examination. MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept. "J.L." CHICAGO, ILL. ania Ave., &6Sts. N. W. ddleton, OR 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. Robbed, Lew Wallace's Aged Cousin Walked One Hundred and Thirty Miles. Iowa City, Ia.—Footsore and penniless, William Mories, of Bloomington, Ill., 55 years old and a first cousin of Gen. Lew Wallace, arrived here after walking the greater part of the 130 miles between Des Molnes and Iowa City. Despite the fact that he pwns 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 Molnes, chose to make his way to friends near Kaloma, Ia., and seek aid 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 Mories 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 exposition, 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 models $10 to $24 er Brakes and Punctureless Tires. AMERICAN HEIRESS FAMINE Impecunious English Peers Are Languishing for Yankee Girls with Money. London. Henry Labouchere says there is an American helress famine in England and that it has come at the most unfortunate moment that could be imagined. "The radical government," he adds, "will refuse to give appointments to tory favorites, and to transfer money from the pockets of the taxpayers to those of the incompetent well-connected. That situation has never before occurred in our history. "Almost every impeccable eye in the West End had turned toward the United States. At this moment it is heard that either the stock of American heiresses is nearly exhausted, or that many of them are disinclined to purchase husbands in the European markets! It is, indeed, hinted that many of them have adopted the, 'imperial idea,' and now pretend that an American man is to be preferred to a European physical and financial wreck that has inherited a title. 'An heiress, an heiress, my kingdom for an heiress!' is a misquoted passage that is on a thousand lips. "It has recently become the practice in England for the government to sell titles for the benefit of the funds of the party, and there can be little objection, therefore, to the principle being extended a little further. It should be rendered legal for an impecunious peer or baronet to sell his title—for life, at least—with the consent of the courts. That would, moreover, benefit his creditors." WINS ELECTION WITH CAKES Cookies Instead of Drinks and Cigars Help Sloux City Man Into Office. Sioux City, Ia.—William Maxiener, a Democratic baker of Sioux City, owes his election as alderman of the Fourth ward, a solid Republican ward, to the fact that he made a "cooky campaign" and gave his friends and acquaintances an abundance of cookies, instead of cigars and drinks. "For two years I have made it a practice to give away a good many cookies," said Mr. Maxiener in speaking of his big majority in a ward controlled by the opposing party. "Whenever a woman or a boy came into my bakery and I knew he lived in the ward which I desired to represent in the city council I gave him cookies. "Every boy in the ward worked for me. Almost every woman, wives of Republicans and Democrats alike, was a friend of mine because I was generous with my cookies, and I attribute my success at the polls last week to the fact that I gave away cookies. William Maxlener has served in the council for two years. He persistently "landed" on every prominent citizen in Sioux City who asked favors of the city council and special privileges. He fought all the banks in Sioux City over, the practice of keeping heavy city deposits without interest, and in the election he was opposed by them as well as by the powerful corporation interests of Sioux City. But, thanks to his cookies, he was elected by a larger majority than any other Democrat on the ward ticket. BLIND WOMAN'S GOOD WORK Oklahoma City, Okla.—Mrs. S. M. Kirk, of Forest Valley, who has been blind for many years, has acquired a sense of feeling that is remarkable. She prepares the meals for the family, with little assistance, and in paring potatoes can pick out the imperfections with as much skill as if she could see. She makes all the dresses for her two little girls and can put all the different pieces together without getting one of them wrong. One of the most remarkable things is in sewing carpet rags. She can pick out all those of the same color and tack them together without a miss, and in threading a needle she does it as well and quickly as, if her eyesight were perfect. Mrs. Kirk has never spent a day in a school for the blind, but has learned to do these things in her own home, and altogether by application. She lost one of her eyes when quite a small child, but has been totally blind for the last 12 years. Valuable Indian Lands At present there is not an Indian in arms against Uncle Sam and probably there never will be. The Indian, however, is far from poor. He has the richest land in the country, agricultural, forest and mineral, and his potential wealth is above the average for the whole country. The five civilized tribes own the largest known deposits of bituminous coal. Their value is estimated at over $1,000,000,000 and the nation is trustee of this land. Dr. Hale's Advice Dr. Edward Everett Hale attributes his excellent health at the age of 84 to the serenity with which he takes life, sleeping nine hours a night and always keeping his mind occupied. Dr Hale offers this-adVICE to his fellow man: "Speak every day to some one whom you know to be your superior." New Portrait of the Pope Carolins Duran, the famous portrait painter, is about to paint a portrait of Pope Plus X, taking his inspiration from Titian's portrait of Pope Paul III. MASSACHUSETTS TOWN PROHIBITS USE BY BARBERS. Applied to Men's Faces It Creates Desire for the Stuff That Is Productive of the Festive. Holyoke, Mass.—Another of the many great public movements that have their inception in this city of the simple life was inaugurated here the other day. As the cry in Holyoke nearly half a century ago was: "Abolish slavery," so to-day it is: "Abolish bay rum." It has been discovered that the distillation of the leaves of the green bay tree is full brother to the stunt that sea away men's brains. It is also found that young men and old men who have their faces battled with bay rum after shaving frequently go out and acquire what is technically known as a "bun." Local scientists have put two and two together, and unanimously conclude that the curse of rum is absorbed through the pores of the skin, begetting a thirst that accounts for the bustling activity with which so many men hustle from the hands of the barber to the nearest "simple room." Public sentiment, which in Holyoke can always be counted upon to be far ahead of the times, has demanded the exclusion of bay rum from the "tonsorial parlors," and now, by general acclaim, along with the horseless carriage and the engineless train, this fair New England city has the bay-rumless barber shop, and the sweet odor of bay that was wont to hill to slumber the citizen when he made his semi-annual trip to the tonsorial artist to have his hair cut is gone forever. Water only is to be used hereafter. Real bay rum costs $2 a gallon. The tonsorialists are happy, for they have subscribed to public opinion, and at the same time are saving money by their virtuous action. Indeed, it is rumored among the ungodly that the whole matter of the dangers from bay rum was conceived and propagated by the barbers. One of them confidently declared that the use of bay rum bad become an intolerable burden, as all of the men in Holyoke wear whiskers, and these sopped up an astonishing quantity of the costly fluid. "Did you ever, in all your travels," asked the barber informant, "meet with a man from this place who was whiskerless? No, you never did; and with us, who appear to be born with whiskers, it is whiskers till we die. Down with the curse of (bay) rum." LOST DURING HONEYMOON. Couple in Philadelphia Become Separated and Have Unique Experience. Philadelphia.—"Is this the place where you inquire about lost persons in the city?" asked an excited young man who rushed into the Tenth and Thompson street station. Sergt. Acker informed him that he was correct. "Are you lost or have you lost somebody?" queried the police official. "I've lost my wife," replied the young man, who said he was Edwina Simpler, of Selbyville, Del. "Isn't it awful?" the Delawarean continued; "we were only married last week and came to Philadelphia to spend our honeymoon. I missed my wife 15 minutes ago. We were on Broad street and as I passed Fairmont avenue I turned around to say something to Mrs. Simpler and found that she was gone." Acker took a description of the woman and Simpler was seated in the sergeant's room to await word of his missing better half. Fifteen minutes had hardly elapsed before a woman entered and told Sergt. Acker that she had lost her husband. "His name is Simpler, is it not?" asked the sergeant. "Well of all things," the woman said, "if you Philadelphia police aren't the slickest. I have a cousin who is a constable and he told me that the police here was smart, but I had no idea that you were all mind readers, too." The couple were united, and as they left the station house arm in arm they solemnly vowed that they would never again get separated. In a small Jersey town not far from New York is a young woman who is making her living by setting out hardy gardens for people. Being fond of plants, she began by helping her friends to arrange their lower gardens without recompense. From this her services came into demand, and now she earns her living by planning old fashioned flower gardens for any who wish the work done. Last of Thirty-First Congress Andrew J. Harlan, of Bavannah, Mo., is the last survivor of the Thirty-first congress, having represented the Eleventh Indiana district. Although 81 years old, he is still hale and hearty. Among the members in this congress were such men as Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, William H. Seward, Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis and John J. Crittenden. No Kisses for Smokers. Rev. W. Mayo, of Bristol, informed the annual meeting of the British Anti-Tobacco and Anti-Narcotic league at Manchester that 600 girls in his city have resolved to "have nothing to do" with boys who smoke "the boys have taken the situation seriously, for one youngster alone has pleaded 650 of his comrades not to smoke." IS DISLIKED Pulpit orators, colored philosophers, and all kinds of other advocates of negro equality of citizenship have wondered and conjectured why the colored man is disliked. The advocates of negro equality of citizenship have argued all around this great question, and are only inclined to give the bright side of this question, and leave the mistakes hidden. The enemies of the colored man outnumber his friends, and those who are friendly to him are often embarrassed for what the ungovernable and lawless colored man does. If our good white friends will only discriminate between the ignorant and uncultured and refined and educated colored man they would be convinced that the latter class will compare as favorably with them, as far as social culture is concerned. The colored people, that is those who obey the law, are not responsible for the acts of the lawless element. Their actions are just as disgusting to them as they are to the cultured class of white people. We know why the colored people are disliked by certain white people. The entire race is condemned for the acts of one member of the race, which is unfair. Because one colored man commits an offense against the law of the land, is that any reason the entire race should be condemned? Because one rude colored person enters a car and seats himself upon the lap of another, white or black, should a "Jim Crow car law be passed, to effect the entire race? The Williams and Walker "musical oldity" at Convention Hall this week fully demonstrated the fact that the cultured white man and the cultured colored man, the white woman and the colored woman can sit with dignity with one another. The refined white man and woman were seated with the refined colored man and colored woman. The occasion was most gorgeous. It was a scene that would have made Ben Tillman blush; Vardaman would have fled because the company was too cultured for him, and John Sharp Williams would have looked with amazement and said to himself that all colored people are not alike. The pulpit has a duty to perform. The Sunday schools should teach children good manners. There should be less of singing in the churches and Sunday schools and more sound talk on good manners and good morals. There is too much grafting in the church. Williams and Walker are demonstrating negro possibilities. They are showing to the worldl that there is something in the colored man. Those who witnessed "Abyssinia" this week and heard the musical composition of Mr. Will Marion Cook, the world's greatest musical composer, must have felt very proud of the genius and ability exhibited. What did this show demonstrate? These two artists, as well as the author of the play, Mr. Shipp, compared the American negro with Abyssinians. Where upon the American stage is there another such play of this chalracter? The people who saw and heard white and black shows will say that the colored comedian is doing much to eliminate social prejudice. Players of this character are commendable. The Bee extends to Messrs.Williams and Walker, Will Marion Cook, the author, Mr. Shipp, its gratitude and congratulations, and asks that the ignorance and stuidity of the non-appreciative class in this city be overlooked. WHICH IS BEST? Under the caption of "The Racist Problem," one of our local colored contemporaries attempts to account for the custom among prejudiced white people of applying indiscriminately the term "nigger" to the colored people. It says: "For a long time we wondered who the white men meant when they said 'nigger.' Now we know. It is the person who is ashamed to own his people because he has a few drops too many of the blood of the man he still serves in spirit as his master." Now while we have no sym- pathy with the persons referred to by our contemporary, but look with disdain, tinctured with commiseration, upon such persons of doubtful origin, still we do not agree at all that the term "nigger" is applied to them only. On the contrary, the term is a provincialism and is universally applied to all colored people in certain sections, without regard to their morality, intelligence or wealth. Of course the use of the term "nigger" has a peculiar beating upon the race problem, so-called in that in its application it carries with it the injustice, misrepresentation and prejudices of the conditions under which it was originally coined and fostered. The term is the synonym for inferiority, moral and mental, of degradation, and is designed to stamp the band of humiliation upon colored people generally. Nor is the term negro scarcely less obnoxious when applied by the white people. In the main, it expresses about every thing mean and inferior that is expressed by the term "nigger" which is but a corruption of the original term. In certain sections it is considered impolite to use the term "nigger," mainly because the colored people have manifested aversion to its application. But all the same the whites mean about the same thing when they say negro as they do when they say "nigger.' The low, ignorant, besotted, unregenerate clay-eating white cracker uses the word "nigger" while his more intelligent brother uses the term negro—both, however, intending to convey the same ideas. The objection which may be urged against the use of the term "nigger" may be with equal propriety be directed against the word negro. for in the light of honest ethnological differentiation and the application of an absolutely truthful designation both terms are misapplied. Hence if we would look for a term distinctive and characteristic of the racial peculiarities of our people, we must find some more just term. Of course there is objection to the use of any special designation for bona-fide citizens of this country other than that of Americans, pure and simple. But if we must submit to special characterization it ought to be absolutely just and capable of universal application. The term Afro-American would probably most accurately meet actual race conditions. It represents at once our race and other nationality and that is about all the honor or dishonor that any general classification can bestow. The terms nigger, darkey, colored people, and the like, carry with them an odious signification, not because in their simple derivation they do not describe the people of African descent, but on account of the social origin form which they sprang—an origin in which the element of manhood, the rights of property, of liberty, an acknowledgment of intellectual capacity and fitness for the higher social and moral development, were ignored. These terms were used and are still being used and applied out of a spirit of disrespect rather than respect; more out of a disposition to isolate than to fraternize a characterization designed to stigmatize the individual, to blemish his reputation and impede his progress, than to place him in his true light as a co-equal in the bodypolitic and unrightful participant and beneficiary of enlightened institutions. These degenerate terms originated in the spirit of caste and were invented by the enemies of the race rather than their friends. The term Afro-American is of our own coinage, a good indication of scientific originality and is certainly appliable to the entire race. The other terms are too narrow; for truly, the race is a mixture direl all colors and all kinds a menace to the art of painting and the science of ethnology. The term Afro-American is just, because it is comprehensive, because it harmonizes all shades and because under proper manipulation it is capable of that talismanic influence which is calculated to reunite, energize, dignify, strengthen and ad- WILL IT BE TAFT? THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. ciate with their religious sisters and brothers. Just what kind of religion this is, The Bee is unable to state. It is not so much of association as it is to allow the colored brother to sing and pray with them. The White Baptist doesn't care to pray with his colored brother and sister and so it is with the white Methodist and Presbyterian. The white Catholics are very charitable toward their colored Catholics and they treat them as human beings and not as cattle. There should be no discrimination in religious worship. Why should ther be the colored churchman should think for himself. He should worship with those who are Christians in deed and in fact. MISS HUNT ASSAULTED The Bee doesn't mean to say that colored assailants are immaculate and neither will The Bee say that colored men don't commit assaults. Some few days ago a young woman by the name of Miss Hunt, in the vicinity of Rock Creek with her escort, was assaulted. In fact the escort was also badly bruised and the assailant fled. It was immediately circulated that some colored man had committed the assault, and several men were brought before her, but she was unable to identify the man. It now turns out that the young lady was assaulted by a person well known to the people in the tenth precinct and he has not as yet been arrested. If the report is true The Bee hopes that Major Sylvester, as he will, will cause a thorough investigation and have the right parties brought to justice and take the asperSION off the colored people. If one colored man commits an offense the entire race should not be held responsible. The Bee is confident that Major Sylvester is not aware of the assailant Miss Hunt, but there are rumors that he is known to certain people in the tenth precinct. It is believed that the officers are willing to make the arrest, but for some reasons unknown to the department the hands of justice have been stayed. Miss Hunt ought to know who her assailant is. A thorough investigation is being instituted. PRESIDENT GORINN Congress would like to say that the present Board of Education is badly in need of reformation. The opinion of the people is that the present Board of Education has studied the best interest of the public schools. Congress has created more scandal than the scandal-mongers in the public schools. What is needed is more pay for the teachers. They are deserving public servants and worthy of more consideration. President Gordon's reply to the recent strictures on the administration of his board was timely and to the point. EDUCATION OF THE UNFU Too Much Attempted in the Present Scheme of Learning The education of the unfit is another problem which has come up to both our pedagogues and it is one which bound up also in the great problem of underfeeding, says American Medicine. There are so many men writing on the topic as to give the impression that we are attempting too much in our extensive educational schemes. It is now known that every brain has a limit beyond which it cannot be educated—law as applicable to types of men as types of dogs. Children, naturally drop out of school at certain grade and those who are continued beyond their proper limit are merely more thereby. Many a splendid mechan preacher who half starves the rest has thus been educated into a poor inferior that is expressed by the his life. The Board of Trustees of the Cata- the University held their annual mering last week. Candinal Gibbons pres- ided. Last week a colored man struck of fisher J. F. Sullivan of the 10th in the lead with a ball bat. The white people of Oakwood. He lunched a 17 year-old colored boy week. It is a great pity that an or- dine does not visit the South. an- other General Sherman. Sometimes we teach children thig- and when they apply the same we- mad. Take the position of our Corp- Frank Cozzens, P. G. M. P. The Independent order of Three L celebrated their anniversary The Mr. Gray entertained Mr. and Mr. Walker this week. Mr. Martin has been visiting of Pensacola, Fla. Mr. has gone to visit his apple Creek. Taking our city Mrs. Flor- and family of Roanoke, Va. McKinney was called to W Va. by the death of Mr. Mary Rice. Earleigh was one of the Williams and Walker P. Green read a very before the Bethel Lit- tle night. Visitors from Philadel- the Treble Clef were Mr. Morris. Bennett now of Washing- a brother who the Texas planning to open a drug Antoma, Texas. Callers at the Bee office Mr. George W. Walker Harry Burleigh of Williams show and Mr. J. Henri made such a hit in the King of Abyssinia. M. CHIT CHAT. Attend the Williams and Nobody, not a soul. Washington were on sunday night and in style, delivery of the goods, we further developments. Ball, the president of the W as a business man and simply immense. P. L. will appoint its ex- tree shortly and decide as courson or a moonlight. approximate the day and M. P. L. smoker? A offered to any person. B. Harris, after being con- tinue for several weeks, sunday looking the picture continue. Will. Offer of the boys attended W and Walker show, some their wives, others two- To be popular by agree- body. Remember the lane that hasn't any turn. We are sadly disappointed of so much confidence Don't laugh too serious. Money will stand by best friends leave you. Then save a dollar. We stand for the right friendship or party affilia- one please answer? Cloud trousers Mr. H. Now last Tuesday night. Latest cut vest (smile). A. Boston of the Bureau and Printing is quite sick graduates of the M Street are invited to be present meeting of the Alumni Assemble held in the Assembly M Street High School on May 7, at 7:30 o'clock. W. Needham, president of Washington University and Board of Education, will occasion on that occasion. SHARP IN TOWN. S. Sharp, of Iowa, is in just returned from Cuba been speculating, Editor cell and speaks encour- trip. names and Walker and oped with the Misses Pat- in the city. They left Md.. Thursday morning will play. are requested to answer on sometime ago. An- SMITH CHURCH. bert of St. Louis, Mo. endid and inspiring ser- morning at Galbraith collection of the day was general interest of the con- evening the pastor spoke act. "The Revelation of Gd." The day's collection Sus. Sunday, May 6th, d to the raising of the readers hope to raise $ooo. will begin with a six. 0'- clock prayer meeting. The pastor will speak both morning and evening. The public is invited. Monday evening the pupils of Mrs. Clinkscales will give a recital at Galbraith Church. HAMPTON ANNIVERSARY. The thirty-eighth anniversary of the founding of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute will be celebrated on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, May 6, 7 and 8. On Sunday there will be unveiled in the Gymnasium at four o'clock in the afternoon a portrait bust of the founder, General Samuel Chapman Armstrong. This bust was made by Mrs. S. Cadwallader Guild and has been presented to the school by the Armstrong Association of New York, Rev Leander T. Chamberlain, D.D., of that city having been largely instrumental in obtaining it. The address on this occasion will be delivered by Dr. Francis G. Peabody of Harvard University. The presentation will be made by Dr. William J. Schieffelin, president of the New York Armstrong Association, and Dr. Ogden, president of the school's board of trustees, will speak in acceptance of their gift. At the same time will be presented to the school a bust of Dr. Booker T. Washington, the work of Miss Lelia Usher, the gift also of the New York Armstrong Association Association through the instrumentality of Mr. R. U. Johnson of The Century Company. A party from Washington will spend Sunday at the Institute and attend the unveiling exercises. There will be present also on all three days of the Anniversary the members of Dr. Ogden's party returning from the Conference for Education in the South at Lexington, Ky. Monday will be Virginia Day, when there will be a large attendance of prominent citizens of the State, who will come from Richmond on a special train. It is hoped that Governor Swanson will be present, also Hon. J. D. Eggleston, Superintendent of Public Instruction for Virginia, Dr. S. C. Mitchell of Richmond College, Mrs. B. B. Munford, President of the Richmond Educational Association, and other members of this association. Bishop Randolph has been invited and many other prominent citizens of Norfolk will join the Richmond party at Hampton. Roswell D. Page of Hanover County, Virginia, and Walter H. Page of New York will speak on Virginia Day. Papers will be read by students and graduates of the school both on Virginia Day and on Anniversary Day proper. These will be short, simple accounts of personal experiences, which can hardly fail to appeal to those interested in human struggle and achievement. The Hampton School is just closing its thirty-eighth year, with an enrollment of 1383 Negro and Indian students, representing thirty-six States, Canada and the British West Indies, over nine hundred of the students being from Virginia. Courses are given in the trades, agriculture, business, normal training, and domestic science and art; and the school's graduates are able on leaving school to earn their living wherever they may go. The great majority return to their homes in the South and West and settle on land of their own, where they establish homes and help in the elevation of their people. They are in demand as teachers both of academic studies and of the various trades. Many work at their trades, some establishing themselves in shops of their own, for they leave school with sufficient power of initiative and knowledge of business methods to enable them to start in business with a fair prospect of success. At the present anniversary about fifty students will be presented to the trustees as candidates for academic diplomas and sixty as candidates for trade certificates. "LOVELY MAY." Queen of months, sweet month of flow- 05 Of sweet song birds and lovely bowers. Thy zephers from yon sunny shore, Tell us that winter's frosts are o'er, All nature-clothed in living green, Proclaims that only thou art queen. Queen of months so wondrous fair, Thy dew drops sparkle everywhere, Thy fleeting clouds bring welcome rain, To fruit and flowers and growing grain, Thy balmy air, sweet and sereae. Tells all the world that thou art Queen. Queen of months thou art thrice blest, A month of work, a month of rest, Each living thing with glad hearts say, Thou art thrice welcome, "Lovely May." Thy clear blue skies, thy radiant sheen, Brings joy and gladness, beauteous Queen. Queen of months thy mystic clime, We fain would keep for all the time, Thy soothing breeze so gently blow, All nature sighs we'll miss thee so, The distance is so far between, We loth to lose thee, glorious Queen. OPINION OF THE PRESS. GOVERNOR FOLK ON THE MOB. From the Chicago Conservator. Last Tuesday morning the newspapers report the Governor as saying in an interview concerning the mob at Springfield: "I am now advised that about 100 of the leaders of the Saturday night mob are known. I have instructed Gen. Clark to arrest these men and place them in jail. If any attempt at rescue is made and more troops are needed I will send the First regiment and light battery A of St. Louis. "Every member of the mob that took part in this disgraceful proceeding deserves to be hanged, and I propose to use every means in the power of the State to bring these brutal murderers to justice. A few hangings of a few lynchers is an object lesson much needed and Missouri probably will serve this salutary lesson to the rest of the country. "Lynching is murder—cowardly murder. It is murder regardless of the guilt or innocence of the persons lynched, and the State of Missouri will not tolerate it. "One cannot help contrasting what took place in Springfield and the courage of Sheriff Hogg of Butler county, who, single-handed, defied a mob of several thousand who sought to take a prisoner from him. All mobs are cowardly. Only cowards would take part in mobs, and one brave officer can put 5,000 lynchers to flight. Counties should see to it their sheriffs are men of courage." Governor Folk is a reformer in the true sense of the word. A good man. THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. From the Atlanta Advocate. A deal is being printed and spoken these halcyon days about disfranchising the negro in Georgia, and of his disfranchisement in other States. Everybody except the negro himself is heard on the question and the consensus of it all is, that he, whether legally or otherwise, disfranchised with or without his consent, is the benefactor and recipient of a blessing that has been in special preparation and reservation for him, and him only. He is such a loveable character and sq charmingly good that he should not be burdened with the cares and annoyances of political life in which there is worry and no element of reward. His strength must not be wasted in the thankless task of electing good men to positions of honor and trust—his mind must not be clouded with affairs of state and nation, but must be kept clear to direct the hands in the performance of manual and menial labor, and how not to become defiled with the dispisable little ballot. All of this may be best for the Negro. The Southern Statesman declares that it is, and since his interest in the negro is so thoroughly established and far beyond question, we guess it is. But even when we thus conclude we must confess to a sinister little wish that it was not true and that the Southernner times share with him burdens of the electorate under which he groan and on which account our sympathies are ever flowing for him. Of what service is the franchise to any people? Does it protect them from impositions and afford representation? Would our white neighbors feel contented and happy without it? Are we less human than they? If any man is deceiving himself with the thought that negroes deprived of the ballot, are contented and satisfied let him ask himself if he would be, and his answer will be the negro's. We are not satisfied to pay taxes and meet the other requirements of citizens without voice in the government. We would not be if taxes were required of us. We must be citizens in fact and in the enjoyment of every right guaranteed all of the same or equal attainments to the ballot box must be open alike to any and all other citizens. The gateway and no obstruction of color or caste will be built before it by a just people. STRIKING OF THE WOMAN IN THE CAR. From the New York Age. Last week, in New York, a West Indian African, in elbowing his way out of a crowded elevated car, placed his hand on the arm of a white woman, who became indignant and said, "Take your hand off me, you black brute." The West Indian, told her to "Go to hell." Her reply to this invitation must have been "hot stuff," as it so incensed the West Indian that he slapped her in the mouth. The passengers then took a hand in the scrap and then grew into a mob as the policeman moved towards the station house with his prisoner. This, according to the daily papers; but it is persistently asserted that Mr. Trott did not hit or slap the woman at all. The New York newspapers reported the woman in the case as declaring that she was from Alabama and that if the alleged assailant had been in the South instead of in New York he would have been done for, and a lot of that sort of humbug. Finally, it turned out that the woman came from New Jersey, and, inferentially, all the Southern fireworks attributed to her indignant speech must have been manufactured by the newspaper reporter. Unfortunately, New York newspaper reporters are fast becoming as able-bodied liars as those of the Southern States in reporting scraps between blacks and whites. In fact many of these reporters are Southern scamps whose mission is to poison the atmosphere of New York public opinion in all matters of happening or opinion affecting blacks and whites. When passengers forget themselves and call each other "brute," "nigger," "dago." or sheeny," whether they be men or women, they must expect to have their indiscretions resented, and if they find a blow lodged in their mouths they should not be surprised. We have this advice to give to Afro-Americans in this neck of the woods: If a white man so far forgets himself as to call you a "nigger" or a "brute," in a crowded transit car, or otherwheres, swat him in the mouth with all your might; if a white woman does it, stare her in the face, beg her pardon with the most sarcastic smile you can conjure, tip your hat, and pass out or on, and you will find that the insult will pass you by and react on the woman, in the estimate of your fellow-passengers. WHAT ARE REPUBLICANS THINKING ABOUT? From the Guardian It is beyond our comprehension why in Massachusetts there should be any difficulty in getting an anti-discrimination amendment for Southern project. We do not understand what the Republicans are thinking about. Democrats are more friendly in many instances. It is simply amazing how Republicans are driving colored Republicans into the opposition in State politics. Unless a halt is called, Republican success is deliberately jeopardized. Colored men have never been so deeply stirred before. They are talking already of running candidates for State offices on an Equal Rights Party platform in November. The Virginia lobbyist tells us our protest only make votes for him, a Southern Democrat. Think of it. Army experts are going to investigate the recent quake at San Francisco. President Gompers is getting behind the members and Senate relative to the eight-hour law. The Chinamen in this country are doing some very peculiar things. The white people wink at the same. At certain places right here in the city Chinamen visit and are treated like humans. And the line drawn in regards to respectable colored people. BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE. 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More Than a Million Acres Will Be Turned Over to Homesekers 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 stampede of prospectors as well as settlers into that region. Uncle Sam has thrown barriers around this reservation for many years and, notwithstanding the importunnings 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 scouts. 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 Sioux 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. Fully two-thirds of the land bears 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 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 walter. 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 ladder. 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 "Bock 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 overladdulgence 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. RECORDS BROKEN BY RECENT RATE OF ARRIVALS. Estimated Number of Aliens for Current Fiscal Year Is 1,250,000 Nationalities and Dis- Washington—Immigration to the United States during the present fiscal year will break all records and reach the million and a quarter mark, if the enormous inflow continues at its present rate. While the figures for March are not available, the immigration officials know that all records for that month have been smashed. The heaviest immigration occurs during the months of March, April, May and June. For the eight months since the close of the last fiscal year, the number of immigrants who reached the United States is 548,511, as against 523,015 for the same period during the previous year. These figures are for the eight months when there is comparatively little immigration, and during the next four months of this fiscal year the number to arrive will more than double that of the last eight months, and the total will probably be 1,250,000. During the last three months the number of immigrants was 191,939, as compared with 186,039 for the same period last year. One-fourth of the immigrants over 14 years old can neither read nor write. An idea of the increase in immigration can be gained when the figures for the last fiscal year are compared with those of ten years ago. A decade ago the total annual immigration was 235,655, as against 1,026,499, an increase of 766-884. Of the total immigration for last year 31 per cent. settled in New York, 20 per cent. in Pennsylvania, seven per cent. each in Illinois and Massachusetts, and five and one-half per cent. each in New Jersey and Ohio. Seventy-six per cent. of the entire population settled in these six states, the actual number of settlers being as follows: New York, 315,511; Pennsylvania, 210,708; Massachusetts, 72,150; Illinois, 52,770; New Jersey, 57,258; Ohio, 49,381. The remaining 24 per cent settled in the other 39 states. The countries from which the immigrants came and the number are as follows: Austria-Hungary, 275,693; Italy, 221,479; Russia, 184,897; Germany, 40,574; Norway, Sweden and Denmark, 60,625; England, 64,709; Ireland, 52,845. The distribution of the immigrants by nationalities in Illinois was as follows: Polish, 13,862; Italians, 10,358; Scandinavians, 7,770; Germans, 7,614; Hebrews, 5,480; Croatians, 4,109; Slovak, 3,777; Lithuanian, 3,440. According to Commissioner General of Immigration Sargent, the reasons for the great influx of newoomers are the prosperous conditions in the United States and social depression in some parts of Russia, the low wages paid there and the higher wages paid in the United States. For the first time the south is absorbing some of the immigrants. This is due to the fact that the labor bureaus in the southern states are offering inducements to immigrants. These inducements are in the shape of cheap lands and steady employment at good wages. The largest proportion of the Hebrews settle in the large cities of New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Baltimore, while the Hungarians, Poles, Scandinavians, Slovaks, and Croatians go to Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Illinois to work in the coal mines. The Swedes generally go to the Dakotas and engage in farming. The Italians go where the railroads are being built and where large numbers of low class laborers are needed. GOLD IN MASTODON SKULL Pocket of Rich Mineral Found in Eye Socket of Unearthed Skeleton. Tacoma.—In the eye socket of a skull of a huge mastodon unearthed in the Forty-Three Gold Run claim, near Dawson, a few days ago, was found gravel that washed $1,600, in gold. Malcolm McConnell, owner of the claim, received word Saturday in a letter. He had just arrived from San Francisco, where he and Miss Carrie McGuire were married a few days ago. They left Monday on the City of Seattle for Skagway and Dawson. McConnell has spent most of the past nine years in Alaska, where he has been successful. He came out last fall, bringing a tusk and a few of the bones of the mastodon, which have been on exhibition. The letter received from his men said the remainder of the bones of the mammoth animal had been found, and telling him of the pocket of gold found in the eye socket in the skull. The bones will be shipped to Tacoma. Sun Spot Causes Eruption. Among the interesting opinions of scientists on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is one from Prof. Belar, of Lelbach, an authority on seismic disturbances, who, in a telegram to the Daly Mall attributes the eruption to the activity of a great sub spot. Famous Frenchman Dead The death is announced of M. Emile Boutmy, of the Institute of France. With the exception of M. Talne and M. Jusserand, no Frenchman has probably ever made so profound a study of the Anglo-Saxon character and institutions. Skin of New York Men Perforated as Test to Prove Loss of Sensation. New York.—One of the most startling exhibitions ever seen in a courtroom was given a few days ago before Judge Edward B. Thomas and a jury in the United States circuit, court in Brooklyn, when Joseph Lipsitz was bared to the waist and a white hot needle was applied to the skin in more than 50 places. The purpose of the exhibition was to show that there was complete anaesthesia and Lipsitz never flinched as the needle burned its way into the flesh. Lipsitz, who now lives in New Boston, Mass., was a passenger on a New York, New Haven & Hartford train on March 21, and in a collision near Waterbury, Conn., was thrown from his seat. He sustained an injury to the spinal cord affecting the sensory nerve so that it was alleged there was a complete anaesthesia of the body below the neck. He brought an action to recover $50,000 damages, and the case was on trial at the time the experiment took place. It being agreed by the attorney for the railroad company to have the demonstration before the jury, Lipsitz' back was bared, and Dr. Richard M. Burke, the attending physician, produced an instrument similar to one used by pyrographers in burning wood and leather. It was a steel needle, heated by a benzine flame and bulb, and the needle was at a white heat when it was applied. Lipsitz did not make the slightest move when it was applied. AN ACCOMMODATING HEN. Come to Kitchen Every Morning and Lays Egg in Time for New York.—North Albany has the most accommodating hen on record. A certain boarding house proprietress in that enterprising section of the city has introduced a novelty into the fresh egg market. She has a hen which is so well trained that it lays an egg "while you wait." This is the modus operandi, vouched for by a man of undoubted veracity: "The hen comes to the back door of the house every morning and cakes until the door is opened for it. "The housewife invariably gives the hen a bit of green stuff, such as cabbage or lettuce, as a tidbit. Then she shows the fowl an egg, after which she 'pifts' it into the woodbox. "The hen goes over to the box, looks in and makes a great, fuss before jumping in. In the course of a short time she 'adds to' the stock of eggs by leaving a duplicate of the one placed in the box by the housewife. Biddy then goes to the door and cackles to have the door opened. This little scene is enacted regularly every morning, and up to date has lasted for three weeks." PUSS PLAYED THE PIANO. Household Disturbed by. Uncanny Performance in the Still Hours of Night. Rising Sun, Pa. — When Jacob Houseman's piano began apparently to play itself in his parlor, near Eagle Point, the other night, Jacob reluctantly got out of bed, reached for his gun and declared: "Well, If it is ghosts, we'll have it our right now." Descending the stairs cautiously on tiptoe, he silently opened the parlor door; only to find that the piano, right there before him, kept on playing, without a finger on the keys! His first impulse was to blaze away, but he thought of the cost of the plano and of the feelings of his aroused family upstairs, and discretion got the better of his valor. He cautiously opened the top of the piano, and out jumped the gladdest cat that was ever released from musical thralldom of the other soot. Puss had evidently "smelled a mouse" and thought she smelled it in the piano. Observing her mistake, she had pranged across the hammers and wires in the most unconventional fashion. WIFE HANDLES THE WINE. Helpmeet of California Man Takes This Means of Keeping San Diego, Cal.—Probably one of the most peculiar agreements ever recorded at the courthouse was filed recently. Martin Shuster, who has been in the habit of drinking intoxicating liquors to excess, agrees to keep sober if Marie Shuster, his wife, who had refused to live with him, returns to her home. Mrs Shuster, besides agreeing to return to the home of Shuster and to remain there if he keeps sober, stipulates that she shall have "the keeping and control of the wine cellar" and to deal out to Martin Shuster "not less than one nor more than two bottles of wine a day." Shuster agrees not to drink any intoxicating liquors except such as are given him by his wife. If he breaks the agreement he is to assign and deed all his real estate and personal property to his wife. King Edward's Cruise The itinerary of King Edward's coming cruise in the Mediterranean is to be kept as secret as possible. "This says London Truth, "will save his majesty the routine of receptions and ceremonials and the intolerable nuisance of the Victoria and Albert being dogged by the jachts of pushing anobe." FLOWER GUILD WORK TENEMENT FAMILIES IN NEW YORK MADE HAPPY. Window-Boxes Furnished for the Summer Season to Hundreds, Including All Nationalities. New York.—Five hundred window boxes are in process of manufacture for the benefit of New York's submerged tenth and 500 families are to be made happy this coming summer with the boxes filled with flowers. The New York city branch of the Nation Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild has started its warm weather work, and this is one of the most important features of it. The orders are sent in early that they may be completed before the rush season begins, and by the last of April or first of May the 500 boxes, filled with flowers, will be in place in as many tenement house windows. The boxes are 31 inches long, made to fit a tenement house window. They have no drainage holes, and are warranted positively not to drip. All are filled with the same kind of plants, hardy ones that will grow with the slightest encouragement under adverse circumstances. There are three or four geraniums in each, two English lyves and one other vine. Screws and wires are an important part of the flower box outfit and are furnished with each. The florist delivers the boxes, but does not put them in place. There is a ten-dollar fine for every box which falls from a window, whether it chances to hit a head or not, and the individual putting the box in place is responsible for it. Every nationality in New York, excepting only the Chinese and Japanese, got window boxes last year, and this summer the Chinese are to be included, and if anyone knows a Japanese settlement or mission through which the Japanese may be reached they may have them, too. Last year 205 window boxes were distributed in the city and the result was more satisfactory than the guild could have hoped. In only one instance did the flowers in the boxes die, and this was through an accident in a settlement. Guild visitors called at the different places where boxes had been distributed and gave instructions in the care of the flowers. The guild's work is limited only by its finances. The boxes cost $1.25 each, and to anyone wishing to purchase them they sell at wholesale rates. It costs 90 cents to refill a box, and in some of the city schools the boys are making boxes which the guild will fill with flowers. CHECK ILLEGAL GRAZING. Forest Rangers in Arizona Enforce Regulations Regarding Reserve Pastures Tuceon, Ariz.—Forgat Supervisor T. F. Meagher has issued orders for the forest rangers to drive off and exclude all unpermitted stock grazing on the reserves, and announces that the owners of stock grazing on the lands against the law will forfeit their privilege of any kind to reserve rights in the future. The action follows the receipt of instructions from Chief Forester Gifford Pinchor, who calls attention to the ruling that permits will be issued to the full capacity of the reserves. The cattle owners under the privilege will be required to pay a fee. In his bulletin the chief forester states that the intrusion of unpermitted stock will not only damage reserve interests by overgrazing, but will also do an injustice to the cattlemen who pay for the privilege of allowing their stock to graze on the reserves. The forest rangers are commanded to drive off and exclude all unpermitted stock. It is stated, also, in the instructions that any cattleman who intentionally drives unpermitted stock on the reservation will be liable to prosecution for trespass and a suit for damages. Attention is called to the efforts of the forest service to secure the passage of a bill granting counties in which reserves are located five per cent. of the gross receipts to represent any possible loss of taxes through the creation of the reserves. In a second bulletin attention is called to the settlers who have taken up homeesteads in territory that is a forest reserve. A bill is pending for the relief of settlers who made invalid settlements on land valuable for agricultural purposes, and to permit further settlement of such land within forest reserves. Settlers who took up their claims previous to January I are to be unmotested for the present. All others will be ordered out. Czar Is Hard Worker An interesting light is thrown on the czar's life at his palace of Tsarskoe Selo in a private letter from an officer of the imperial bodyguard, who has been attached to the czar's entourage for the past two years. "Ever since 'Red Sunday,'" he writes, "the czar's existence has been one unending series of anxieties, which have told very heavily upon him. Only among his family does he apparently forget the menace of the revolution, threatening news of which reaches him with the merciless regularity of the ticking of a clock. These are, indeed, his only moments of happiness and relaxation from the worries and cares of state, and perhaps the rare exception of a walk or a ride in the park, which, however, has become a very rare occurrence of late. Washington.—In the three months which ended March 31,243 persons either resigned their employment at the navy department or in navy yards, or refused to accept positions under the navy department after being certified by the civil service commission to the secretary of the navy. As the total number of naval employees on the classified list is about 2,500, the percentage of resignations and declinations is unusually large, and Secretary Bonaparte is worried about the lack of desirable new employees who are willing to fill the places vacated by those who leave to accept positions either in other departments or with private corporations. The positions which are vacated, and which persons who have passed civil service examinations refuse to take, command salaries ranging from $700 to $1,400 a year, and the failure to fill these places is due chiefly to the provision of the law that a certain quota of employees must be taken from each state. It might be possible to fill the places with persons living near Washington, but those who are certified to this city from remote sections refuse to move to Washington. The pay in the navy department is lower than in many other departments, and consequently trained clerks and stenographers, as well as experienced draftmen, messengers and watchmen, do not remain in the navy department any longer than they can help. Secretary Bonaparte framed a bill creating a permanent civil employee list, and giving the rank of enlist to clerks who serve the department satisfactorily for three years. This bill has not received favorable consideration in congress, and some other means of offering greater inducements to naval employees will probably be suggested by the secretary. UNIQUE ADVICE IN SERMON Cleveland Evangelist Tells Young Man How to Choose a Good Wife. Cleveland. O.—Evangelist Manley Wilson delivered an address on "Choosing a Wife or a Husband and How to Treat Them After You Get Them" at the Gospel church recently. He said in part: "It's a crabbed old man who never had a wife. It's a crabbed old man who never had a husband. "My advice to young men contemplating marriage is this: "Before you wed examine the girl's tongue. If it's tied in the middle and russ at both ends don't marry her. Also measure her tongue. If it's longer than ten inches don't marry her, because she will spend her time climbing trees to gossip with the neighbors. "Then again, look into the family garbage can before you take the leap. If it's filled with half ples, biscuits, cake and bread, don't marry her, because she can't cook. "A woman can put more out of the back door with a spoon than a man can bring in the front door with a shovel. Choose a wife in keeping with your profession. In short, don't get hitched unless you hitch. "If any of you girls have your eyes upon prospective husbands, I would say: "Beware of those spider-legged dudes, who possibly have money but certainly no occupation. If your admirer is posted on all the races, make him trot. Don't think you can reform a drinker by marrying him. I'd at least make him try the drink cure first. "Now for the married folks." "When you marry, you marry a wife or a husband, not a mother-in-law" LETTER 45 YEARS LATE. Missive Malled by Son During Civil War Just Received by Stoughton, Mass.—"It is as though my boy had spoken to me from the dead." These are the years Ellisha Hawes, who is nearly 93 years of age, repeats as he reads and reads over again a letter he has just received, through the dead letter office, from his son, who died in Virginia during the civil war. The letter was written 45 years ago. Where the letter has been during all the years and why it did not reach him sooner is a mystery to Hawes and his friends. The young man was killed at the age of 22 by lightning after being at the front about six months. The letter was the last he had written to his family. With it came a paper of the same date. The boy was a great favorite of his father and his death was a grief from which Hawes has never recovered. "I can't realize," says Mr. Hawes, "that the boy who wrote the letter would be 67 years old and a civil war veteran now if he had lived." The letter is a boyish one, giving details about the long marches, and is full of messages for family 'and friends. "I am well," it ends. Smallest Village One of the results of the recent census was the discovery that the village of Boerbusch, in the district of Burgdorf in Hanover has only four inhabitants, two males and two females, and is therefore the smallest municipality in the world. In the same district, Landwehr numbers 24 inhabitants; Benrode, 18; Wackerwinkel, 25, and Ahrbeck, 29. Several other villages number less than 50 inhabitants. 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 revelation of the extent to which smoking has affected the feminine heart of England. But ero smoking among women was particularly regarded as a bad command, to attain exclusive circles in West end city. It is asserted that in the the fashionable world men alike are addicted to the sive tobacco. The women stantly growing taller in the smoking in public. The vicious to all who visit the restaurants and cafes, where smoking woman has been ception instead of the rule. Railway men say that women ally smoke in their reserved ments on long journeys. Serv large households report threats are addicted to smoking, grant nicotine accessories. appear at all women's gather It is also alleged that the mastered both men and women, and that society men who have large establishments fit the necessary to provide for their saloons, so as to avoid resorting among maids, coachmen, footmen and errardor thunks. Lady Marjorie Wilson, who writing the subject of smoking, said that the servants in the great British 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 tendants, 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's 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 Sundays Battle Creek, Mich.—Mrs. Christian K. Huber, a Battle Creek washerwoman, who rides in an automobile purchased with money she earned over the tub, is the most conspicuous motor enthusiast in the city. Mrs. Huber has from 18 to 4 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 and other house which she rented 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 rounds" with her machine gathering the washings. She uses the machine also to deliver the neat clothes. Mrs. Huber's house is modern and is better than the homes of many persons who earn large salaries. That automobile." she said, "is its recreation and comfort I have. Why have I not the same right to be as a wealthy person?" SOLDIERS SENT TO GIRLS. The German Emperor Provides Partners for Young Women to Dance With. Crefeld, Germany.—When I spent William visited Crefeld in a group of girls complained to the majesty that they had no dancers, partners and begged him to send a regiment of cavalry. The emperor promised to do so and a regiment of husars arrived here from Duesseld and with it came the emperor, who decided to take part in the reception. The young women of the enthusiastically acclaimed the hers and handed the staff officers of floral offerings for his majesty. The latter, replying to the mayor's speech of welcome, said: "I have my word. To-day I have given to its garrison and the young all their partners." The emperor's remarks were greeted with cheers. The city, which is the center of silk and velvet industry, decorated for the occasion of the principal streets being decorated of velvet and silk. Since the emperor made a promise to the young women at the relchstag appropriated money necessary to erect barracks here, which have been constructed for the accommodation of regiment of cavalry. Old City Servant Enoch Howlett, city paymaster and one of the oldest public servants of Cambridge, Mass. has just arrived to his post at the city hall after a tea days' absence caused by illness. He was 80 years old. March 22 and worries him considerably to have been forced to spend the eighteenth birthday at home, insured in the city service. J. Simon and Co. Merchant Tailors First Class Goods to order. Up-to-date in every Particular. Satisfaction or money Refunded J. Simon, 5039thSt. Northwest ITEMS ON THE WING. Capt. Geo. H. Knox, 26th Infantry, is worth $25,000,000. A tornado struck Texas last week. The Bible says that the world will be destroyed by fire the next time. These are simply forerunners. Our old friend, Dr. Brooks, has removed back to his old home 306 3d street, S. W., Brother Marshall's old home. The G. A. R. will celebrate its 40th anniversary soon. Col. John S. Mosby, the famous Ex- Rebel, was the guest of honor at a public entertainment given by Kinsley Post, 113, G. A. A., of Boston, Mass. As we said before, white people can fight, kill each other and then make up, but we, us and Co. must keep on applying the knife. Take the great craft fight which has been running since 1896. Full details will appear soon. Our old friend, Dr. Murray, is a great man. The Dr. should have been a minister instead of an A. M. D. (Simmons Commandery) continues to hold its conclaves at the Doctor's place. We presume that the Doctor must be the earn- Gov. Hock, of Kansas, his gotten into est commander, ex-officio. had repute by trying to kiss the wife of former Governor Stanley. He has been styled Hoch der kisser. Fish at Brisbane, Australia, fell from the skies in large numbers. Apollo Commandery No.15, K. T. of Troy, N. Y., stopped here on their visit to Fort Monroe. The Fraters A very interesting circular will appear pretty soon, giving a description of the War of 1896. Our friends East, from what we can learn, are divided. There will be another split. Chickens like curses return home. It is only a question of time. St. Elizabeth Hospital will be sweepingly investigated by a committee of five to be appointed by Speaker Cannon of the House of Representatives. The Rev. Dr. Torrey of Philadelphia, Pa., claims that a good many ministers and congregations neglect to pray. And when churches want a new pastor they invite a lot of ministers to come and preach trial sermons and show sermons, etc. An English traveler in disguise discovers a synagogue in the interior of China of Jews who have been living there since 700 B. C. John Cates of Key West, Fla., caught in Florida waters a fish weighing 800 pounds. It is 7 feet long. Its body is covered with hair and it has a face like a Bengal tiger. The Rev. Fathier Ducey of St. Leo's Rectory, New York City, sending his contribution for the relief of sufferers at San Francisco, says in part: In the hour of such dreadful suffering and mental anguish we have in view no conditions of faith. It is not of Protestants or Catholics we think but of our afflicted brethren in the common Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Jesus Christ. These are grand words, but the American of to-day pays no attention to the same; everybody is in the ring with but the negro of the United States. W. R. Hearst of New York has shipped to San Francisco an R. Hoe & Co. latest printing press to replace the one destroyed by the fire. The first colored man in the United States to receive the 33d degree was H. H. Gilbert of Philadelphia. He received the same in 1842 from Jos. W. B. Smith, the founder of the New York Supreme Council. Senator Platt will not seek re-election in 1000. The Rev. John Rudolph, pastor of the German Evangelical Church of Hoboken, during his 29 years in the ministry has married 1,859 couples and buried 1,896, previously he married 872 couples and buried 1,011, making a total of 2,731 marriages and 2,900 funerals. Iowa teachers may continue to marry without notice to the school director who employ them. We are all born, but not buried. Recent events have shown the power of the Supreme Master of the universe. Another thing, it has demonstrated that you can be up today and down tomorrow, and six feet of earth makes us all of one size. The picture of Benjamin Franklin, taken by the English from Philadelphia during the Revolution, has been restored to the United States. Lynching is commencing to bear fruit. The recent event at Springfield, Mo., has aroused the Governor and the clergy. Not only were the men innocent, but the mob released other prisoners, thereby becoming by said act outlaws. The 20th Century Club of Boston, Mass., has served an uncooked banquet of nineteen vegetarian' dishes. Phone M. 4S37 LEGAL NOTICES. THOMAS WALKER, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS TRICT 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. Given under my hand this 17th day of April, 1906. William D. Jarvis Attest: W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Thos. Walker, Attorney. TRICT OF COLUMBIA, Holding a Probate Court. No. 13,508, Administration. This is to give notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of George W. Morgan, 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 60th day of April, A. D., 1907; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 30th day of April, 1906. Mary E. Morgan, 600 2d st., N. W. Attest: Wm. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Thos. 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 Douglass, 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 warehouse. Address Announcement. CLAIRVOYANT AND ASTROLOGIST Life from erode to grava. Gives names in full of those you have or will marry; causes happy those you desire; those you desire; united those separated (never falls). If you are in doubt as to any undertaking in business, social or domestic life; stiekness, dl. Life from eradle to grave. Given names in full of those you have or will marry, causes marriage to those you desire unless those separated (never falls). If you are in doubt as to the outcome of any taking in business, social or domestic life, sleekness, diversion, separation. Be in law, lost or absent friend, interest you; if you desire to have your domestic troubles removed, your lost love returned, counsel or write me. You will be advised the best way to succeed. Post 511. A Patron attended to all parts of the world. Letters of inquiry answered on receipt of two stamps. Dr. FERRY 1024 ARCH STREET Mr Robert Richardson, 406 O street, N. W., who was stricken with paralysis some three years ago, died Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock A. M. Mr. Richardson had been employed in the bath room at the Capitol for thirty years. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and was buried by that order. Mr. Richardson had a long list of friends who will regret to hear of his death. Snits $12.00 up. The Base Ball House, 1528 7th street, is one of the most popular places of business in the city. There are places that claim to surpass this house for pure whiskey, but the concensus of opinion is among those who have good tastes that the BASE BALL HOUSE under the management of W. J. Donovan is unequalled. This house is known to have the purest and best whiskies in the market. His excellent selections are made with care. The patron's health is more important than anything else, hence W. J. Donovan makes it a business to purchase the purest and the best wines and liquors the market affords. HIS COLUMBIA CLUB. Whiskey is a household article. The very name tells you that Donovan is the only man who handles BORN CLAIRVOYA NT AND CARD READER. TELLS ABOUT BUSINESS. Removes Spells and Evil Influences Re-unites the Separated and Gives Luck to All. the goods. The Old Glory Cigars is something new. He has recently purchased several thousand of these cigars. He had them made es- specially for the trade. They are cigars that smoke appreciable and are equal to any cigar on the market. Smokers like a good cigar and this you can find at Donovan's. Night Cap The Baseball House. THE COLUMBIA CLUB is especially distilled for this house. It is Donovan's own brand. AT special offer FREE. THE SPRAGUE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW, 844 MAGNETIC BLDG. DETROIT, MICH. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" KINKY or CURLY HAIR that it can be bput up in any style desired consistent with its length. Ford's Hair Pomade was formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" but the only safe preparation known to us that makes kinky or early hair straight, as shown above. Its use makes the most stubborn, harsh, kinky or curly hair soft, may be obtained from one treatment; 2 to 4 bottles are usually sufficient for a year. The use of Ford's Hair Pomade ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") removes and prevents dandruff, rink, and itching of the hair from falling out or breaking it makes it grow and, by nourishing the roots, gives it now life and vigor. Being elegantly perfumed and harmless, it is a toilet Ford's Hair Pomade ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") has been made and sold continuously since about 1915, and label "OZONIZED OX MARROW", was registered in the United States in 1920, in 1971. In all that long period of time it has been returned from the hundreds of thousands we have sold. FORD's HAIR POMADE remains sweet and effective, no matter how long you keep it. Be sure to get Ford's, as its use is limited to the hair. PLIABLE, Beware of imitations. Remember that Ford's, Hair Pomade ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") in put only in 50 ct. size, and in made only in Chicago and by us. The formula has the signature, Charles Ford's. Full reactions with every bottle. Price only 95 us. Sold by drugstores and dealers. If your drags or dealer can not supply you, he can procure it from his jobber or wholesale dealer. It is for three bottles or 25 for six bottles, express paid. We pay postage and express charges to all polite in U.S.A. When ordering it or express money order, mention this paper. Write your name and address plainly to The Organized Hair Pomade WILLIAM'S Prussian Syrup —OF— TAR, WILD:CHERRY &c. CHRISTIAN XANDER'S hiskies The finest obtainable qual ities at 40c. to £3 full qt. Quality House 909 7th St. Phone M 774. E. MURRAY REGULAR ONE DOLLAR CREAM AT 90 CENTS PER GALLON, CHURCHES, FAIRS ETC. THESE PRICES GO INTO EFFECT ON AND AFTER APRIL 15th. E. Murray, 1216 You street, N. W. Wholesale and retail. HILL'S TONSORIAL PARLOR. UP-TO-DATE IN EVERYTHING. 105 6th STREET, NORTHWEST. 5 CHAIRS, ELECTRIC APPLIANCES. HILLS, 105 6th STREET, N. W. 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In the past|this overhauled, repaired and built over Fiveoooo worth of work in Washington, being of every description and character, specialty of church and hall designs, and the building up of vacant lots in the Dug having plans gotten out, buildings one glad to have you call or write us. No above named lines. Columbia Benefit Association The Columbia Benefit Association is an Insurance Company for the masses. One which pays promptly;one whose terms are liberal; one whose officers are men of ability, honesty and integrity; one whose capital stock is paid up in full, and is in-corporated and licensed under the new law of the District of Columbia; We want AGENTS of ability for all sections of the city; we pay liberal salaries and commission to agents. Wm. J. Howard, president; HenryH. Waring, vice-president; Edmund Hill, Jr., secretary and manager;D. Blair, physician; Gen. F. Collins, attorney. Main office, 494 Louisiana avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. Jno. A. 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