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VOL. XXV.NO. 51 industrial and Technical Education What Massachusetts is Doing in This Direction—A Significant Report A very interesting and significant report on industrial and technical education has just been issued by a commission appointed by the State of Massachusetts. The position of Massachusetts on the matter of education in all its phases is well known. Her supremacy has been undisputed and her eaxmple has been for years the guide and light to progressive educators throughout the country. Her part in the development of our common school system under the leadership of her foremost educators, notably Horace Mann, has been in the past and is at present one of force and wisdom. Within her bounds is the oldest and best-known college in America, the oldest secondary school, there was established the first normal school and many of the advanced ideas, now a recognized part of what we know, as the new education, first took root in the soil of the old Bay State. For these reasons any official document issued under the direction of that State dealing with any feature of the general subject of education must bear the stamp of authority and carries weight with all students of our system of public schools. In June, 1905, Gov. W. L. Douglas, acting under a resolution of the State Legislature, appointed nine persons as a Commission on Industrial and Technical Education. This Commission represented the manufacturing, agricultural, educational and labor interests of the State. Its Chairman was Carroll D. Wright, former United States Commissioner of Labor, now President of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., and an eminent authority on social and economic subjects. Many public hearings were held by this Commission in different parts of the State in which manufacturers, business men, farmers, representatives of labor unions, school officials and members of social organizations were heard in regard to the needs for education in the different grades of skill and responsibility in the various industries of the State. Another part of its work was to conduct through an expert investigator with a corps of assistants the most thorough inquiry into the relations of children to the industries of the community which has yet been made in this country. The result of these hearings and the exhaustive study on the relation of children to the industries, together with the conclusions and recommendations of the Commission are embodied in a document of 196 pages bearing the title, "Report of the Commission on Industrial and Technical Education." Many of the observations in that report are of a character that cannot fail to interest all who are engaged in influencing the forces that educate—whether that force be the rostrum, the press, the church or the school. This is especially true among our people, where authentic information, clear thinking and sober judgment are so much needed on the subject of education. This report does not deal with any feature of mental training among the colored people as such nor are its conclusions and recommendations designed to shape the course for any of the well-known industrial schools for the colored race. But it is for the great State of Massachusetts, the seat of Harvard University, the stronghold of the old classical form of mental discipline, the State of scholars, poets and statesmen. For the reason that this document is not designed for the colored people and therefore to be interpreted as antagonistic to their highest and best development, it can be read with calmness and digested with that deliberation that will aid in a thorough assimilation of its contents. This reading and deliberation may help to indicate to the colored people the trend of educational thought of white New England and its purpose to put that thought into concrete form and action. But direct extracts from this important report will be more illuminating than any comment The Bee may make. On page 5 this statement is made relative to the schools of Massachusetts. Ponder well, the schools of Massachusetts! "The Commission was made aware of a growing feeling of inadequacy of the existing public school system to meet fully the need of modern industrial and social conditions. The opinion was expressed by many speakers that the schools are too exclusively literary in their spirit, scope and methods." Under the General subject of Conclusion the report states on pages 19 and 20: 1. "The industries of Massachusetts THE BEE WASHINGTON need, in addition to the general intelligence furnished by the public school system and the skill gained in the narrow fields of sub-divided labor, a broader training in the principles of the trades and a finer culture in taste as applied to material, workmanship and design. Whatever may be the cost of such training, the failure to furnish it would in the end be more costly." 2. "The State needs a wider diffusion of industrial intelligence as a foundation for the highest technical success, and this can only be acquired in connection with the general system of education into which it should enter as an integral part from the beginning." 3. "The latest philosophy of education re-enforces the demands of productive industry by showing that that which fits a child best for his place in the world as a producer tends to his own highest development physically, intellectually and morally." 4. "The investigation has shown that that vocation in which all other vocations have their root, namely the care of the home, has been overlooked in the modern system of education. In order that the industrial life of the community may be vigorous and progressive the housekeepers need to be instructed in the laws of sanitation, in purchase, preparation and care of food, and in the care of children, that the home may be a home, and not merely a house." Among the recommendations the report makes the following on pages 20 and 21: 1. "The Commissioners recommend that cities and towns so modify the work in the elementary schools as to include for boys and girls instruction and practice in the elements of productive industry, including agriculture and the mechanic and domestic arts, and that this instruction be of such a character as to secure from it the highest culture as well as the highest industrial value." 2. "The Commission recommends also that the work in the high school be modified so that the instruction in mathematics, the sciences and drawing shall show application and use of these subjects in industrial life, with especial reference to local industries so that the students may see these subjects are not designed primarily and solely for academic purposes, but that they may be utilized for the purposes of practical life. That is, algebra and geometry should be so taught in the public schools as to show their relations to construction; botany to horticulture and agriculture; chemistry to agriculture, manufactures and domestic sciences; and drawing to every form of industry." 3. "The Commission also recommends that all towns and cities provide by new elective industrial courses in high schools instruction in the principles of agriculture and the domestic and mechanical arts; that in addition to day courses, cities and towns provide evening courses for persons already employed in trades; and that provision be made for the instruction in part-time day classes of children between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years who may be employed during the remainder of the day, to the end that instruction in the principles and the practice of the arts may go on together." These foregoing extracts from this very luminous and suggestive Massachusetts report indicates its scope and purpose and it must be very satisfying to some of the colored educators, especially Booker T. Washington and Hugh M. Browne to read such an authoritative confirmation of the educational ideas which they have advocated for the colored people for the last twenty odd years or more. PRINCE HALL CHAPTER. PRINCE HALL CHAPTER. Prince Hall Chapter, No. 12, Order Eastern Star, entertained the Grand Chapter on the occasion of their Annual Visitation last week in their Chapter room, 5th and Virginia avenue, S. E. The room, which was tastefully decorated with flags, flowers and palms, presented the appearance of a tropical flower garden. After the usual ceremonies the following program was rendered by the members of the chapter: Chorus, "Welcome," The Chapter. Welcome address, Lady K. Wood Harris. Instrumental Solo, Lady J. F. Nickens. Recitation, Lady Willie May Harris. Solo, Selected, Lady R. P. Hughes. Essay, "Faith," E. B. Lucas. Chorus, "Eastern Star," The Chapter. After a few remarks by Past Grand Patrons, Sir Knights Jackson and Bamfield, the Grand Royal Patron and Grand Royal Matron, a buffet luncheon was served by the refreshment committee under the direction of the Chairman. Lady Wilkinson. WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY MAY 19, THE CHRISTIAN CONGRESS. Rev. I. Garland Penn was in the city a few days ago and informed the local committee that has in charge the coming Christian Congress that it would be necessary to postpone the date of that congress from July to August. There seems to be a great deal of satisfaction among the local committees and opposition of the people to the personnel of many of the committees. The charge is that the congress is too one-sided. The Methodists have secured all the important chairmanships and a majority of the membership of the several committees. The Baptists have been hardworked and those who were instrumental in making up the personnel of the several committees and electing certain officers don't attend the meetings any more. Money is slow coming in and up to date there is not two dollars in the hands of the treasurer. The outlook for a successful Christian Congress is very slim. Rev. Garner, the chairman of the printing committee, is without funds to pay the expenses of printing. The Methodist organ of which one of the committee is chairman has all the printing done at the Methodist concern, thus discriminating against all other denominational printing offices. There has been a great deal of dissatisfaction J M. over the principal officers. Many charge that too much politics and other tricks have developed since the appointment of the several committees. Favoritism has been the prevailing sentiment in the makeup and appointment of the several committees. The postponement of the Congress to August has caused a lack of interest on the part of those who attended the first meeting. Many of the leading Baptist and other denominations have lost all interest in the Congress. A meeting of the several committees has been called to convene in Shiloh Baptist Church for the purpose of raising funds to defray the expenses. A little over two hundred dollars have been collected and expended and not one hundredth part of the expenses have been paid as yet. Many claim now that Rev. Scott doesn't take very much interest in the Congress since his return to the Metropolitan Church, and many disgruntled members of the committees are not pleased. David Ruiker at Bloom of Your Potomac U. amounted to the $112. Benedict Best, chaplain of 1365. The officers of H. Coleman, D. Williams, Deputy Brown, D. G. D. G. Treasure, D. Director. D. G. Marsh was assisted by of Rising Sun Among the members of the Orchid Houston, Grand M. in America; L. delegate to Thomas H. Writ association; Past West, J. W. M. Webster and C. Secretaries C. "JIM CROW" IN THE BUREAU. It is now reported that the color line is being drawn in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In the new wing of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing sixteen lockers have been erected, eight for white girls and eight for colored schools. Between these lockers is a wooden partition that separates the white and colored girls. A white woman is employed to attend to the lockers designated for white women and a colored woman takes charge of the lockers for colored women. The Bee would like to know by whose authority Jim Crow lockers have been established in this department. It is not believed that Secretary Shaw knows anything about this Jim Crow corner in a bureau under him. A fuller investigation will be made by The Bee. AMONG THE ODD FELLOWS. The annual thanksgiving exercises of the Order were held at 8 o'clock Sunday evening last at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, R street between 12th and 13th streets, N. W. The services were under the auspices of the Executive Committee of D. G. L. No. 20. Every seat in the large auditorium was occupied by the members of the lodges and Households of Ruth, while the galleries were packed to suffocation. District Grand Master James H. Coleman presided and Coleman Horner, P. N. FaSimon Lodge No. 102 acted as master of ceremonies. As Miss Louise Clark played the organ preclude the members of the order entered the church. After the anthem by the junior choir, invocation by the D. G. L. Chaplain, Rev. S. R. Jennings, Scriptural reading by Rev. C. H. Parker and chanting of the Lord's Prayer by the church choir, Isaiah Brown, the D. G. secretary, read the proclamation by which the members of the Order were assembled. The District Grand Master then introduced Dr. M. W. D. Norman, pastor of the church, who preached the thanksgiving sermon, which was one of the most logical, pointed and impressive discourses ever heard by the Order in this jurisdiction. The collection taken up by P. N. F.'s V David Ruiker and Thornton Rhodes of Bloom of Youth Lodge No. 1368, and of Potomac Union Lodge No. 8924 amounted to the unprecedented sum of $112. Benediction by Rev. Luke D. Best, chaplain of Rising Sun Lodge No. 1365. The officers of the D. G. L. are; J. H. Coleman, D. G. Master; R. F. Williams, Deputy D. G. Master; Isaiah Brown, D. G. Secretary; J. W. Lee, D. G. Treasurer; Geo. W. Thomas, D. G. Director. D. G. Marshal William M. Samuels was assisted by W. H. Ricks, P. N. F. of Rising Sun Lodge No. 1365. Among the many representative members of the Order present were W. L. Houston, Grand Diretor of the S. C. of M. in America; Chas. H. Harris; D. G. L. delegate to the O. H. Association; Thomas H. Wright, president O. H. Association; Past D. G. Masters T. H. West, J. W. Muse, J. B. Askins, D. B. Webster and C. H. Brown; Past D. G. Secretaries C. B. Walker and J. N. Lawson and E. W. Watson; Past D. G. Directors J. L. Turner, Geo. R. Rhone, J. T. Cole, J. W. Bagly, H. Hunter, J. H. Wylie, W. C. Gray and Geo. T. Beason, captains of the Washington and Georgetown Patriarchie. It was with profound regret the vast audience learned that the absence of Mrs. Mary A. Parker, the D. M. N. G. of the H. of R., was caused by her continued illness, and that Mrs. Ellen G. Jackson was the only representative of the D. H. of R. present to represent the board. The ladies of the various Households highly complimented John H. Lee, P. M. N. G. of Household No. 2203, who so efficiently performed his duty as Marshal of the twenty-three Households of Rush. Rev. E. E. Ricks of Rising Sun Lodge No. 1365 and pastor of St. John's Baptist Church, Arlington, Va., began on the first Sunday in this month to preach --- a series of sermons at 11 A. M., as follows: May 6, subject, "He Outwalketh Death." May 13, subject, "Amusements, Helpful and Hurtful." May 20, subject, "Trial of a Great Criminal." May 27, subject, "Baptism—Its Mode and Importance." Baptizing at 1 P. M. and the Lord's Supper and reception of members at 3 P. M. Several prominent pastors have been invited and will attend this service. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS The District public school system will be governed by a Board of Education appointed by the judges of the District Supreme Court, instead of by the District Commissioners, and this new board will enter upon its duties July 1 next, if the action taken by the House of Representations Tuesday afternoon is approved by the Senate and the President. By a vote of 143 to 67 the House passed the Morrell bill, reorganizing the public school system and carrying the Foster amendment, providing that the Supreme Court of the District shall appoint the Board of Education. The bill and the Foster amendment had been favorably acted on Monday afternoon by the House sitting as a committee of the whole, and the vote to-day was simply a ratification of the action taken Tuesday afternoon by Mr. Babcock to secure a debate on the Foster amendment, with a view to striking out the provision. Mr. Foster, however, thought that this was not necessary, as it had already been debated, and he called for the previous question. The vote was then taken. As the bill now stands it increases the salaries of all teachers. It is considered a victory for those who have fought to secure a reorganization of the school system and better salaries for the teachers. Mr. Morrell and Mr. Foster received many congratulations on the success of their efforts. But minor changes were made in the bill Monday afternoon after The Times account of the proceedings in the House closed. An amendment offered by Representative Champ Clark, "the teachers' friend," was adopted, providing that teachers called before the Board of Education to answer charges shall have the right to be accompanied by counsel and by one friend. Mr. Burleson of Texas, who maintained a sharp scrutiny of every part of the bill while it was under discussion, moved that the salary of the assistant Superintendent of Schools be reduced from $3,600 to $3,000. This was adopted, after Mr. Gardiner of Michigan had also stated that he thought the $3,600 a pretty "steep sum." Mr. Fitzgerald of New York objected to the provision carrying two trained nurses for the schools. Mr. Goulden wanted more than two. Other members pointed out that the schools are provided with medical inspectors, and that the nurses are not needed. Mr. Fitzgerald then moved to strike out the "two-nurse provision." His amendment was adopted. During the afternoon the following slight amendments were voted into the bill: Session room shall be a class room in which the regular work of a class of twenty-five pupils is carried on; the yearly increase of $100 for principals of normal, high and manual training schools shall extend only five years, instead of ten years; a similar limitation shall apply to the annual increase of $50 per annum for the directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art and kindergartens, also to assistant directors, to directors of primary instruction, and assistant directors of primary instruction. WILLIAMS AND FAUNTROY. One of the most unique entertainments will be held in True Reformers' Hall, May 24, 25 and 26. These two gentlemen and their dramatic company will be presented by Mr. W. R. Griffin, chief of the Washington Division of True Reformers. Williams and Fauntroy are two good performers. They thoroughly understand their business, and if the patrons and lovers of dramatic art will go and see them they will be treated to a unique and up-to-date dramatic entertainment. ERRATA In the notice of the class day exercises of the Senior class of the Preparatory Department of Howard University the 14th number on the program should have read as follows: Class song, "Loyalty," by class. Music by Mrs. A. V. Chase and words by Mr. Chas. R. Lane. jane Lee THE GREAT ADVERTISING MEDIUM TRY IT! Do you want reliable news? Do you want fearless rite advertisers? Do you want elegant tradet, loud and advertise in THE MAIL! Paragraphic News While the Hornet is taking care of the capitalization of The Bee, it is mixing its own cases, turning its letters upside down, putting perods where they should not be, and losing regard for spelling. "Ye gods, is the Hornet getting on the doty list?" Mr. H. J. Green, who died quite recently in Charleston, N. C., was connected with the R. B. Society of the District of Columbia. The "African Agricultural World," published in Monrovia, Liberia, says that "The Government Bank of Liberia is now a real fact, and is the first in the history of the Republic." Does the Macon Dispatch of Georgia mean that "Howard's Professor of German" is under arrest for murder charge? Has Prof. Enrich Muenter filled that chair at Howard? The Dispatch is misinformed. Petersburg, Va., now boasts of a large Supply Department Store, conducted by The National Pilot Company. The commencement sermon of Tuskegee will be preached Sunday, May 20, by Rev. Henry S. Bradley, a Southern man, and pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Louis. The commencement exercises of Bishop College began on the 11th inst and concluded last Friday, the 18th. In the death of James A. Coye, Michigan loses one of its most prominent Republican politicians. He was also collector of customs at Grand Rapids, Mich. The Star states that Senator Burrows, chairman of the sub-committee of the committee on finance which investigated charges against Wm. T. Vernon of Kansas, who was nominated to be register of the treasury, will make a favorable report on the nomination at the next meeting of the finance committee. Will J. Davis, who was manager of the Iroquois Theatre at the time of the great fire in that building at Chicago, was arraigned last Tuesday on a charge of manslaughter. The golden jubilee in celebration of the 50th anniversary of St. Vincent's Hospital at Norfolk, Va., began last Tuesday with a pontifical mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church. Cardinal Gibbons presided, with Bishop Vande Vyver of Richmond as celebrant. Mrs. Mary Burke, Somerville, and Miss Ida Lee Duncan, who purchased, jointly, the $150,000 house at the north-west corner of 13th and Girard streets, which was built a number of years ago by the late Dr. Hammond, surgeon of United States Army, will conduct it as a seminary. The offices of the district passenger agent and ticket agent have been removede from 15th street and New York avenue to 1417 G street, N. W. George Andrews, a white man, was held in Richmond last week for the grand jury in Henrico county for alleged criminal assault on tra Boyne, a colored girl 10 years of age. For the past week the work of the night forces at the government printing office has been so heavy that the employees have been compelled to work overtime in order to get out the work. Dr. Thomas C. Chamberlin, head of the department in the University of Chicago, says that the earth will be habitable for a hundred million years to come. Prof. Chamberlin declares that climatic phenomena and temperature conditions of the last hundred million years warranted him in offering the foregoing optimistic prophecy. Norman E. Mack, Democratic National Committeeman of New York, stated in Indianapolis last Saturday that the candidates for President of the United States in 1908 will be Theodore Roosevelt and W. J. Bryan. Because the college trustees have accepted gifts from John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, Mary E. Bird, for nineteen years an instructor in the astronomical department of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., last Tuesday tendered her resignation. By the Official Gazette of the Patent Office for the week ending last Monday, 88g patents, trademarks, etc., were issued during that time. A number of odd patents were included in this number. HER WHEREABOUTS? Do you know hert—Miss Liddie C. Ayers, formerly Wytheville, Va. She lived at 128 Mass. Ave., N. E., when last heard from. Any information concerning her will be gladly received by We are compelled to furnish the same inside pages of the paper owing to an unavoidable mishap. M E Not I. The Trust PURITY ICE CO. L St. near K St. Market N.W. 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'Address: 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Mm. Arabella Virginia Chase, 1212 Florida avenue northwest, or THE WASHINGTON BEE, 1109 Eye street north west, Washington, D. L. HIS YOUTH RENEWED MAN AGED 83 GETTING NEW SET OF TEETH. Change in Uncle William Driskill, of Princeton, Mo.—Eyeight Returning, Cutting Molars, New Hair Growing. Princeton, Mo.—A case that is attracting attention just now is that of Uncle William Driskill, of this city, who, in spite of his 94 years of life on this sphere, seems to be getting young and has a new lease of life. He is cutting a new set of teeth, black hair is coming in to supplant the silvery locks and cover he bald spots on his head; he is regaining the sight of his eyes, and he is getting as spry as a man 40 years his junior. Mr. Driskill has always been a man of robust constitution and has had his share of outdoor work. To this, with his temperate habits, he attributes his long life. If he survives—and there seems to be no reason why he should not—he will be 94 years old in June. This change began to come over him several months ago. For a few years previous to that time he had been a little feeble, and had suffered considerably from rheumatism. That trouble is all gone now. He has been blind in one eye for 67 years. The sight of that eye is coming back and he can see reasonably well with it. With all this, his teeth and new hair, he is now almost a new man. Mr. Driskill's faithful wife is also living. She is 67 years old and is in reasonably good health. They have been married 67 years. The old couple make their home with their son, James Driskill, and wife in the southern part of town. An amusing incident occurred when the black hair first began to appear on "Uncle Billy's" head. His son and wife noticed it and thought his head dirty. Mrs. Driskill procured soap and water and tried to wash it off, but it failed to come. An investigation showed the black spots to be hair—and it is still getting bluer. FERRETS TO STRING WIRES Peru, Ind.—The use of ferrets to string the wires in conduits has been a joke for years with the men in charge of the construction work of the Bell Telephone company, but Superintendent of Construction Cline, who is in Terre Hante now, where many miles of conduits are being laid, to be used jointly by the Bell and the telegraph companies, says: "As with a good many other simple methods, we refused to try ferrets because it sounded like a good newspaper story and was impracticable. "But a test has been made, and we know it is the best way to put the lead wire through the ducts. A sort of harness was put on the little animal and attached to it was a strong but light fish line. At the next opening of the duct a piece of meat was hung, and the animal tugged away at his cable of fish line to get to the meat. 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F., No. 127 meets at its office, 608 Bolton street, east, the first and third Monday nights in each month. Rev. S. T Shephard, worthy president. T. P Haywood, W. C. S. 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. 3. Fraternal Sunrise Department, No. 17, meets at Fort Worth, Tex., the first and third Wednesdays in each month. R. R. Sloan, W. P. P.; Henry Henderson, W. P. P.; M. Mathew, W. F. V. P.; I. B. Balenger, W. C. S. Sunrise Department, No. 31, meets at Dallas, Tex., second and fourth Thursday nights in each month. A. R. Brown, W. P. P. S. A. N. Hamilton, W. P. Rebecca Carpenter, W. R. S. Savannah Slaughter, W. C. S. Department No. 13 meets at Lake City, Fla., first and second Monday nights in each month. Joe Dorsey W. P. P. W. M. Pasco, W. F. V P. Giles Duncan, W. C. C. B Bartley, W. C. S. To all Departments of the I. O. N. I. C. of A. Fraternal, the semi-annual pass. word is ready for all Departments. Send for it at once. See Ritual, page 13. I. L. Walton Evergreen Department, No. 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 CHURCH CHASES SALOON. Religious Edifice on Wheels Moves About Town Wherever Most Needed. Philadelphia.—There is in Philadelphia a lively little church which is indulging in a merry chase after saloons of this city, much to the discomfort of the men behind the bars. This little religious edifice is on wheels, and it has instigated one of the liveliest campaigns against the selling of liquor ever waged. This little church always has been a mission church, going hither and yon wherever it seemed to be the most needed, but it has only recently entered so actively upon the temperance field. Wherever the pastor of this perambulating church and his assistant, Harry A. Machey, learn that a man is applying for a license in a new district they wait until the application has been filed and then, picking up their little church, walk to within a few feet of the spot, plan their edifice and then enter protest against the establishing of a saloon. Fourteen times—and it has been working only a few weeks—has this church chased a would-be saloonkeeper out of business. It always has a congregation of more than 50 souls, and so can rightly term itself a thoroughbred church, with all accessories accorded to a stone edifice. The congregation almost gleefully follow their vagrant church and they have grand rally meetings after every successful fight against the establishment of a saloon. It will not be long before other mission churches on wheels will enter this crusade against the selling of liquor, and they will be able to put up one of the biggest fights ever waged against the saloonkeeper. They have the law with them and the sheer humor of the situation will render a would-be saloonkeeper helpless with the judge. Th mission is a substantial-looking wooden church with a seating capacity of 250. The pastor is a man of means and a number of influential temperance advocates are backing him, so that the money is always forthcoming when he desires to lease a lot for his church, and he feels it no hardship if the exigencies of the case make him deem it wise to set the wheels of his church moving before a lease has expired. He always secures the land for the very shortest possible time, subject to renewal, and thus, while not binding himself and his church unnecessarily, he lends an air of permanency to the action, which justifies him in telling the judge that he does not know how long he will remain. TROUBLE OVER TOWN LOTS Muskogee, I. T.—There are 115 towns in Indian territory in which the government has not yet completed the sale of town lots. The first towns that were appraised and the lots sold under government supervision are now making final settlement and every day the Indian agent sends out hundreds of notices to the principal chiefs that final payment has been made on lots in the various towns. Some peculiar conditions have arisen and without relief legislation the government will never be able to close the townsite business. In some of the towns there are lots which are not worth the appraised value, and they have never been sold, as the government cannot accept less than the appraised value. There will have to be legislation allowing authority to make disposition of such property. Again there are hundreds of instances where purchasers have made payments in lots, but have not made the final payment. The deeds cannot be issued until the final payment is made. These payments must not run over 60 days past due, and ten per cent. interest is charged, but there is no way to enforce the payment of the interest or the last payments either. If the purchaser wants to let the property drop. In such cases the property reverts to the tribe and there it stands. They are found in every one of the 300 government towns in the territory. It is believed by the townsite department of the Indian agency that such relief will be provided in the Indian appropriation bill this session of congress. Russians Want Mines. The Chinese governor of the province of Hallungkaling, in northern Manchuria, having reported to Peking that the Taotal in charge of the mines in his province had handed over possession of a number to the Russians, the Taotol was arrested and sent down to be dealt with by the Viceroy Yuan Shikai. The Russians meantime require that the Chinese government shall recognize their title to the mines so acquired. German Official Out By direction of Emperor William Foreign Secretary Tehrsky, at Berlin, has accepted the resignation of Baron von Holstein, chief of the department of higher politics in the foreign office. This action retires from public life a personage who more than any other has been responsible for German foreign affairs since Prince Bismarck's time. Pigeon Plays with Kittens. A. Hanford, of Spottsylvania, county, near Fredricksburg, W. Va., has a pigeon which has taken a great fancy to a family of little kittens at his home. The pigeon will go in the box where the kittens are, fight the mother away and play with the kittens until he becomes tired, then fly off and return later. RARE BLUE TOPAZ FOUND IN AFRICA. Recent Announcement C erable Stir Among L. Numerous Variet the Stone. London.—The public fested in the discovery what is believed to be has revealed some conf to this class of gem. In addition to the tr times called "Brazilian are the yellow variety sometimes called "Orie most lustrous gem of value, and the yellow quartz, known as "Scogorm' topaz, which large quantities, and The true topaz, howe these stones only in co casily distinguished by hardness and specific Leopold Claremont, the lapidary. It is a tru crystallizing in the generally occurring in prisms, and is to be different shades of yellow green, white, blue, and pale red. Some of the dark yellow specimens can be alterate pink by careful heat. Nearly all the pink the market have been use the technical term this way. Next to the in value comes the blue topaz. Although somewn the aquamarine in color effect, these varieties are brilliant owing to their ness. The localities in which curs are, among other beria, Asia Minor, Pegu, toria, Bohemia, Saxony (U. S. A.) and Japan. The climens, however, are der Brazil and Siberia. The of the topaz in Brazil are N Villa Rica and Nevas named being generally used tion with the white var beria the topaz occurs in tricts, notably the Alta, mountains, near Nertchin in Kamechatka. If the recent announcement of the discovery of the blue top, the property of the African top, occurs in Rhodesia be due to yet another source of supply, the variety of the gem is a SEIZE RARE OLD PICTURES. Bangor.—United States customary thorities at Vanceboro made use of the most important seizures in cases on December 30, and the matter has been kept dark until now. The articles seized were four rare old paintings, with an appraised value of $100. The first known in Bangorcerning the pictures was an advertisement preliminary to the sale of the paintings by the United States marshal, which appeared in a Bangor morning paper. Two of the pictures are about feet square each, and represent gorles. They are valued by the customs authorities at $250 each. The third is a beautifully done land with a cathedral for the principal feature. This is appraised at $ The fourth is a very old portrait of a gentleman in velvet and neck is appraised at $1,060. The paintings undoubtedly from Paris to St. John. The sent from there to MacA from thence brought across by team to Lambert Lab they were found and seized customs officers. The price now in custody of United Marshal Mayo and will be sold on April 27. American Bulls for Bu- Texas bulls have never been used in the arana, but F. Robert has selected a few for a breed and the fight will be held Sun. The will be the first time in the history of bullfighting that American bulls have been entered for the bull and aficionados are anxiously awaiting for the corrida. Perhaps the bull may not be far distant when the American ganaderias may furnish Mexican rings. Woman Mineral Survey Miss May Bradford, of Palm Cal., is believed to be the only purly mineral surveyor in the United States. She filed a $10,000 bond and proving her fitness has been given commission by Surveyor Generals. Reno. She has several contracts for surveying large mining properties in the mountains near Tonquin and Goldfield. The Oregon's Long Penna When the Oregon went to San Francisco harbor recently from Virginia she flew a homeward-bound train from her masthead 553 feet. Her necessary repairs will call for annual reconstruction. Broncho to "Bust It is alleged that the president retary, Mr. Loeb, was recently thrown by a broncho. As soon as the president gets time, remarks the same airtight, the broncho will be property. Fire Engines in Australia Chemical fire engines are used in Sydney, Australia, and they are likely to be used largely hereafter to check bush fires during the summer months. very other hour on the odd hour." Diner, Pullman Parlor. Buffet, Parlor 5 Hr.Train Diner and Pullman Parlor Diner and Pullman Parlor Diner and Pullman Parlor "Royal Limited." All Coaches to Philadelph Diner and Pullman Parlor Coaches to Philadelphia. Sleepers. Sleeper. tts. 7.00. $9.00 $11.00a.m. p.m. E Hour on the Hour. with Pullman Service. 1. 100.6.3.1 = 100. 20.5.8. 2. 110.1.2 m. (2.200 D000) 3. 100.4.00. 4.15.500.5.01.5.30. 4. 100.5.00. 4.15.500.5.01.5.30. 5. 100.2.00 10.00.11.00.8 m. 6. 100.5.30 5.12.600.10.00 m. IRSTWARD. AND NORTHWEST $1.00 ST LOUIS AND LOUISVILLE 12 15 night. 6 193 m., and 2005 a.m. * 30 p.m. BREX 10.05 am $1.35 am $1.05 $5.00 p.m. BCHR. FR 13.55 am $1.05 $5.00 p.m. BRA. 1.05 days 72 o. a. m., 12.05 a. m. $5.00 p.m. ... Sanda. 1.00 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. ERA 1.00 N. 0.5 m Th ghparlor PREDEV K. $35. $9.15 $10.05 $11.00 a. m. 10.05 p. m. BAGER N. $11.05 a. m and $5.00 m. BURA A. $10.05 $3.15 $9.15 a. m. 3.15 p. m. $10.1 $11.20 p.m. GUTHER-SURG and way points 15., 15.3 a. m. $10.15 $7.30. 15.30 p. m. $10.15 $11.20 p.m. BARN-JUNCTION and way point $9.05 a. m $10.15 $5.30 p. m. Sunday (Sunday only) and checked from hotel Union Transfer Company or offices 619 Pennsylvania av hore avenue and Fifteenth BALMORE AND OHIO TERMINAL WENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK CITY. A passenger train of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad to and from New York have direct ferry connection and Street Terminal, in addition Liberty Street; the South Ferry Ter- minal, has been discontinued. Inertial Street is the most popular terminal of the great metropolis because of the convenience to the hotel, theatre and shipping district. In the term inertial the terminal building is the city was constructed under which the cross of the 14th, 23rd, 28th and 29th Streets pass, so that passengers are protected from the weather leaving the town house, and also avoid the area of street traffic. All luggage destined to New York City is delivered to 23rd Street unless marked "Liberty Street," or otherwise. A complete electric cab service has also been established for the transportation passengers and baggage at very reasonable rates. The importance of 23rd Street is most important brought to attention in the August issue of the Book of the Royal Borough by the passenger departure at the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Into the Heart of Gotham the interest centers within the 23rd street, Fifth ave. and Browway Full page photo- graphics detail present a most thus most interesting events for copy to D. B. M. Passenger Traffic, R. C R. 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A 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, 23 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 Cabinet street, where he was overtaken by Night Watchman Peter Clark, who led him back to the hospital. Brown was clad only in hospital pyjamas and his feet were bare. The temperature outdoors was 15 degrees above zero. 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Lew Wallace, arrived here after walking the greater part of the 120 miles between Des Moines and Iowa City. Despite the fact that he owns nearly 240,000 acres of land in Texas and a fine residence in Bloomington, the old hero of the Mexican war, who had been robbed of his traveling funds and watch in Des Moines, chose to make his way to friends, near Kaloma, Ia., and seek 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 granteed models $10 to $24 per - 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 heiress 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 impeccunious 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." 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 Maxiener 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 Performs Most Difficult Household Duties with Skill and 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 lands 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 Carolus 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 Stud That Is Pro- Holyoke, Mass.—Another of the many great public movements that have their inception in this city of this 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 stuff that steals away men's brains. It is also, found that young men and old men who have their faces bathed 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 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 full 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 $7 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 confidentially declared that the use of bay rum had 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 Edwin 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. Jersey Girl's Enterprise 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 Savannah, 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. Beward, Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis and John J. Crittenden. No Kiazae for Smokers Rev. W. Mayo, of Bristol, informed the annual meeting of the British Anti-Tobacco and Anti-Marcottie league at Manchester that 600 girls in his city have removed to "have nothing to do" with boys who smoke. Five boys have taken the situation seriously, for one youngster alone has plodged 550 of his comrades not to smoke. THE BEE PUBLISHED AT 109 Eye St, N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. On copy per year.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three Months.....6.00 Subscribe monthly.....20 VERBUM SAP However Americans may boast of what they call their civilization, the fact remains that, according to the accepted definition, no such thing has as yet developed in this country. It is true that certain republican doctrines have been more or less impressed upon the popular mind; doctrines pregnant with noble sentiments, involving universal suffrage, equality of all men before the law, the right of the majority to rule, publicity and the inherent right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. But these doctrines and sentiments have not yet crystallized into local and national practices, consistent therewith or become fused into anything like homogeneity. On the contrary, America is distinguished by the absence of a distinctive civilization, as applied to the entire country. Governmental formulae and social criteria are now determined by geographical limitations, one form of social organization predominating in the southern part of the country and another in the northern part. These forms differ in fundamental judge in the case of a claim of a master: "No, not until you show a bill of sale from the Almighty." On the subject of slavery the South has been emphatic. Senator Brown of Mississippi declared slavery to be "a great moral, social and political blessing—a blessing to the slave and a blessing to the master." Mason of Virginia said that slavery was "ennobling to both races, white and black;" and McDuffie of South Carolina that "the institution of domestic slavery supercedes the necessity of an order of nobility." According to the laws of slavery enacted under the influence of such sentiments as above expressed, a slave could be "marked like a hog, branded like a mule, yoked like an ox, hobbled like a horse, driven like an ass, maimed like a cur and beaten like a brute." In the contest for Independence the South displayed its opposition to republican principles and attachment to aristocratic and Tory ideas. In 1790 the populations of the North and the South were nearly equal, being about one million eight hundred thousand each, yet the North furnished 172,465 troops while the South furnished 59,336 to the Continental army. In this respect John Adams complained to General Gates when he wrote "all our misfortunes arise from a single source, the reluctance of the Southern colonies to republican government." Considering the basic theories, sentiments, rules of conduct and practices out of which the respective so-called civilizations have sprung, it is not surprising that today we find two distinct and opposite social and political forces vigorously and desperately contending for supremacy. The South contends for the theory of the natural superiority of all white men over all black men, without regard to environment and in spite of all the incontestible proofs of the fallacy of the theory. And upon this the whole South is arrayed against every agency and instrumentality through which the equality of man may be demonstrated. The institutions of the South, political, social, civil, educational and religious, are operated with the view to the destruction of every vestige of manhood and privilege of citizenship now claimed by the black man and declared in the organic law of the land, and his reduction to the level of the chattel and slave, which they have always claimed was his natural and normal condition. This may be seen in the stubborn opposition on the part of the South to every attempt to accord the negro his Constitutional rights. Lynchings, burnings, disfranchisement, robbery and braggadocia are the chief instruments used for the complete humiliation of the negro and in justification of their nefarious doctrines. The mask of hypocrisy is now boldly discarded, and instead of pretending friendship for the negro, who has been the largest contributor to their wealth, they openly and boldly declare their enmity toward him and defy interference of any sort whatever. And so apparent has been the policy of aggression that the negroes, who have been loth to believe that the Southern white man was capable of such gross injustice and unkindness, now see the drift and are fast fleeing from the house of bondage. On the other hand, the natural tendency of Northern institutions must be from the nature of the theories and sentiments out of which they grew, favorable to universal enlightenment and equality. There is but one course for the negro to pursue, and that is to emulate the spirit of freedom, of right, of justice and of liberty, which characterizes the Northern institutions, and strive to cultivate a belief in the ultimate supremacy of that civilization which accords to all men every right to which, according to the law of nature and of God, they are justly entitled. The South may still exhibit its swaggerism in the name of chivalry resort to the bludgeon instead of argument, and exalt lynching and assassination and injustice into the realm of the fine arts, but the steady improvement of the race in moral, intellectual and material growth, aided by a righteous and enlightened sentiment which can be found at the North, will surely eventually place the negro in his true relation to Americans generally—that of loyal, intelligent, progressive and indispensable American citizens. OUR CHRISTIAN CONGRESS For some time certain men claiming to be Christians have agitated a scheme to organize a Christian Congress of all denominations except the Catholics. Every denomination in the Unted States, with the exception of the Catholic Church, is supposed to take an active part in this Congress. After the scheme had succeeded, that is the organization, the office of the president of the congress was then discussed. The Baptists, who are in the majority, have concentrated their forces on the Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, but, for some cause, certain religious political Christians on the Methodist side persuaded the Rev. George W. Lee, the Nestor of the Baptists, to offer the treasurership of the congress to Rev. J. Anderson Taylor. This distinguished divine was hoodwinked into accepting that office. Now what is the result? The Methodists, which consists of the entire denomination of the entire connection, are controlled by the white and colored conferences, have the entire control of this congress and the money, if any is collected, can only be appropriated from the Baptist treasurer by the finance committee, of which the Methodists are in the majority. In fact the personnel of all the committees consists of a Methodist majority. The press and printing committees are composed of a majority of Methodists, and so selfish are these committees that all of the printing, paid notices, reports, etc., are given entirely to the organ of the Methodist Church. The entire congress is a Methodist institution, and The Bee is of the opinion that the people who are not Methodists should not allow the Methodists to run it, because all other denominations are being used as figureheads. There is some politics in this Christian Congress. Somebody wants to be boomed for personal and selfish reasons at the expense of other denominations. Rev. J. Anderson Taylor was the original candidate for the presidency, but he was flattered to such an extent to accept the treasurership, and before he knew it, he was caught in the Christian religious political trap. If the deluded members of other denominations will carefully read over the list of the several committees they will be convinced that they are the tail-end of the Methodist head. It is claimed that this is the Young People's Congress. The Bee would like to know when the old people will hold a Christian congress. This matter will be more fully discussed and ventilated in the next issue of The Bee. A BAD EXAMPLE A BAD EXAMPLE. The lecture room of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church was the scene of attempted usurpation, bulldozing, blackguardism and general confusion seldom eclipsed in the lowest brothels of the tenderloin districts of New York City. It seems that pursuant to a regular call of Bethel Literary Association the bona fide members met for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year. The meeting was duly opened and the president, Mr. Shelby J. Davidson, proceeded to transact the regulaf business, the first in order being that of the roll call. The secretary had scarcely begun to announce the duly qualified members when a veritable pandemonium was let loose by those who had been induced to pay fifty cents under the false impression that by so doing they would be permitted to vote. Upon finding that the constitution of the A. M. E. Church precluded their participation in the proceedings, the opposing clique inaugurated a method of obstruction and intimidation as audaciously improper as it was ridiculous. Hour upon hour were frittered away in the vain attempt on the part of President Davidson to restore order, until the lateness of the hour. it being now eleven o'clock, a member of the association moved to adjourn. The motion was carried and the duly qualified members of the association left the hall, leaving the officers in statu qua. After the association adjourned a member of the church called his fellow members, mostly women and children, together and proceeded to organize rump society and elected officers. From our knowledge of the conditions there is no doubt that the kickers and incligibles have acted not only not wisely but far from fair or Christianly. The organization, with Mr. Davidson as president, is de facto and it would seem that should the matter be tested in the courts, Mr.Davidson's organization would be sustained. The Republican State Convention met at Topeka on the 4th inst.. one of the largest in many years composed of more than 1000 delegates. Among them were the Governor, ex-Governors, Congressman, State officials, supreme judges, and the rank and file of the party. Professor Vernon was called on to make a speech. The daily papers say he made the speech of the convention, and that it fairly went wild. Seldom has such an ovation been accorded one of its citizens. The Committee on Platform presented the following resolution, which was adopted with the wildest enthusiasm: "The Republicans of Kansas recognize in Professor Vernon a type of all that is best in his race. He is honest, clean and cultured, and we earnestly request the Senate of the United States to confirm his nomination as Register of the Treasury. Could a vindication be more complete? Seldom has a whole State so rallied to one of its citizens as has the State of Kansas to Professor Vernon. The Bee is gratified, for it is an endorsement of its attitude since his name went to the Senate against those who have unsuccessfully endeavored to malign him, jealous of his wonderful strides he has made since he located in the State, towering head and shoulders above every negro in the State. But he is but paying the penalty of those who do something in life. It is quite evident that Mr. Vernon will be unanimously confirmed. The Finance Committee, which has had charge of the case, decided this week to report his case as there was no foundation to the charges. From our observation of the acts, etc., of Hbn. Charles A. Stillings we believe that the President made an excellent selection when he appointed him to take charge of the Government Printing Office. He is a thorough printer and a man of splendid executive ability. He is also a man that has the courage of his convictions. Shortly after Mr. Stillings took charge of the printery he announced to the employees of that office that he intended to see that the "square deal" shall be accorded to each and every one—from the highest to the lowest. Many persons thought that such a declaration was mere "hot air," and meant nothing, but since that time they have found out that the Public Printer is hewing to the line of the Golden Rule (square deal), and that the humblest employee, white or colored, will receive the same patient hearing and just consideration as those higher in authority. In the reorganization and adjustment of affairs at the Government PrintingOffice we would not be surprised to see the Public Printer make some innovations in the way of appointments and promotions of some of the worthy colored employees. BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Bee begs to inform the Senate of the United States that this Codfish Civic Club doesn't represent the colored people in the District of Columbia. The colored people respectfully request Senator Foraker or Senator Allison to amend the school bill so that it will authorize the judges of the Supreme Court to appoint three colored persons on the Board of Education. This Civic Club is composed of a lot of sundown daughters, lawyers and after-office-hours individuals who have nothing to do after they have eaten their dinner. Many of them are men of leisure or soft job hunters who can hardly represent themselves. Many of them are interlopers and meddlers into other people's business. We do not believe, however, that the judges who will have the appointment of the new board will be broad-gauged enough to give the colored people three members of the Board of Education, notwithstanding that such a provision is silent in the bill. These crab meat eaters and ice cream tasters should take a salt water and red pepper dive. About three years ago a certain member of this self-constituted association had the impudence to offer a resolution in one of the meetings to the effect that none but college graduates should be appointed in the public schools. The individual is from the South and a quasi college graduate. It is only a question of time before this character of men will attempt to enslave the colored taxpayers in this city. RENOMINATED. The Hon. George Alexander Pearre of the Sixth Congressional District of Maryland received the congratulations of his constituents this week by a unanimous renomination for Congress. The opposition dwindled down to a love feast for the young Napoleon in politics. The other fellows were doing the talking while Congressman Pearre was doing the thinking and execution. Now that he has received the indorsement of his party, the small opposition should come together and elect him. 500 MEN WANTED. Elsewhere in this paper is a notice for 500 men wanted at once. Mechanics, section hands and section bosses are wanted. We want good and reliable colored men. Call on or send in your money at once. Read notice elsewhere. What of it if Col. Deveaux has served a second term as collector of customs; are there not white men in this State and elsewhere who have served equally as long and been reappointed? Was there any fight on them on this account? This proves that the fight on Col. Deveaux is simply on account of the race that he represents. His competency and conduct of office is not being questioned. The President will never be able to make a more deserving appointment. Col. Deveaux has given more and longer years of service to the party than any person in this section. He has worked for the party at times when men of Mr. Cuyler Gordon's party did everything to intimidate Republican vote, not alone by ballot box stuffing, but by shot gun method. From a standpoint of business and citizenship, Col. Deveaux is more entitled to the position than any of his opponents. This is his home and he has been an important factor in the development of the city and fully able to manage his own affairs, hence the excellent condition in which the Custom House since his incumbency. The question of the race that a man represents "cut no figure" with the President, but it should be only, that of worth and ability; if the latter is considered then there will be no question whatever of Col. Deveaux's reappointment. He stood on the pavement before the store, He was reckoned wise among his fellow men, And was numbered among the great And they laid their homage in the feet As a ruler of the State. But there alone in that fem' be crowd He stood like a trembling clave. A fatal focus of withering eyes. And he longed for the cold green Oh, a man may gain a death's remembrance. And all fame that the world can give But if caught in a woman's good crowd To the disappointment of the crews of Hon. George Alexander Pearce of the Sixth Congressional District of Maryland, at a full meeting of the Republican State Committee this week he was unanimously renominated for Congress. It was one of the most stastic gatherings of Repull has been held in Montgomerie for you Mr Pearce J. HON GEORGE ALFN LR PEARRE constitution, innovation and dent that he will receive a larger plurality at the next election than he received before. The wiser heads came to the conclusion that Congressman Pearre has faithfully served the party and he was the man to be again trusted to head the Republican forces to victory next fall. Mr. Pearre's record in Congress has been one of admiration. He is a man who loves his constituents and has faithfully served them. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH From the Wide Angle Editor Chase of the Washington Bed is advising the negro to join the Catholic church. This gifted newspaper man says there is less prejudice in the Catholic heath than any other religious organization in the United States—Victoria (Tex.) Guide. Yes, suppose all should follow the advice, don't you think before very late the same complaint would prevail in the Catholic church as it does elsewhere? The best church in the world for the negro is one of his own making in our judgment. One more leap as long as that takes by the Washington Bee last week will land it high and dry into the Booker T. Washington camp. W. Calvyn Chase is a square-toed enemy, and he is likewise a square-toed friend. He is getting his sanity on straight these days, and the race is a great gainer thereby CHASE'S INCONSISTENCIES From The Frederick Hornet If our readers will just take the pain to read the clipping on this page from the editorial page of Editor Chase's paper on "How to Eliminate Jim-Croism," they will find a case of molecular inconsistencies. It is in the use of capital letters. Mr. Chase is one of the few colored editors who persistently use a small "n" in spelling the word "Negro. So in this article he does the same thing, but when he comes to the most repulsive word in the English vocabulary, he is every instance dignifies it with a capital letter. And that word is "jimcrow Mr. Chase uses both a capital letter at the beginning of "jim" and "crow" Ye gods, what is the matter with Editor Chase anyway? Is he getting or the doty list? TOO MANY. From The City Times. There are entirely too many presidential appointments in Texas going only one way, particularly when there is a large number of colored voters of the Republican party faith and who do the real voting. Why, the Democrats are now treating the colored people with a many outrageous insults as they get from the party of their friends. Do it stand to reason that out of nearly 4000 colored Republicans in Texas that none can be found of sufficient character, ability, etc., to get a presidential office? Isn't it a fact that real recognition of such people's strength to the party is to come through the position given at the hands of President Roosevelt before the race can boast of past treatment. The TO SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers for The Bee are notified that no collector will be sent to them for subscriptions and they will either call and pay or send a check or postal money order. The management will put annoy subscribers with collectors. Address, B. L. C. Subscription Department of The Washington Bee, 1009 Eye street, N. W. Mr. of the Richardson of Georgia with visiting friends. Mr. N. Naholk has gone on a visit to beaches in Augusta, Ga. Mr Walter Grimshaw, who spent a few days in Baltimore, has returned. Mr Bob Jones has returned to his home in Charlotte, N. C. Mr Claes Jones has gone on a visit to Virginia. Mr G W Brough went to Baltimore to her sister, Miss A. Jackson. Mr F. L. Collier left the city a few cars and for Atlanta, Ga. Mr G W. Scott has been confined to vigilance, but is now "up and down." John E. Colline who had a deep operation performed last week, is air to be out. Res. J. Anderson Taylor, who left for Richmond, Va., last week, has returned to the city. Mrs. Lucy McClung, who was at the funeral of her brother, has returned to her home in Parkersburg, Va. the friends of Mrs. Eliza Stunnet of Baltimore made her trip to Washington Grace Campbell of our kindergarten spent two weeks visiting kindergarten schools of Grand Rapids. She was the guest of Mr. Mrs. L. L. Johnson John P Green has accepted an invitation to deliver the annual address to the graduating class of Manassas Industrial School May 30. Mr. Bell Contee of Denver, Col., arrived the city last week and is the present mother, Mrs. L. V. Contee, 1512 12th street, N. W. Attorney John W. Patterson went to New York last week. It is reported that he will present Earnest Hogan at Contee Hall in June. Mr. Fila V. C. Williams of Abbe T. S. C. accompanied by her husband and children will visit this city in Aug. Mr. Laura V. Contee of 1516 12th street N. W. announces the marriage of her daughter Ette to Mr. George Young of Detroit, Michigan, to take place the last week in June. A reception was given to Rev. S. L. Luthers last Monday night by the members of Galbraith Church. Recorded by C Dancy presided Addresses were made by Bishop G. W. Clinton, Mrs. O J W. Scott, S. A. Chambers, at South Carolina, and Rev. A. C. Garrett and others. Rev. Corrothers was highly complimented for his work in the church. Mr Stewart M. Lewis, chairman of the committee on resolutions, reported a resolution highly complimenting the and requesting his return. The institutes report showed that $400 had been collected during the year. Bishop Clinton, was presented with letters and Rev. Corrothers with the reception was one of the that has ever been held in that Rev. Corrothers left for conference Tuesday. GALBRAITH CHURH SERVICES SUNDAY A. a. m—Ritual Serviaer con- died by Rev. Basil Chase. Atyp m.—Christian Endeavor. Atyp m.—preachirg byth: Rev. Dr A. Garner of Plymouth Con- grational Church. INCORPORATED. President Davidson and the officers of the betho. Literary and Historical Association have been incorporated under subchapter 3 of the Code of the District of Columbia. Among the supporters of President Davidson are H. C. Tyler Justice E. M. Hewlett, Jesse Lawson, L. M. King, Thomas H.Wright, J. W. Cromwell, Geo. W. Cook, T. M. Dent H. L. Houston, J. A. Lankford, John P. Green, Robert Pelham, Geo. W. Jackson, Miss Maria Jordan, Miss Ella M. Boston, Robert H. Terrell, Dr. J. L. Board, F. M. Simms, R. A. Hughes, M. T. Clinkscales, J. L. Neal, Geo H. White, Thomas L. Jones, L. B. Moore and others. THE BETHEL LITERARY IN A NEW ROLE. The staid old institution, the Bethel Literary and Historical Association of the A. M. E. Church connection, which was organized by Bishop Daniel A. Payne nearly a quarter of a century since, and which has been the pride of the colored people of this community and nation, suffered a shock last Tuesday evening to which the seismic eruption at San Francisco was but an incident. The regular call was issued by President Shelby J. Davidson for the election of officers on the evening mentioned. From an authoritative source it has been ascertained that the pastor, Rev. O. J. W. Scott, and a few submissive church members were preparing to rush in a crowd of people not members of the Literary, to defeat the election of any save a church candidate, who was Miss Marie A. L. Madre, teacher in this city, and who joined the Literary only two weeks prior. True to this report, at 7.30 o'clock the lecture room was filled with persons, mostly women, of the church and not of the church, who were being registered by its with the secretary of the Literary by Mr. J. Tyler Hill, who also joined the Literary about two weeks since, and Miss Madre. When the meeting was called to order, President Davidson, on being asked for a ruling as to qualified members, read from the Constitution governing the Literary! Section 14 of the by-laws. "Application for membership shall be made in writing or by a member of the Association, and when publicly announced shall be recorded by the Secretary, unless objection be raised; then the name shall be referred to the Board of Management." Under this section, the president ruled that objection being made to the roster of new members, only those who were qualified members on May 2, 1905, and before, and who had qualified since October 3, 1905, were entitled to vote. Mr. Gregory noted an appeal which was ruled out on constitutional grounds, and Dr. Scott attempted to take charge of the meeting without warrant of law or authority, which was resisted by the president. Dr. Scott' then said it had been the custom to so vote, and that if the Literary would not consent to abide by the custom and allow all who had qualified, regardless of Section 14 of the by-laws, to vote, he would take charge of the meeting and have the church membership to conduct elections. It then developed that Dr. Scott had placed himself in an awkward position, from which he endeavored to recede by asking for harmony; a proposition was made for the withdrawal of all candidates who had been mentioned, and that a committee of three from each side be appointed with power to select a seventh, who should bring a nomination. This was submitted to Dr. Scott privately, at which time he accepted it, but three feet from the spot he renounced his position. 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These glasses are worn in the best style and the finest periscopic lenses are used. These glasses can't be duplicated for less than $2.50, but we will offer them 3 days only, including a scientific examination of your eyes, for only $1. SELINGER'S F Street, Cor. Ninth. was not bound to follow what in the light of reason, good judgment and common sense was fraught with harm, injury, injustice and a baneful effect on the association, and that he stood by his ruling and the law. Dr. Scott was then challenged as to his position in packing the house, which he frankly admitted to the disgust of many of his followers and the membership of the Literary. It being impossible to proceed under the status of affairs, the Literary adjourned, announcing a meeting for the 22nd at the church. After the adjournment the followers of Dr. Scott organized a meeting without the Literary or any contingent thereof, and, is is reported, elected officers for the Literary. Such a scene has never been witnessed in the history of the Association, and was one of the most pronounced departures from any organized deliberative body on record. The officers of the Literary still constitute the Literary, notwithstanding the action of Dr. Scott's followers. President Davidson has issued the following call: Washington, D. C., May 10, 1906. Dear Friend: The annual election of officers of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association will take place on Tuesday evening next, May 15, in the parlors of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, adjoining the lecture room, at 7.30 sharp. A prompt and full attendance is urgently requested. Members who have not paid their annual dues for the season of 1905-6 or since October 3, 1905, may qualify with the secretary on or before the date of election. The administration desires to thank you for that aid, co-operation or influence you may have contributed to the success of the year. Very sincerely, Shelby J. Davidson, M. Grant Lucas, Cor. Sec. Attorney A. W. Scott made a most vigorous speech. He was eloquent and logical. The supporters of President Davidson consisted of the actual members of the association, suchable men as Prof. Geo. W. Cook, L. M. Hershaw, Dr. Geo. H. Richardson, Prof. M. Grant Lucas. He also has the support of Prof. Kelly Miller, Miss Ella M. Boston, and the entire organization of active members. After the meeting had been declared adjourned by almost a unanimous vote of the actual members of the association, which was the regular meeting, Rev. Scott called the members of his Sunday school and church together and elected another set of officers. LOCAL: BUSINESS LEAGUE There was a large meeting of the local Business League held last Tuesday night in the True Reformers' Hall. President Lankford called the meeting to order, after which there was a war of words over the report of the secretary and the appointment of a committee on constitution. At the conclusion of the discussion the following committee on constitution and by-law was appointed: W. Calvin Chase, L. B. Smallwood, W H. Davis, C. H. Watson and Daniel nce." that yields indemnity practically proper care?ashes? They eyestrain, wearing of FREE. charge of a pair eyes ab-glasses he Only. $1 acquainted lenses are made scopic lenses duplicated for them for examination 'S, Freeman. The committee will report new constitution at the next meeting. THE KEMPER SCHOOL Arlington, Va., May 18, '06. The closing exercises of the Kemper Public School of South Arlington, Nauck, Va., will be held in Lomax A. M. E. Zion Church Friday evening, May 25 at 8 o'clock P. M. Miss Ella M. Boston is principal and Miss M. E. Holmes is assistant principal. The principal address will be delivered by Attorney Thimas L. Jones of the District bar. Music will be furnished by Dr. W. R. Franklin, Mr. Charles R. Thompson, Miss Louise Evans, accompanist, and Rev. Edgar E. Ricks will preside. 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You will find all the new styles here in well-made goods that you can be sure will give good service. Prices are all marked in plain figures, and nowhere are reliable grades sold for less money. Cooking in the summer time is unendurable unless you have a gas stove. You can get one here whenever you wish, and pay for it in small amounts that you will never miss. Peter Grogan Between H and I Streets. STRAIGHTEN YOUR HAIR. OX-MARROW POMADEHAS A MAGIC EFFECT ON CURLY HAIR AND MAKESIT GROW LONG AND STRAIGHT. OX-MARROW POMADEHAS A MAGIC E CURLY HAIR AND MAKESIT GROW LO STRAIGHT. MAGIC EFFECT ON OW LONG AND SPECIAL OFFER. Present this coupon and ten cents and we will give you one full sized bottle of Ox-Marrow Pomade. AGENTS FOR MADINOLA COMPLEXION People's Pharm SEVENTH AND EYE STREETS, NORTHWEST PURE DRUGS POPE NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON CANDY B 1614 14th street, N. W. All kinds of delicious ice cream delivered free. $1.00; one quart, 25 cents; one pint, 15 cents. Our Candies Made Daily. Chocolates, Bon Bons, Taffy and drops of all kind pound. The Jane Moseley Steamb IMPLEXION CREAM. armacy NORTHWEST POPULAR PRICES IN CANDY KITCHEN, served free. One gallon nts. Daily. Sons of all kinds ten cent. eamboatCo AGENTS FOR MADINOLA COMPLEXION CREAM. SEVENTH AND EYE STREETS, NORTHWEST PURE DRUGS POPULAR PRICES. NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON CANDY KITCHEN, 1614 14th street, N. W. All kinds of delicious ice cream delivered free. One gallon $1.00; one quart, 25 cents; one pint, 15 cents. Our Candies Made Daily. Chocolates, Bon Bons, Taffy and drops of all kinds ten cent pound. The Jane M seley SteamboatCo ```markdown ``` The colored race is advancing in business. In the District of Columbia they now control a first-class side-wheel steamer, "Jane Moseley," 200 feet long, 35 wide, equipped with 30 staterooms, lighted by electricity, licensed and inspected by the U. S. Government Inspectors to carry excursion parties to all points on the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. The steamer has larger and better accommodations than any other steamboat that is for charter to the colored race. In the District of Columbia they now control a first-class steamer, "Jane Moseley," 200 feet long, 35 wide, equipped with lighted by electricity, licensed and inspected by the U. S. Governors to carry excursion parties to all points on the Chesapeake tomatic River. The steamer has larger and better accommodations other steamboat that is for charter to the colored race. All churches, organizations and private parties who contemplate cursions should investigate this enterprise and get all informal terms and accommodations before chartering any other boat. CALL US ON 'PHONE,' MAIN 1779 OR CALL ON JEFFERSON S. COAGE, Secretary, LEWIS JEFFERSON 1911 Eleventh Street, Northwest. 1901 First Street Church to excel (a) "A New Heaven and a New Earth," by Mr. Carter, and (b) the Choral Sanctus, "Holy, Holy, Holy," by the choir. shall of Philadelphia, tone of that city. It is dition did not fully nitions of those of our m ool a first-class side-wheel equipped with 30 staterooms, the U. S. Government Inspect the Chesapeake Bay and Poor accommodations than any race. as who contemplate giving ex- other steamboat that is for charter to the colored All churches, organizations and private parties who contemplate giving excursions should investigate this enterprise and get all information concerning terms and accommodations before chartering any other boat. CALL US ON 'PHONE, MAIN 1779 OR CALL ON JEFFERSON S. COAGE, Secretary, LEWIS JEFFERSON, Manager, 1911 Eleventh Street, Northwest. 1901 First Street, Southwest. --- CREDIT FOR ALL WASHING-TON. CREDIT 817-819-821-823 Seventh Street. Mr. Thomas H. Withers of the War Department still lies dangerously ill at his residence in East Washington. The cantata, "Holy City," was sung at St. Mary's P. E. Chapel, 23rd street, between F. and G., N. W., last Sunday evening. The principal soloists were Miss Constantia Brown of Baltimore, the well-known contralto, and Mr. Mar- IS NOT A CANDIDATE ROBBINS DECLINES TO RUN FOR GOVERNORSHIP. Former Leader of Coal Operators Said to Be After Senatorial Toga—Has Support of Miners and Indianapolis, Ind.—F. L. Robbins, president of the Pittsburgh Coal company, who held the center of the stage during the heated coal conferences in this city, in which he broke away from the "stand-pat" operators and stood by the side of John Mitchell for the readoption of the 1903 scale, has absolutely declined to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania. His stand in the coal conference placed the 250,000 voting Pennsylvania coal miners behind him and also gave him the support of the labor unions of the great industrial state. The United States Steel corporation crowd and other great industrial interests in Pennsylvania also were urging him to make the race and insisting that, though certain railroad interests would line up against him, the nomination would be given him on a silver platter. The railroad interests have been turned against him because of his stand at Indianapolis. He not only opposed and fought the policy against an advance in wages adopted by the bituminous railroads and their railroad coal companies, but his stand also was opposed to the interests of the great anthracite coal railroads. 'On top of that he assisted John T. H. PRANCIS L. ROBBINS. (Prominent coal Operator Who Has De- igned a Gubernatorial Nomination.) Mitchell, in the Indianapolis con- ference, in showing that the railroads owned bituminous coal mines, and that their ownership brought demoralization to the trade and to wages. Robbins was born in Ripon, Wis., in 1855. In college he was an athlete, and especially a crack baseball player. He attended Cornell to complete his education. His athletic days he turned to account well. He built up wonderful reserve energy that has served him so well in the long battles in Indianapolis, lasting three and four days and nights with hardly a break. He has turned his muscle into millions and is now known as "the world's largest coal operator and a multi-millionaire"—the employer of 70,000 men. In 1890 Robbins was a large individual operator when he evolved the plan of consolidating the coal companies in the western Pennsylvania district. The Pittsburg Coal company, which has matured out of that thought, has numerous subsidiary and allied companies; it has its own freight cars, its own docks on the lakes, its own lake boats, its own mining towns and it mines, with its subsidiary companies, 21,000,000 tons of coal a year—almost double the normal output of all of the mines in Indiana. Robbins has invaded Ohio and has established his interests in the Hocking valley through half a dozen companies, and he has planted the Illinois Collieries Company in Illinois. It has eight mines, with an output of 1,500,000 tons a year. He dominates the coal trade over the great lakes. For many years Robbins was the leader of the operators in the joint conferences with the miners in Indianapolis. Because of his "change of heart," which caused him to desert the "stand-pat" forces of the operators, he was officially deposed in the special conference in Indianapolis and J. H. Winder, of Ohio, president of the Sunday Creek Mining company—the second largest producer—was elected official chairman. Robbins was not only deposed but practically ejected and denounced. His usual composure was not ruffled in the least. He moved over to the miners' side of the house and sat down between two colored delegates from Indian Territory. From that position he dissented from the stand of the "stand-pat" operators, who, he said, threatened to precipitate a great industrial panic on the country. He offered to readopt the 1903 scale with the present conditions and he has done so and put his men to work. Had it not been for Robbins' stand a national suspension of mining would have been certain. Though Robbins has declined to be a candidate for governor, it is understood that when the time comes for him to slip into the United States Senate he will not move to same reluctance. And in this plan he will have the support of the miners, who say they have always found him a hard fighter but a just opponent. A LOG FROM GRANT'S CABIN Interesting Relie of Great General Presented to War Department Ly President Roosevelt. Washington. — President Roosevelt has presented to the war department for its historical collection a section of a log from the cabin which Gen. U. S. Great built for his family near St. Louis after his resignation from the regular army before the opening of the war of 1861. The section is from a log which was used in making a frame presented to Andrew Carnegie acknowledging his gift of a million dollars to the library association. The relic was sent to the president by C. F. Blanke, of St. Louis, who purchased the cabin and presented it to the city of St. Louis for preservation in Forest park. It was exhibited at the St. Louis exposition and attracted much attention. As the president had no suitable place to display "HARDSCRABBLE," GEN. GRANT'S LOG CABIN HOME. the frame containing the section of wood he sent it to the war department, where it will have a place in the reception room of the secretary of war. A descriptive book sent with the relic shows pictures of the cabin as it stood on Gen. Grant's farm and recounts the history of how Grants built the cabin as a shelter for his family in 1854, at a time when he was considered a failure by his relatives and friends. RECORD OF AN EARTHQUAKE Seismographic Diagram Showing Motion Caused by Shock in Japan in 1887. Chicago.—When at the time of an earthquake the ground moves to and fro the diagrams obtained from seismographs show that a particle has followed an extremely variable course. The accompanying diagram is not of a tangled skeleton of yarn, but is the picture of the vibration in an earthquake. It was made by a seismograph during an earthquake in Japan in 1837 and shows the complicated motion of a single point of the earth's surface. The diagram is multiplied six times. The minute preliminary AN EARTHQUAKE RECORD. tremors have a range of motion measured by a small fraction of a millimeter, while the pronounced movements have a horizontal range of motion of anything between a millimeter and a foot. A movement of one or two millimeters will be strongly felt. If it reaches ten millimeters it is dangerous, while if it exceeds 20 millimeters, about three-quarters of an inch, it is certain to be accompanied by the shattering of chimneys and walls and other forms of destruction. Oxygen Used to Cut Metals. Oxygen Used to Cut Metals. Diamond may cut diamond, but oxygen cuts metals, at least at Liege. There there is a daily exhibition of the Jottrand process for cutting metals by a jet of oxygen. The apparatus consists essentially of a tube with two brandels terminating in blow pipes, moved along a guide in front of the metal plates or part to be cut at the rate of about six inches per minute. One of the blow pipes delivers an anoxyhydrogen name, which raises the metal where it is to be cut to a temperature corresponding with dark red. The following blow pipe delivers a jet of pure oxygen which enters into combustion with the hot metal, thus producing a clear channel like a saw cut about one-eighth inch thick, the remainder of the metal being unaffected by the operating. Farmers Go It Blind. Statistics compiled under authority of the department of agriculture show that there are now 6,000,000 farms in the United States, while there are only 2,471 students in agricultural schools, and 3,936 attending "short courses," which makes an average of only one in 1,000 of those who will have the management of farms, who have studled the principles of scientific farming. Bugar Cane from Afghanistan Under the auspices of King Habibullah, of Afghanistan, the cultivation of the sugar cane in the lowlands about Jelalabad, near the Indian frontier, has become an accomplished fact. Samples presented to him during his visit to that place were so good in quality that he ordered that a large supply of the best kinds of cane silips for planting shall be obtained from India. SEEK INDIAN RELICS HUNTERS OF ILLINOIS OUTNUMBER THOSE OF OTHER STATES. School Museums and State Institutions Have Many Interesting and Valuable Articles as a Result Many Homes Decorated. Chicago.—The public schools of this city have been given much valuable data for Indian history as a result of the work of Illinois relic hunters. Many school museums are furnished almost entirely with the "finds" of Illinois men and women who have given considerable time to such endeavor. One of the largest state institutions has a museum filled with the discoveries of one man and of other persons that he has interested in the work. Illinois now has the largest army of relic hunters of all the middle west states, and it has much to show for its work. Not only have the public institutions a wealth of historical articles, but private homes are filled with them. If one were to start out to look up the homes in which relics are stored, one would find a large proportion of them decorated in one way or another with the quiet things that have been picked up from the former hunting and burying grounds of the aborigines. In no other community are Indian relics found in such rich variety as in the northern Illinois counties; there is no place where there are so many professional hunters, nor are there bunched, to speak, in any one locality in the United States, so many people to whom officers of the Smithsonian institution at Washington have written letters. Marcus W. Cole, a farmer banker, who went to Dekalb county 50 years ago and who is now a resident of Kingston, has decorated every room in his house with Indian relics, and the walls of his banking room are adorned with quaint designs made from arrowheads and other Indian curiosities. Mrs. Cole died a few years ago, and the only daughter, the wife of Judge Pond, of Dekalb, assists her father in his business and helps to treasure and display the great variety of things that the red race left behind. In the Cole home and bank there are not fewer than 15,000 arrow THE BLAZED TRAIL TREE. heads alone. The pestles and grinding stones and bowls number more than 100, among them some of the rarest ever found. A large proportion were found in Dekalb county, many of them near Kingston, but there are others from a dozen different counties of Illinois and from Indiana, Oregon, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Georgia, Canada and Mexico. There are homes in almost, every Chicago suburb that have large and small collections of these "finds." There are probably 500 homes in Dekalb county in which they are displayed in unique ways. In the city of DeKalb there are not fewer than 50 persons who make it a point to look out for such things. Jacob Heckman, of Kingston, has gathered such articles from a majority of the states of the union, and he at one time contemplated making a map of the United States, each state to be covered with the particular kind of arrowheads that belonged to it, for there are many different kinds of these sharp-pointed stones. H. W. Fay, of Dekalb, is the leader of a crowd of hunters that already have stocked the museum of the Northern Illinois State Normal school. The hunters, found one relic that they were unable to carry off. It is known to be an Indian trail tree. Indians were accustomed to bend and blaze trees to mark trails, and in the county was found one that plainly bears historic marks. Jacob Heckman tells how difficult it is to part with Indian relics after they have been found. He had a friend who wanted one of his tomahawks, of which Heckman has a large collection. One day he got out the entire lot and tried to make up his mind as to which one he was willing to part with. But he discovered that there was a distinct reason why he should hold each one of them and that is what he did. Heckman relates that some queer influence prompts people who hitherto have had no interest in such things to develop a sudden yearning for them. He says that when he was told of the Wisconsin mounds, he found them on the farm of a Norwegian, who told him to dig around all he wanted to and to keep what he found. Finally the farmer came around to look on, and as one article after another rolled out he was moved to rescind his generous offer. He wanted at least a portion of them and would have been glad to have kept all that were dug out. Was Built by Stephen Field, an Electrical Engineer, and Ban in Stockbridge, Mass. Boston.—In a little shed in Stockbridge lie the remains of the first trolley car ever constructed in this country. It was built there by Stephen Dudley Field, an electrical engineer, who is still living in the town, but who is employed in important electrical enterprises all over the country. The famous Cyrus W. Field was Mr. Field's uncle, and his first introduction to the electrical business was in 1858, at the time of the completion of the Atlantic cable. Another uncle was Stephen J. Field, for 33 years on the United States a prime betta- The toll-free cat was built in 1930. Mr. Field has been planning for it two years previous to that time. He had been connected with the California works at San Francisco. He came east in 1878, with the plan for the trolley partly outlined in his mind. Franklin L. Pope, who was a telegraph operator in Stockbridge at the beginning of his career, was then in New York, and the two men talked over the scheme together. Plans for a conduit circuit, vertical and lateral adjustment, almost identical with the present sys- THE ORIGINAL TROLLEY CAR. tem used by the New York street railway, were prepared by them and sent to the patent office in Washington, where they were allowed to mold for some time. But in 1880, Mr. Field decided to put his theory to practical test in his small experiment station in Stockbridge and the test was wholly satisfactory. In August of that year he invited a few of the prominent townpeople to examine the trolley car built for two, which spun around his shop with complete ease and a good deal of speed. Mr. Field declares that this was the first electrical road ever constructed in the world. He next equipped a trolley line for the business exposition of railroad men at Chicago in 1883, and there was run the first public trolley. The tracks were laid around the exposition building and a fare of ten cents was charged. After wearisome delays and litigation over patents, Mr. Field finally sold out to the General Electric and Westinghouse companies in 1896. Since that time Mr. Field has been chief engineer of London capitalists in building electric railways on the continent. One of his contracts called for the building of 90 miles of road between Canton and Geneva at a cost of $4,000,000. Mr. Field's father, Jonathan Field, laid out many of the trees in Stockbridge and did much to preserve the beauty of the main street in the village. Stockbridge citizens recall his indignation at what he termed the "vandalism of the trolley," and that when the first telegraph line passed through Stockbridge he headed a band of citizens who chopped down every telegraph pole in the village. Former Indiana Man May Represent Oklahoma in House If It Is Made a State. Laporte, Ind.-In the event that Oklahoma territory is admitted to statehood by the passage of the Beveridge bill Nelson S. Darling, Jr., a native of Indiana, son of Dr. Nelson S. Darling and brother of Dr. Harry B. Darling, editor of the Argus-Bulletin of this city, will be boomed with every assurance of success for the Republican J. NELSON S. DARLING, JR. (He May Represent Oklahoma in House If It Becomes a State.) nomination for congress in the Oklahoma City district. Darling is not yet 30 years of age, but as an orator he has a reputation throughout the west. While Darling expounds Republican in the west his brother, Harry B. Darling, in this city edits a vigorous Democratic newspaper and is also a conspicuous figure as a campaigner. The Oklahoma Darling has campaigned under the direction of the Republican national committee. F. S. Pearson, of Great Barrington, Mass., has purchased 1,600 acres of forest land in that vicinity, including part of Bear mountain, and will permit the timber to grow for the added beauty and benefit of the section. DAVIS FOR SENATOR ARKANSAS GOVERNOR TO SUCCEED JAMES H. BERRY. "Cornfield Lawyer," Nominated at State Primaries by Popular Vote, a Picturesque Being—Is a Crafty Politician. Little Rock, Ark.—Arkansas is going to send to the United States Senate Gov. Jeff Davis, who is, like Tillman, a "cornfield lawyer," and proud of it. Stald old Senator James H. Berry has been defeated in the state primary, and Davis' nomination by the Democratic party is believed to be equivalent to election. He is a politician who flourishes at close range with a constituency that depends upon oral, not printed, campaign arguments. He has been attorney general once, and thrice governor. He is 44 years old. "Jeff," as he is familiarly known, knows what turn will please the class of voters which he wishes to reach. The absence of an issue is no bar to him. He is the issue himself. He always has appealed to the "back country" farmer and the laborer, playing upon their sympathies and on their prejudices. He is a good story-teller and a man of great personal magnetism, which he knows how to employ to advantage. In his campalgnus "Jeff" devotes the greater part of his time to the smaller towns and to the country districts, for here his strength lies. In his first campaign for governor Davis devised an appeal to sympathy which incidentally proved a great advertisement for a proprietary medicine, and he went through antics that a street fakir could well have copied as an aid to selling the compound. Charges of trickery and fraud were being hurled at him, from which he claimed he was under great nervous strain. He would stop in the middle of a vigorous address, the perspiration pouring from his face, and dramatically uncork a bottle and pour the contents down his back and bosom. He was charged by his opponents with spending more money for this medicine than for his railroad fare in the campaign. His recent race for United States senator was devoid of many of the pic- A. GOV. JEFFERSON DAVIS. ("Arkansas Jeff," Who Will Undoubtedly Succeed Senator Berry.) GOV. JEFFERSON DAVIS. ("Arkansas Jeff," Who Will Undoubtedly Succeed Senator Berry.) turesque plays which indelibly impressed his personality upon the minds of the people of his native state. "Do you know what is the matter with those fellows down there in Little Rock?" he would say. "I can tell you. They're mad. They're mad as can be, because they're not in office any more. I turned the whole set of high-collared roosters out when I was first elected your governor, and put the men from the plow handles in their places." For all that, he had a well-oiled, efficient political machine. In his second campaign for governor Davis wore an old white hat similar to those worn by the residents of the districts which he visited. A pair of home-kult white socks could be plainly seen above his shoetops, while fastened diagonally across his shoulders would be a single suspender strap. "Those city folks down there won't speak to me," he would say. "I'm not dressed up enough for them," and off the coat would come and expose the one "gallus." Before his third term as governor Davis made a campaign for vindication, so he styled it. He had been charged with appropriating part of his contingent fund, allowed by the state, to his personal use. He was arraigned before a special committee of the legislature, and impeachment was much talked of, but it failed. "I am a strong believer in the principles that the United States senators should be elected, as they are in this state, by popular vote," said Senator-Elect Davis, in a recent interview. "The people ought to select the officers, without the legislature, and in this way do away with the fraud and corruption in the legislature in senatorial matters. This will give the poor man a chance." Davis recently closed all the gambling houses, pool rooms and Sunday saloons in Hot Springs, and appointed a prosecuting attorney, on the recommendation of the ministers of that city, who, he believed, would enforce the law. This followed a coolness between him and the Hot Springs officials, who were for Berry in the senatorial race. Davis political promises always have been made good after election, and he has made tactful use of his appoinitive power. He is quick to see a deception, is a master of details, knows "everybody in Arkansas," and is conceded to be a good lawyer. Paris—It is agreed on all that the dominant figure in French cabinet is not Sartre, premier and the minister of nor even Bourgeois, the foreign lster, but Clemenceau, the ma of the interior. Clemenceau came into war in France on the revolt that followed the Fran war. He is credited with vised the Boulangist movement, by advocating exures against Germany in the defeat suffered by Fran war, acquired a wide There was a plot on the locals, anarchists and Orcas make Boulanger dictator 40 GEORGES B. CLEMEN FAY (Minister of Interior and Mar- tial French Cabinet) rard cabinet was formed for the purpose of suppressing this impover- Boulanger was sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped and died in exile. The failure of Boulanger and the Panama scandal turned Clemen out of politics and he entered the newspaper field. Clemenceau is a genius. He is master of a biting style of oratory. He is called "Wrecker of Ministries." He is a brilliant journalist who reduces his enemies to powder, as he did in the Dreyfus case. He is an excellent hand with a rapier on the duelling ground. He is a doctor of medicine and publishes treatises on anatomy. He is a metaphysician who comments profoundly on Mill's theories. He is a Greek scholar and an authority on modern and Byzantine literature. He is also a novelist, whose chief romance, "The Stro goest," is counted a masterpiece. MUCH HORN FROM ONE ELK Six Pairs of Great Antlers from Large Specimen Made Into Chair for the President. Tacoma, Wash.—The elk "Roohvelt," from whose head six sets of antlers were preserved and made into a chair for the president, died recently in this city in captivity. The animal was an unusually large specimen of the prairie elk and its antlers are said to be the largest grown in the northwest. The average male elk in a lifetime grows and sheds 125 pounds of horn. The six antlers in the president's chair weigh 11 THE HORNS OF THIS HAIR WE ALL GROWN BY ONE HIN pounds. The two'sets which form 'back and front are among the largest antlers on record. There is practically no material other than bone used in the chair's construction. The prongs are adjusted in a way that gives the chair considerable hardness, and only a few steel bolts were used to hold the antlers together. The chair is valued at $1,000 and was presented to President Roosevelt by the citizens of Tacoma. Drummers in Switzerland England was represented in Switzerland last year by 53 commercial travelers; Germany, which enjoys the lion's share of the Swiss import trade, employs an army of nearly 5,000 "drummers," and is followed by France, with 1,386 of these enterprising agents who annually sell $40,000,000 worth of French merchandise. England Buys Parnell's Home. The old Avondale house and estate in County Wicklow, once the home and property of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish nationalist leader, has been purchased by the government, which will turn the place into a forestry school for Ireland. The rooms formerly occupied by Mr. Parnell are to be kept as they were in his lifetime. FISHPMENT OF ANTIQUES FROM ITALY AGAINST THE LAW. Beware Penalty Imposed for Exporation of Articles of This Class Under Any Misrepresentation. Washington.—The following report from Consul Caughy, of Messina, regarding regulations of the Italian cus-ture has special interest to tour- According to the regulations now in force, all goods coming from Taormina, Sicily, for shipment as freight to any foreign port, upon the arrival at the ship's custom house in Messina must be paid at the shipper's expense to the manneither at Palermo or Syracuse examination by experts, to discover the goods contain any antiques. The declaration that they do not contain such artifacts bears no weight whatsoever. An antique is found which meets under the law which forbids its exportation it is selzed. If it is of a case that can be exported, by payment of an export duty, it is released when that possession is compiled with. If, however, this article be found in a package which was entered for exportation upon a declaration stating that nothing antique was contained therein, the shipper is subject to a fine which may be as much as 5.44 I have now on my hands a case in pent of an American artist who has had Taormina, who, upon his detainment, packed all his belongings to Messina for shipment New York. He declared the contents of these effects. When examined were found numerous antiques of the town, but of little value, and which were not all purchased in Italy. The authorities decided that they could be paid upon payment of the duty, but they must pay the fine for false for the reason it would be well if persons contemplating visiting Taorma be warned of the existing condi- ture. The antiquarian who sells a piece of furniture will naturally not find the interest to inform his customer information, therefore I would request the only safe method for the pursue would be to stip- that payment is only to be made wet the bills of lading of the steamer which his goods are embarked are on his hands. Last season this received numerous complaints from busiers who, only too late, dis- dired that even after they had paid the goods they could not export The conditions at present are such that a person not conversant with the law may purchase a genuine antique from a dealer only to discover that the importation of his purchase is actually prohibited and his only recourse is to take a legal claim against the seller, which is a most expensive proceeding." NO FUNERALS ON SUNDAY. Mine Ind. - heeding a popular reward of Sunday funerals, the trust of Bla. Grove cemetery, in Munt- sage used an order forbidding accumulation in that cemetery on any Friday on January 1, May 30 or other day, of any year except in the great necessity or contagious issue. This order is not to take heaven until the first day of the year. After that time, there- fore be Sunday funerals in Ville the burials must be made in the country cemetery or in some place. memory trustees give the fol- low their reasons for this ac- cident of the Lord's day, as it is attended by bands of mu- hundreds of curiosity seek- ers often accompanied by an for display on the part of real mourners;" services are held in a frequently disturb the of that church; ceme- nies not often visited on Sun- ternal funeral serves to excite unity and causes visitors being ground to trample and to "disregard the de- should attend such occa- sionary funeral is in viola- decalogue which says: the Sabbath day to keep use it necessitates work of the cemetery employees. masters are heartily in fa- man and it is believed the be also. Paper Goes Around the World Peter Goes Around the World. Two or three months ago a Guthrie woman made a copy of a Guthrie paper to a friend at Ladoga, Ind. At least that was where she intended to send it, in writing the address the letter on the two last letters of the note making it "India." So across the ocean traveled. The Indian post office could find no town there by the name of Ladoga, and sent it back to the country. After months of travel it finally turned up in the Indian town after having visited Bombay and a number of other Indian cities. Growth of Cuba's Trade Cuba ranks second in importance in trade transactions with the United States to other American countries, according to a report just issued by the department of commerce and labor. For the fiscal year 1905 these countries ranked as follows in the volume of their American trades: Canada $25,000,000; Cuba, $125,000; Brazil $111,000,000; Mexico, $92,000; Argentina $29,000,000. ARTILIERY IS INADEQUATE. Washington.—Some surprising facts regarding the inadequacy of the coast artillery force were brought out in the recent examinations of Secretary Taft by the senate committee on military affairs. The secretary presented data showing that the present authorized force of coast artillery is sufficient to provide one relief for only 34 per cent. of the guns, mines, range finders, etc., now actually installed or authorized for the coast defenses of the United States. This is exclusive of reserves, supports, etc., and is based upon the actual number of officers and men required if the entire force of coast artillery could be mustered in line and each man marched to his position. It was also shown that there is an average shortage of more than 30 per cent. in the coast artillery companies, and that less than 25 per cent. of the defenses can be actually manned by troops now in service. In case of a sudden outbreak of war 75 per cent. of the coast defenses would have to remain idle until such 'time as volunteers or raw recruits would be trained to handle the high power guns, mines and position finding system. To oblate these conditions, Representative Hull, of Iowa, has presented a bill in congress which carries increased pay for certain grades in the coast artillery that require technical skill. SINGULAR NEW DISEASE. Man Afflicted with "Soul Blindness" Cannot Bead or Recognize Pictures. Berlin.—The latest thing in the line of diseases is soul blindness, the name having been deviled by Prof. Schuster, of Berlin. It appears that the professor lately had a patient under his care suffering from a lack of mental association. The man was educated and spoke coherently, but could not read; the printed characters conveyed no meaning to his mind. His senses all appeared normal, and there was no indication of physical disease. He could recognize and name all the objects around him; but printed words, or sketches of the simplest objects, he was utterly unable to name; in fact, to quote the words of the professor, "He could not tell a boat from a tree or a house." The tacency advanced by Prof. Schuster to account for this peculiar condition is, that the connection between the eyes and that particular portion of the brain concerned in the association of ideas has been severed in some manner, and until that connection is restored, the condition will continue. From what he has seen of the patient, he considers it extremely doubtful whether this important junction will ever be effected. HORSE SAVES A CHILD. Pet Animal Seizes Little Girl's Dress with His Teeth and Drags Her from Canal. Jersey City, N. J.—According to a story told to the Jersey City police the other day by Mrs. John Patrino, of 315 Pamrapo avenue, her three-year-old daughter Anna was saved from drowning by a horse named Charley, which is owned by her husband. The house and stable are near the Morris canal, and Anna is in the habit of playing on the canal bank. The horse, which was a pet of the child, was running up and down the field, when Mrs. Patrino saw the child topple over into the water. She ran screaming to the canal, but before she reached it, she says. Charley had selzed the child's dress with his teeth and dragged her to safety. As the mother reached them Charley set the child gently at her feet. When Patrino heard his wife's statement he said Charley should have a padded stall and an extra feed of oats every day of his life. The police weye inclined to doubt Mrs. Patrino's story, but it was corroborated by two of her neighbors. Millionaire Taxdodgers The business people of Newport, R.I., are filling the air with lamentations over the departure of the rich New York colony that formerly gave the town its chief claim to distinction. Mingled with the lamentations, are curses for the meddlesome taxgatherers who by their perilicious activity have driven away the geese that produced the golden eggs. The merchants insist that the officials ought to know that a New York millionaire will never retain his residence where he is obliged to pay taxes. It is necessary to choose, it seems, between the privilege of taxing the plutocrats and selling them groceries. Housewife for Every Soldier. The war department has decided to furnish every soldier in the army with a housewife. This announcement though made with full authority, need cause no flutter of joy in the hearts of the waiting army of spinsters, for the "housewife" is not to be the helpmeet and partner that the bond of matrimony gives to man, but only a part of the soldier's kit. It will not exceed four ounces in weight and will contain assorted buttons, thread, needles, safety pins, ordinary pins, and if practicable, a small pair of scissors. Printing Outfit in Bank. Linotype machines are being installed at the Bank of England, and in future the addresses on the dividend notices sent out will be printed, instead of written by hand. ENGLAND GIVES -UP EXPERIMENT WITH RECRUITS. London.—Remarkable testimony to the growth of physical degeneracy in the nation is contained in the annual report of the director of recruiting and organization. In a table furnished by the army medical department it is shown that the percentage of ordinary recruits who are rejected on medical grounds is progressing upward at alarming speed, and has risen from 29.04 in 1901 to 37.21 in 1905. The following figures speak for themselves: 1901. 1804. 1905. Number inspected. 46,749. 46,749. 46,749. Number rejected. 22,265. 21,658. 24,798. Percentage of rejections. 29.04. 24.39. 37.71 Defective teeth are stated to be materially responsible for the increase. While in 1891 the ratio per 1,000 of men rejected on this account was 10.88; the ratio in 1904 amounted to no less than 70.61. Some time ago the army council decided that recruits who were only ineligible for enlistment owing to defective teeth might be accepted if they paid $15 to be supplied with artificial teeth and undertook to keep them in order at their own expense. A considerable number of recruits, the report states, alllisted under these conditions, but the experiment has not proved a success, and has, it is announced, been discontinued. Recruiting shows a marked falling off last year, both as regards the regular army and the militia. The number who joined the regular army was 35,963, and the militia, 29,941, decreases of 6,679 and 6,233, respectively, compared with the previous year. A new departure in recruiting has been made during the year by the appointment of eight retired officers as recruiting officers in large towns where it was considered that the population was such that good recruiting results might be expected. The number of men who returned to civil life from the colors last year was 31,321, of whom 25,362 were provided with employment. Eight of these were found posts as clerks in the war office. It is pointed out in the report that pay in the army has been so largely increased of recent years that there is no doubt that it compares favorably with that of the unskilled laborer in civil life. The government's decision to maintain a large number of troops in South Africa has determined the war department to increase the instructional gymnastic staff of the army in order to keep the system of physical training at its present high level. One officer and four sergeant majors are to be sent to South Africa at an early date to carry on the work of gymnastic instruction there, and further instructors will be appointed to schools and districts at home. REMARKABLE LONGEVITY. Negro Woman in Chicago Lives to Be Almost a Century and a Quarter Old. Chicago.—At the extraordinary age of 123 years, Mrs. Philo Rogers, a negro woman, died the other day at her home, 6223 Ada street, in this city. Mrs. Rogers was born in Missouri and reared a large family long before the first mutterings of the antislavery sentiment. agitated New England. She was a grandmother when the Missouri compromise was an issue of the hour and had reached her three score years and ten when the emancipation proclamation liberated her from bandage. Little of her early history is known, as all whom she had known in her ordinary lifetime long ago have been forgotten. She came to Chicago some years ago and was in good health until a short time ago. Then the weaknesses of her advanced age took effect and she failed steadily until her death. To Mecca by Rail Soon. The Hedjaz railroad which is to unite Damascus with Mecca, is being built for the purpose of carrying pilgrims to and from the latter, the Holy City of Mussumans. For the larger part of its course of some 1,200 miles it will pass through deserts, idle and unfertile regions. Still, it will benefit some of the country about the Jordan, a district whose crops have no market on account of the waht of transportation, and branch lines for commercial and industrial uses will be constructed. From Damascus to Maan, about 400 miles, the road has been doing business for some months. The Germans superintend the job. Turkish soldiers do the work and they don't get union pay. To Mecca by rail, personally conducted! The world is growing smaller every day. Home Grown Tea. This year 12,000 pounds of choice tea will be shipped from what is at present the only tea farm in the western hemisphere. This farm is at Somerville, S. C. In the face of difficulties that at times seemed insurmountable, but on the other hand with the kindly assistance of the United States government, the Somerville tea farm has grown to a point where it can offer serious competition with the best grades of tea shipped from China, India, Formosa or Java. But, above all, it has demonstrated that, barring the question of labor, the finest tea can be successfully grown at home. tutorials PLAIN FOOD BEST FOR ALL Government Chemist Says the Rich Should Stick to It as Well as the Poor. Washington.—"It is as necessary for millionaires as for the poor to live on brown bread and other inexpensive and nutritious food," said Prof. Harvey W. Wiley, the government chemist and food expert, when requested to discuss this subject in connection with the fact that J. Pierpont Morgan, Lord Millner and Alfred Belt dined on brown bread, fish and vegetables in London. "It is not necessary from a financial standpoint, but because such simple fare is good for the man and will make him healthy. All these foods are nutritious and furnish the body with the fuel necessary to prolong life and promote health. "Beef, graham bread and potatoes furnish a diet good for the millionaire and the pauper. This is a comparatively cheap and well-balanced ration, containing all the elements of nutrition necessary to sustain life. "This diet does not recommend itself because of its cheapness, but because it is wholesome. It is especially good for persons who, by reason of having eaten too great a variety of foods and drunk too much wine, have worn out their digestive apparatus. "It is necessary for such persons to return to a simple diet and it does not matter whether the person is J. P. Morgan or a beggar, the food I have recommended will put him in good physical condition. It is the simple food that was intended by nature that man should eat. "Of course, fish could be substituted for beef, as has been done in Mr. Morgan's case, but in my judgment beef is better. Fish is not so palatable as beef, and while it contains a great deal of nutrition, it is not so good for a weak stomach, and beef is better because it keeps away hunger longer than will fish." LIONS AND WOLVES ANNOY Washington.—The Wichita reserve in Oklahoma, which President Roosevelt set apart as a refuge for game, is overrun with wolves and mountain lions, and many complaints have been received from cattle and sheep raisers. John Goff, the hunter who acted as the president's guide on his hunting trip of a year ago, even with his skill, has not been able to exterminate the lions, and cattlemen and sheep raisers are hoping that the president will make another trip to that section and that he will bring with him all his friends capable of handling a rifle. Practically similar conditions exist in the Gila reservation in New Mexico. Stockmen complain that because of the establishment of these reserves where wolves and mountain lions take refuge and cannot be hunted, they have increased to such an extent as seriously to threaten their business. Before the establishment of game refuges, stockmen by offering bounties for the stalps of wolves and mountain lions managed to keep them down. Stockmen say that unless the government takes some action looking toward the extermination of these beasts it will not be possible for them to continue grazing their herds in or near the reserves. CARVED THE NAME OF POLK Inscription on Beech Tree in Indiana Made Nearly Sixty Years Ago. Franklin, Ind.—On the farm of Martin Sellers, near this city, stands a small beech grove, in which is a stately monarch, in the bark of which is imbedded the inscription, "James K. Polk, 1848." The inscription is still plainly legible, and bears the earmarks of enthusiasm on the part of some young and embryonic statesman, nearly 60 years ago. The present state of the letters is indicative that the person carved entirely through the bark, as the edges of each one show that they were cut too deep to be overgrown. The date would imply that the person carving the letters was desirous of seeing Polk renominated in the fall of 1848, but if this surmise be correct, he was disappointed. The inscription probably is of 58 years' standing. Disease May Kill the Race. Dr. Seale Harris, professor of medicine in the University of Alabama, at Mobile, talked to the president today about the ravages of consumption among the negroes of the south. He expressed fear—and he added that his opinion was concurred in, by the medical fraternity generally in the south—that the negro race was likely to become extinct in this country through the ravages of disease, especially consumption. Statistics showed, he declared, that the death rate among the members of the negro race in America was greater than the birth rate. Longest Route Cheapest. Rather than pay high railroad rates on a shipment of 3,000 tons of scrap iron, the consigners in San Francisco forwarded it to Philadelphia by water and the cargo arrived a few days ago after a 14,000-mile trip around the Horn. The ship left San-Frasisco on November 24, 1905, and weathered gale after gale on her long run from the Pacific to the Atlantic. It is probably the first cargo of the kind ever shipped from the Pacific coast to Philadelphia. STOCK QUARANTINE. VIOLATIONS OF ACT IN OKLAHOMA ARE FEWER. Guthrie, Okla.—That the live stock quarantine laws of Oklahoma and the federal government are being respected in this territory is shown by the fact that there were fewer violations during the last year than at any time since the establishment of a live stock commission here, eight years ago. In 13 cases the defendants paid fines amounting to $2,000, and several cases are still pending. While in Comanche country some trouble has recently been experienced, the firm attitude taken by the territorial authorities has convinced the cattlemen there that the law must be obeyed. These facts are shown in the annual report, just completed by Thomas Morris, secretary of the Oklahoma live stock sanitary commission. He reports great improvement in the territory both in the stamping out of infection and in the sentiment of the people generally and their willingness to assist in the enforcement of the law. Speaking of the reluctance of the people in some localities to furnish information regarding violations of quarantine laws, Mr. Morris in his report says: "If a man steals a $15 pony, the whole community will follow him to Arkansas and then want to hang him if he is caught. But a man will drive a bunch of ticky cattle across a quarantine line, spread the fever through a whole township and destroy several thousand dollars' worth of cattle, yet no one will give information to an inspector or other officer of the law because they do not want to interfere with anybody's business or injure the ill will of a neighbor." Mr. Morris suggests that as a remedy for this condition of affairs a plan should be started for educating the cattle owners, both as to the nature of the fever tick and the absolute necessity for its prevention where possible. He suggests that the matter be taken up at farmers' institutes, and also by the Farmers' Cooperative union, which is very strong in many sections of this territory. Plans are being made by the commission for an organized effort this year in cooperation with the federal authorities to stamp out the fever tick in Oklahoma. The plan will include a farm-to-farm canvass by townships in the infected area. One inspector with a good horse can canvass a township in a week or ten days. In this way it will be possible to quarantine all infected herds. Secretary Morris states that great benefit has been derived from the action of the last legislature In providing for the employment of several territorial inspectors. He depreciates the fact, however, that the $10,000 appropriation only enables them to work about nine months in the year, when they could be busy the year around. An appropriation of $12,000 would have been sufficient to provide for this, he says. The examination of cattle in Roger Mills and Washita counties was the first work taken up last year. As a result of the work of the previous year it was found that the board could safely recommend the removal of restrictions which required the inspection of cattle from that district. The bureau of animal industry accepted the recommendation and issued regulations permitting the free movement of cattle from those counties. After a range inspection of Caddo county north of the Rock island railroad and Kiowa county north of the line between townships four and five it was recommeded that this territory be placed in the restricted district, which was also accepted by the bureau. Anarchists Swarming Here. According to official information received in Washington, Italian anarchists are arriving in the United States in great numbers at both Pacific and Atlantic seaports. The diplomatic representatives of the Italian government have positive information to this effect, and have brought the matter to the attention of the United States. Baltimore, it is stated, is rapidly becoming an anarchistic center. The Italian consuls are engaged in assisting the immigration officials with a view to locating these men and arresting them. Doctors in Paris Theaters. The Association of Theater Doctors is about to hold a banquet which must be a pleasant reunion. Each of the Parisian stages has about 40 doctors who take it in turn to be present every day at afternoon and evening performances, but in case of unexpected ed engagements the doctor whose turn it is to attend may find a substitute, so that there are few medical men who have not at some time or other occupied the reserved box where the doctor may be found in case of need. Dying After Dissecting Bat. A dispatch from Entebbe, Uganda, to the Dally Mall, states that Lieut. Tullock, accompanying the royal society's commission to investigate the "sleeping sickness," contracted the disease while dissecting an inoculated rat. He has been sent to England to die. Fossil Deposit Found. A large deposit of fossil walrus and mammoth bones has been discovered at Santa Cruz, Cal. MARVELOUS FIND OF GOLD. Mannattan, Nev.—Gold bearing rock, so rich that it is guarded day and night by two sentries and is mined under the watchful eye of the owners, has been opened up at the. 86-foot level in the main working shaft of the Jumping Jack claim. Six inches of this marvelous find is so rich that no assay has been made, as it is more than half gold. From eight o'clock at night, when a row of shots revealed the richest of the many sensational discoveries of the new camp, until ten o'clock the next morning $10,000 worth of ore was sacked. When the miners below holested samples of a six inch vein which was uncovered as it dipped into the shaft, the superintendent immediately ordered the men to the surface and suspended operations until the superintendent of the Jumping Jack could be notified. Upon his arrival two trusted men were put to work stopping out the ore and two others guarding the entrance to the workings. The news fairly electrified the camp, despite the fact that sensational finds are becoming everyday occurrences. Several samples were exhibited by officers of the company, who were beheaded by a crowd which gathered soon after the news of the strike became public property. These samples for size and richness surpass anything that the ground at Manhattan has yielded up to date, and will rank among the largest specimens of gold ever mined in this country. One specimen weighing 23 ounces, six inches long, representing the width of the vein, is almost solid gold. The many seasoned miners and mining experts who examined, this specimen today unite in saying that it is the handsomest and consequently the richest deposit from the mother lode they have ever seen. It is streaked with a fine grained marble-like quartz, which hugs close to the crevices of its irregular outlines. The entire specimen is a bright yellow mass, except where it is relieved by the impregnated quartz. One side is worn smooth, as if by the force of a slide in the contact, and the other side is molded just in the shape it was deposited by the molten mass. COUNTESS OPENS LAUNDRY Paris World of Fashion Patronizee an American Woman's Odd Enterprise. Paris.—Dissatisfied by the work done by the French, the Countess Rene Temple de Rougemont, formerly Miss Edith Devereux Clapp, of New York city, has established an American laundry at Memillion, her husband's country place in the department of the Eure et Loire. Though the enterprise was begun solely to do away with the necessity of sending linen to London to be laundered, the French work being wholly unsatisfactory, it has become a paying investment in the first week, for all the friends of the count and countess are glad to patronize it and pay good prices for what they call "neerless" results. All the machinery in the laundry came from America, and all the laudresses are American girls, who, because the innovation has proved such a success, are receiving much higher wages than was promised to them by the Countess de Rougemont. Paris men of fashion who for years have been sending their linen to London to have it laudered are making personal appeals to the count to have their work done at Memillion, but he refers them all to the American girl whom the countess has put in charge as manager of the laundry. It is a curious fact that while the elite of Paris sends its laundry to London, society folk of the British capital patronize Paris washerwomen, preferring for some reason not observable here, to have their work done on the banks of the Selne. ENOCH ARDENS IN RUSSIA. Many Returning Soldiers Reported Dead Find Their Wives Remarried. St. Petersburg.—Among the Russian prisoners arriving from Japan there are many who have been reported dead by the general staff and whose relatives had been so informed. The unexpected reappearance of these men is causing all sorts of strange family complications, as many wives, under the impression that they were widows, have remarried. In the province of Perm, where a returning soldier found his wife already the mother of a child by a new husband, he took the matter to the village priest for settlement. The first husband offered to acquiesce to the new conjugal arrangement if he received $25, but the second husband was unable to pay the money, and it was finally arranged that the wife should return to her first husband. However, as the second marriage was considered legal, and as official documents were at hand to prove the apparent death of the living husband, it was decided that the child born while the first husband was away must legally be registered as belonging to the second husband, and that it must be cared for by him. Insure for Left-Handed. Right handed men are no longer the only ones who can, if they so desire, avail themselves of the convenience of a mustache cup. There are now made mustache cups for left handed men as well. These cups come in at least two sizes and in a variety of styles as to decorations. Not nearly so many left handed as right handed cups are called for, but the left handed man can now be supplied. MAKES THE HAIR GROW LONG, STRAIGAT, SOFT AND BIKY. CURES DANDRUFF AND STOPS FALLING HAIR. KINK-1NE IS NO EXPERIMENT It was discovered by Dr. Roberts, a famous English chemist, who has made a study of the scalp of people for the past thirty years, and who, after much time and experience, has prepared this great Tonic. The Doctor says that his experience and study has taught him that the scalp of the people requires a special treatment, and after laboring and testing these many years he has discovered the greatest remedy the world has ever known for the hair. Kink-ine will make the hair grow from one to three inches per month if the directions and instructions are carefully followed out. We have many cases on record where the above results have been obtained, and we do not hesitate when we make these claims. Kink-ine is the only safe preparation in the world that is guaranteed to make the hair straight and make dry hair smooth and stop it from breaking off and falling out; takes out all kinks and knots, cures Dandruff, makes the hair soft and silky, and by nourishing the roots gives it new life and vigor, restoring it to natural color. "I am glad to say it has done my head more good than anything I ever used. Send me three dozen more bottles of Kink-ine at once; goes like hot cakes and works wonders on the hair. Kink-ine is for sale by all druggists at 35 cents per bottle. If your druggist has not got it he can order it for you. WHAT THE.CIVIC CLUB IS DOING. It is doubtful whether any colored person will be appointed on the Board of Education. The Civic Club deserves the credit for this blunder. It was noted for the first time Wednesday that the school bill as passed by the House Tuesday is so framed that according to its provisions the Supreme Court of the District is allowed discretion as to whether it shall appoint any colored person or any woman to the new Board of Education. That is, according to the terms of the measure, the next Board of Education of the District of Columbia may consist of nine white men, if the Supreme Court so desires. It was on the amendment offered by Mr. Gudger of North Carolina that the words in the bill, providing for three colored persons and three women on the board were stricken out. Later in the day Mr. Foster of Vermont offered an amendment giving the appointing power to the District Supremie Court. There was some talk at the Capitol today to the effect that race prejudice had played some part in the passage of the Foster amendment, as it was noted that many Southern members voted for the measure. It is explained, however, that Mr. Foster's amendment giving the appointing power to the judges was entirely separate and distinct from the Gudger amendment, which allows the judges to appoint the board exclusively of white persons. Therefore, is is argued, no such thing as race prejudice was a factor in the adoption of the Foster proposition. 一 We are much grieved to see the New York Age losing its former prestige and glory by its adverse position on vital questions of the day. Editor Fortune took a stand against reduction of representatives and now he endorses the Jamestown Jim Crow annex. Fortune and Chase, truly, seems to be getting on the doty list. TARIFF OF 1846. From the American Economist. When John S. Williams and Champ Clark interrupt Republican speakers in the House of Representatives to claim that the Tariff of 1846 gave us great prosperity it would be better if Republican leaders instead of trying to explain the causes of that prosperity would make a counter claim of adversity under that Tariff. It is true there was some prosperity—there always is under Free-Trade—but the people, the laborers were not prosperous. Because commission men and pawnbrokers are happy nd prosperous does not prove that the rest of the people are. The tariff of 1846 brought ruin and idleness and poverty. It broke down industry after industry, closed mills and factories and it drained the country of its gold. Its offspring, the Tariff of 1857, left us a bankrupt nation and an impoverished people. Why not tell the minority leaders so and put the proof in the "Congressional Record?" United Efforts-Mutual Benefit. Read The Bee, and Bee Hap-be. LEGAL NOTICES. PERRIE W. FRISBY, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA No. 13218, Administration. This is to Give Notice: This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of Fannie Chapman 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 9th day of May, A. D. 1907; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 9th day of May, 1906. John C. Norwood, 1632 Kalovama Road. Attest: W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Colum- bia. Clerk of the Probate Court. Perrie W. Frisby, Attorney. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT 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 30th 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. JAMES F. BUNDY, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Holding a Probate Court. No. 13.562, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of Delliah Bacon, 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 7th day of May, A. D. 1907; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 7th day of May, 1906. Attest: W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Jas. F. Bundy, Attorney. JAMES T. BUNDY, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding a Probate Court. No. 13039. Administration Docket, Estate of Hyson I. Bossie, Deceased. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by Thomas M. W. Greene and Daniel B. Webster, it is ordered this 11th day of May, A. D. 1906, that notice be and hereby is given to James H. Bossie and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Tuesday, the 12th day of June, A. D. 1906, at 10 o'clock A. M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and "The Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned—the first public publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. Attest: W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbit. Work of the Probate Court. James T. Bundy, Attorney. I want a least 500 colored men to go to San Francisco, Cal., to work as SECTION HANDS, BOSSES and MECHANICS.. 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Students and graduates particulars and special offer P THE ARCTIC ICE CREAM CO AND French and American Ice Cream Ices and Sherbets. Fine Line of Oysters and Sea Food Always in Stock. Cafe for Gentlemen and Ladie Prices always consistent with the ex cellence of the goods. Special rate offered to dealers, to churches and religious bodies. I. E. Williamson Proprietor and Manager. Telephone Connection. WILLIAM's Prussian Syrup OF TAR, WILD CHERRY &c. The most certain and speedy remedy known for Coughs, Colds, and Cconsampion. And all Pulmonary Complaints. For Sale by P.S. WILLIAMS & CO. Masonic Temple, For F and 9th Streets, N. W. Subscribe to and read The Bee. BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE. Gold and silver watches, diamonds, jewelry, guns, mechanical tools. ladies' and gent's wearing apparel. Old gold and silver bought. Unredeemed pledges for sale. 301 Pennsylvania Ave, N. W. MONEY For everybody at rates lower than the lowest Don't be deceived; some to us and investigate. Business strictly confidential. No one knows of your transaction with us. We lend on furniture, pianos, or salaries. you have a loan now anywhere and need more money, come to us. Nothing deducted from loan. You get full amount. Extension in case of sickness without extra charge METROPOLITAN LOAN AND TRUST CO. 505 E St., N. W LOANS. From $10 up to $200 loans furniture, pianos, horses, wagons, tures, etc. COURTEOUS treatment guaranteed to all. we have the largest business in the city. Why? Because we grant ex- tensions in case of sickness and give you the benefit of our liberal re- system if you pay up in advance. We carry thousands of satisfied cus- tomers on our books. Call and in- vestigate. SURETY LOAN COMPANY Room 1, Warder Bldg., Cor. 9th and F Sts., N. W. A Square Deal FOR EVERYBODY $10 to $300 On FURNITURE, PIANOS, TEAMS, ETC., without removal, at a low rate of interest. WHEN YOU BUY MERCHANDISE you go to a reliable house. Why not do the same thing when you borrow money? We are an old-established company, and treat everybody alike. Isn't it worth, your while to see us before dealing elsewhere? We pay off other companies and advance you more money. We also loan on plain note to salaried employees, and make a specialty of loans to TEACHERS. POTOMAC, GUARANTEE LOAN CO 928 E. Street, N. W. Atlantic Building. Rooms 23 and 25. Second floor, no window elevator. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" 50 STRAIGHTENS up in any style called constituents with its Ford's Hair Pomade was formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" and in the only use prepared in one bottle. These shows above. In use makes the most stu- born, harbin, kinky or curly hair. pliable and easy to comb. These hairs bottles are usually used for a year. The use of Ford's Hair Pomade ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") is used for a year. Being elegantly drunk, rollers liechig, integrates the easily stops the hair from falling or breaking off, makes it grow and, by nourishing the roots, gives it life and vigor. Being elegantly necessity for ladies, groomers and children. Ford's Hair Pomade ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") has been made and so can be have sold. FORD'S HAIR POMADE runs sweet and effective, no matter how long you keep it. So runs to put Ford's, as the use have sold. FORD'S HAIR POMADE runs PLIABLE. Beware of imitations. Remember that Ford's, Hair Pomade ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") is put up only in 50c. etc. and made by draughts and dealers. If your drum- measure is from his jobber or wholesale dealer or ords in 50c. for one bottle per帖, or MIL for three bottles or $5 for six bottles, charges to all points in U.S.A. When ordering send postal or express money order, and meets this paper. Write your name and the name of the person. 70 Wabash Ave. Chicago, Ml. Agents wanted everywhere. Congressman Pearre of Maryland was beaten by Clarence M. King, who carried the Republican primaries last week. A U. S. Senator may be involved as the result of recent raids by U. S. secret service men in New York, Wilmington, Del., and Gloucester, N. J., last week. New York, in connection with the all night bank, has opened in the tenderloin all night pawnshops. Protective Benefit Association We insure any person from 3 to 60 years of age if in good health without regard to sex. We pay sick and accident benefits varying from 75 cents to $10.00 per week, and a death benefit fund varying from $7.50 to $125.00. we are required to keep a certain RESERVE FUND on hand for the PROTECTION OF THE INSURED, thus putting it out of our power to render the Association other than LEGITIMATE, SAFE, SOUND AND RELIABLE. You can deal with us with the firm assurance that we will do whatever promised if you do your part. WANTED AT ONCE! Twenty Good PROTECTIVE GOOD PAY Call early and secure ten OFFICE: 609 F from 1 to 3 o'clock P. M. DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS Dr. W. Bruce Evans, president O. T. Taylor, 1st vice-president Aaron J. Gaskins, and vice-pro L. Melendez King, secretary Dr. I. A. Bovd, treasurer Dr. Harry J. Williams, musical Dr. M. O. Dumas, medical di Columbia B The Columbia Benefit Association masses. One which pays proof whose officers are men of ability, stock is paid up in full, and new law of the District of Columbia. We want AGENTS of ability,eral salaries and commission to a Wm. J. Howard, president; B Hill, Jr., secretary and man attorney. Main office, 494 Lou Jno. A. Lankford, treasurer; D W. Sidne Twenty Good Agents to represent the ELECTIVE BENEFIT ASSOCIATION STEADY EMPLOYMENT and secure territory. OFFICE: 609 F STREET, N. W. (First Rock P. M. OFFICERS FOR THE FIRM evans, presiden vice-president, vice and vice-president, secretary, treasurer, williams, musical direc ts, medical directs. Benefit Association is an Insurance Company which pays promptly; whose terms men of ability, honesty and integrity; full, and is in-corporated and licited of Columbia; NTS of ability for all sections of the commission to agents. OFFICERS. president; Henry H. Waring, vice-president and manager; D. Blair, physician, office, 494 Louisiana avenue, N. W., W. treasurer; Dr. Jos. HidneyPitt Architect OFFICE: 609 F STREET, N. W. (First room front) from 1 to 3 o'clock P. M. DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS FOR Columbia Benefit Association 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. OFFICERS. Wm. J. Howard, president; Henry H. Waring, vice-president; Edmund Hill, Jr., secretary and manager; D. Blair, physician; Geo. F. Collins attorney. Main office, 494 Louisiana avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. Jno. A. Lankford, treasurer; Dr. Jos. W.SidneyPittman Architect RENDERING IN MONOTONE, WATER COLOR AND PEN & INK STEEL CONSTRU Phone: Main 6059-M. J. A. L. Architect Expert builder, examiner from rough sketches, pencil dr and mailed to any section of the we have designed, overhauled, and Dollars ($500,000.00) worth the class of work being of even We make a specialty of ch we also specialize the building Any one anticipating having p pected, we would be glad to ha given in any of the above nam CONSTRUCTION A SPECIAL M. Office 494 Louisiana A. Lankfo architect And Bu r, examiner and estimator. Plans gotten lines, pencil drawings, or from written or section of the country. In the past it ever hauled, repaired and built over K 000.000 worth of work in Washington being of every description and charac specialty of church and hall designs, a the building up of vacant lots in the ing having plans gotten out, building be glad to have you call or write us. M us above named lines. J. A. Lankford X Architect And Builder Expert builder, examiner and estimator. Plans gotten out at short notice from rough sketches, pencil drawings, or from written or verbal descriptions, and mailed to any section of the country. In the past thirty-two (35) months we have designed, overhauled, repaired and built over Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) worth of work in Washington, D.C., and virtually the class of work being of every description and character. We make a specialty of church and hall designs, and arranging loans we also specialize the building up of vacant lots in the District of Columbia. Any one anticipating having plans gotten out, buildings overhauled or repaired, we would be glad to have you call or write us. No charges for growth in any of the above named lines. Office 6th and 1. West Residence 1210 V. St. Northwest CREDIT FOR EVERY ONE Mattin We are not boasting whe ting values than you can get quanti thus buy at the one and contains many rich Big atting Val boasting when we say that we can of you can get anywhere else, for we i us buy at the very lowest prices Our many rich patterns not exhibited are Big Matting Values We are not boasting when we say that we can offer you better Mating values than you can get anywhere else, for we import direct in big quantities thus buy at the very lowest prices Our stock is a splendid one and contains many rich patterns not exhibited anywhere else in the city. We offer heavy China Mattings as low as ..... 12% We sell an excellent grade of China Matting at ..... 19% You cannot duplicate for less than 30 cents the China Matting we offer at ..... 23% Thirty-five cents is the price others ask for a grade of China Matting we sell at ..... 28% Very fine quality Japan Matting that should sell for 37 cents a yard nts to represent the EFIT ASSOCIATION. STEADY EMPLOYMENT ER, N. W. (First room front). THE FIRST YEAR. Benfit Association is an Insurance Company for the one whose terms are liberal; one city and integrity; one whose capital incorporated and licensed under the all sections of the city; we pay lib. H. Waring, vice-president; Edmund D. Blair, physician; Geo. F. Collins avenue, N. W., Washington. D. C. My Pittman Architect PATENT DRAWINGS DRAFTING,DETAILING,TRACING BLUE PRINTING TION A SPECIALTY. 494 Louisiana Ave., N.W. nkford, And Builder imater. Plans gotten out at short notice, or from written or verbal descriptions.ENTRY. In the past thirty-two (32) months, and built over Five Hundred Thousand Work in Washington, D.C., and visually description and character. and hall designs, and arranging lofts vacant lots in the District of Columbia. gotten out, buildings overhauled or call or write us. No charges for g Values say that we can offer you better M there else, for we import direct in b lowest prices Our stock is a splendid is not exhibited anywhere else in th OFFICERS