Washington Bee
Saturday, September 29, 1906
Washington, D.C.
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VOL. XXVI.NO.18
OPEN LETTER
SOME COLD FACTS.
To Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the National Republican Committee—
My Dear Mr. Cortelyou:—What is your opinion of the dastardly and cowardly assaults upon colored citizens in Atlanta, Ga.? Just think of it! Colored citizens killed without cause or provocation, or even without the semblance of a just cause. Instead of sending warships to Cuba to prevent the independence of the Cuban people, don't you think it would be wise for the President to order an immediate investigation of the killing of innocent colored citizens by a Georgia mob? Is this the result of the President's recent visit South, Mr. Cortelyou? I have neither heard nor have I read an expression from you, my dear Mr. Cortelyou in defense of a race in whom you have heretotore manifested so much interest.
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Will you kindly tell me what the President means? Is he a Republican or Democrat? Ex-President Grover Cleveland, although small in some things would not sanction the wholesale massacre of colored citizens by his silence. Many of our representative colored men are cowards and office seekers, Mr. Cortelyou, hence you will not obtain from them an expression of their disapproval. The colored office holders, without an exception, will keep their mouths closed. Our colored leadership of today is of an apologetic character. This leadership does all of its talking behind closed doors and key holes, tightly stuffed. I have no faith, Mr. Cortelyou in our present colored leadership. Many of them are full of vanity and imagine that they see their own importance in a looking glass.
This is not what I desire to tell you, Mr. Cortelyou. Something of more importance, at this time, is in my mind. You know Ex-Recorder H. P. Cheatham of North Carolina? Of course you do. Do you remember that you informed him that he should be taken care of alter his unjust removal from the office of Recorder of Deeds? President Roosevelt, Mr. Cortelyou, told Ex-Senator Pritchard and Mr. Cheatham himself that he would be taken care of by the administration. Why hasn't it been done, Mr. Cortelyou? Do you know how humble he was to you and the President when he could have struck a blow of political independence. Had Mr. Cheatham taken the advice of the Editor of The Bee and others he would have been a recognized political factor in North Carolina today. Mr. Cheatham was sincere; he was grateful to his friends and loyal to the administration. He made a good recorder and at no time was he false to his trust. The coming fall election will soon be over, and just what part the colored voter will take is left to be seen. I believe in the theory of Mr. Hearst. I admire his platform. The colored voter should support men and not party. The colored voter has enough of parties. I mean the two great political parties. There is nothing in them for him, Mr. Cortelyou. All you care for the colored man is for him to be your messenger and servant. If you think more of him let it be shown.
AMERICAN PREJUDICE
AMERICAN PREJUDICE.
I see that Mr. Taft, the President's choice for President is in Cuba. Palma will agree to anything Mr. Taft does. Both are free of American prejudice and the sentiment is about to permeate the island. The blacks will oppose it, Mr. Cortelyou. Wherever the Americans are their prejudices may be found. The blacks in Cuba are different from the American colored men. The white man in America might as well conclude now that the colored man is tired of American oppression and the injustice of the administration. I beg leave to ask you, Mr. Cortelyou, is it the intention of the administration to continue its play of tweedle dee and tweedle dum. Ten millions or more of colored citizens in this country and all that they can point to, under a Republican administration are two offices, one Recorder of Deeds and a bureau office known as the register of the treasury. These two insignificant offices must satisfy ten millions of colored people and they are told that no more is coming to them. The incumbent of these two offices are satisfied to be sure, while the other millions must look upon the instruments and compare the names of the two incumbents and decide who writes his name better. Register Vernon is in Ohio extolling the virtues of the administratron and the great deeds of the President and his charge up San Juan Hill. He will say nothing of the President's rebuke of those brave soldiers and the valor they displayed in saving the President's life. Register Vernon will forget all about this. Recorder Dancy, Mr. Cortelyou, will tell the colored voter that your chief is the great
est man since Lincoln. All office holders and office seekers will shout, but the sensible voter will do something of the kind. The colored voter, Mr. Cortelyou, is thinking as I am thinking and if any of these hot air orators tell you otherwise just come to the conclusion that they are endeavoring to hold jobs.
Register Lyons is thinking right, Mr. Cortelyou. He is no longer register of the Treasury. He now says that the country is in a deplorable condition. Now if he had told the President these things while he was register of the treasury the Republicans of Georgia would follow him today. Ex-Register Lyons rendered greater service to the Republican party two years ago than all the colored men at that time in the field. He saw nothing good in certain Republican managers. And why should he, Mr. Cortelyou? Captain Lyons was loyal to the party and true to the white employees in his office. He always promoted them in preference to his colored employees. Just before Mr. Roosevelt was nominated, Capt. Lyons was sent for and told by the President that he wanted a man by the name of Johnson elected a delegate to the Chicago Convention and if he could not elect him, he wanted to know it. Captain Lyons informed the President, Mr. Cortelyou, that this particular Southern white man never affiliated with the Republican party, hence he was person non grata. Notwithstanding the honest and loyal captain carried out the request of your chief. Have you read
The Republican Campaign Book?
In its reference to the colored voter, Mr. Cortelyou, he is told what an enemy the Democratic party is to him and what a friend the Republican is and has been to the colored voter; but promises nothing, not even the carrying out of the principles of the last National Republican platform. In my next, dear Mr. Cortelyou, I shall endeavor to review some of the broken promises of our party, and until then believe me to be Yours truly.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY OPENS.
The Academic departments of Howard University opened on last Wednesday day morning. There was the largest attendance on any opening day in the history of the university. The appearance of the newly elected president was greeted with round after round of applause. He made a stirring address to the students and faculty in the Andrew Rankin Chapel at the noon day exercises. The address abounded in the highest educational aims and ideals and students and teachers alike were captivated by the power and charm of his eloquence.
PRESIDENT THIRKIELD.
President Th'rkield comes with a sustained record of consecration and success in lines of work for which the University stands. Great things are expected of the University under his administration.
DENOUNCE LYNCHING
Colored Baptist Ministers Also Condemn Negro Rapists.
At a meeting of the National Negro Baptist Preachers' Union of Washington and vicinity, held yesterday in the parlor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, 708 O street, N. W., resolutions were adopted condemning the mob violence by the whites upon innocent negroes and also condemning assaults upon white women by negroes, characterized as "the dual crimes in Atlanta, which disgrace our Christian nation."
It was requested by the union that the colored people shall assemble in their churches October 7 and offer prayers for a peaceful solution of the race problem. Rev. Simon P. Drew presided and Rev. A. E. Strother acted as secretary.
BALTIMORE & OHIO EXCURSION,
Sunday, September 30, $1.00 Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg and return; $1.35 Berkley Springs and return; $2.00 Cumberland and return.
Special train leaves Washington as
8.05 A. M.
WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY SE What I Saw And Heard PARAGRAPH
What I Saw And Heard PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
It would have done you some good to have been at the residence of Attorney Jones last Wednesday night. The streets were lined with Shiloh members, receiving their instructions preparatory to the onslaught on the enemy last evening. It was an enthusiastic crowd with a determination to vindicate their pastor and put to flight the alleged conspirators.
The Commissioners have frightened Judge Millaroy and now he lets no guilty man escape. Those people who are brought to the court now for keeping a dirty yard had better come prepared or go to the work house.
David L. Stewart is preparing to knock out our funeral directors. He is building a large double four-story business place. It will be one of the largest undertaker's establishments in the city. Mr. Stewart deserves great credit for his enterprise and perseverance.
My friend, Mr. James H. Winslaw, has been sued. I hope the matter can be adjusted in a manner that will be
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GEN. THOS. H. ANDERSON
GEN. THOS. H. ANDERSON
satisfactory to all parties concerned. Dr. J. E. Sheppard, of North Carolina, received a great oration in Toledo, O., last week. It is ordained that some people don't intend to work. There was a love feast last week at the offices of Attorney A. W. Scott and Mr. Douglass P. Syphax. There were liquid refreshments in abundance. Lawyer Scott admitted to Booker Syphax that he was in the wrong that caused tears to flow from the eyes of the banker. The repast was so large that the friends of both parties concluded that a marriage had taken place. Attorney Scott has been drinking Moxie for several days to enable his nerves to get in a condition to undergo the test that took place. Douglass invited his friend to take a drive behind his imported trotter. It is said that Douglas has a royal trotter that could make Bob Keys in four hours by the watch. Douglass is a good-natured fellow and he is excusable when he happens to lose his head. There is no place for the accommodation of ladies at the police court. They are compelled to stand in the hall with the motley crowd that daily assemblies. It is hoped that the new court will be finished in a few months, then there will be plenty of room for everybody.
There will no doubt be a division among the colored Masons. The professional men in both organizations are greatly displeased at the manner in ined Masons have no respect for their professional men I am at a loss to know who have. There are two great Masonic bodies in this city and neither has any confidence in their professional men. It is to be regretted that ignorance should rule in these organizations. I am not surprised that white Masons don't desire to affiliate with colored Masons. They have no confidence in themselves. Well, we shall see what we shall see. There is a great deal of indignation in both orders.
Fairplay.
TWO TEETH.
A baby with two teeth was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fails of our city, 11th inst. Mother and babe are doing well.
TURDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
BY MISS BEATRIZ L. CHASE.
Cole and Johnson are adding more laurels to their crown of success. The people of Texas are loud in their praise. Black Patti is also holding her own in the State of Texas, and all the people try to hear her.
Register Vernon is given credit in the Topeka Plaindealer for having said that "Kansas is God's country."
The Life Insurance Independent of August contains a lengthy and instructive article on "The Power Behind the Throne." The article is well worth the reading by all who are in any way interested in the insurance business, or any who may not approve of their methods.
The Fall Type Founder is out and contains valuable information about cleaning out and replenishing one's office.
The October number of McCall's magazine is replete with some of the most stunning styles, for all ages, and the reading matter of the highest class.
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It is authentically reported that the National Baptist Convention held at Memphis, Tenn., was one of the most successful of the twenty-six annual sessions.
Dr. J. H. N. Warring, formerly connected with our District Schools, is receiving praise for his work as principal of the Baltimore High Schools, held in Philadelphia, Mr. A. W. Sears of this city was elected Guide.
Baltimore lost one its best teachers in the death of Miss Sedonia Webb.
We extend to the Christian Index our sympathy relative to the attack upon Mr. Edward Meek, the foreman, by one of the printers. To be foreman thirteen years speaks well for Mr. Meeks.
Lawyer J. T. Newson passed through the city on his way to Hamilton, Va., where he addressed the Emancipation Association.
It is said that the Sultan of Turkey is suffering from cancer of the kidneys, which is incurable.
At Hongkong Americans and Europeans have contributed $2000 and the Chinese $25,000 to a fund for the relief of the sufferers from the typhoon.
Two herds of cattle in the county of Frederick, Md., have developed Texas fever and have been quarantined by the State veterinary board.
The plant of the Central City Planting and Lumber Mills at Macon, Ga., was destroyed by fire last week.
Six families at Pittsburg, Pa., were poisoned by eating cakes, the product of a bake shop. It is said that roach powder had dropped from a shelf in the bakery into a barrel of sugar.
Geo. F. Schaefer, 16 years old, who acted as lawyer for himself when arraigned in the Juvenile Court, charged with larceny, was sent to the reform school.
While Governor General Sollohub was walking in one of the streets of Riga last Saturday a bomb was thrown at him from a window.
John F. Weissner, president of the J. F. Weissner Brewing Company of Baltimore, died last week of Bright's disease.
President A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad was confined to his home last week at Haverford, Pa., from an attack of whooping cough.
Mr. Jesse Lawson favors the re-elec-
tion of Senator Dryden as Senator from New Jersey.
On account of the absence of Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon the meeting of the executive committee of the Red Cross, which was called for last Tuesday, was postponed until October 1st.
The American legation at Stockholm had a narrow escape from being blown up by the Finnish revolutionists who were arrested at Stockholm September zand.
Speaker Joseph Cannon and Representative James E. Watson of Indiana spent last Tuesday visiting Kansas City, Mo.
Smith College at Northampton, Mass., was damaged this week by fire to the amount of $7,000. Partly covered by insurance.
Whitney D. Barrett, a police officer at Penacook, N. H., shot and killed Miss Julia Chadwick, daughter of John Chadwick, a prominent citizen, last Tuesday in the vestibule of an electric car. Jealousy was said to be the motive for the deed.
It is said that Secretary Root will not join the peace commission in Havana.
It is expected that Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia is about to resign and retire to private life, being tired of the job.
The Duke of Fife-James died last Monday at the Chateau de Montjustin, department of the Haute-Saone, Paris. It is said that during the long history of Westminster Abbey only two royal tombs have been opened, those of Edward I. and James I.
The Democrats of New Hampshire nominated Nathan C. Jameson of Antrim as their candidate for governor at the state convention held at Concord this week.
The dark-skinned citizens of Cumberland, Md., held a very large celebration of emancipation in that city last Tuesday.
Judge Frank Campbell, assistant attorney general for the State Department, has been appointed to one of the most important offices in the Grand Army of the Republic, that* of judge advocate general.
The Diet of Brunswick, Prussia, have adopted a resolution asking the imperial chancellor, Prince Von Buelow, president of the Imperial Bundesrath, to take suitable steps to settle the controversy over the crown of Brunswick.
Order of Nobles of the M. S. regnuli
Order of Nobles of the M. S. recently At the annual session of the A. E. A. Several of the Italian officers of the Italian cruiser Fieramosca, now lying off Washington, visited the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., this week. It is said that seventy millions of people in Europe wear wooden shoes. The City Hall is now being renovated and cleaned on the exterior and interior. Commissioner Macfarland has notified the superintendent of police of the action of Division 160, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, in complaining of the conduct of the police upon the occasion of the railroad accident at Md. ave. and 6th street some time ago. Charlemagne Tower, American ambassador to Germany arrived at New York on the steamer Kronprinz last Tuesday from Bremen. The tenth annual convention of the American League of municipalities opened at Chicago last Wednesday. Kaarie Luote, chief of Finland Red Guard, a revolutionary military organization, was arrested this week. A meeting of the bar association of the District of Columbia was held last Monday evening at the city hall to take action in the matter of recommending a candidate for the vacancy created by the resignation of Justice Duelll of the District Court of Appeals.
Milton D. Purdy, assistant to Attorney General Moody, has returned to his desk at the Department of Justice, after a trip to England and the continent.
The Pike centennial celebration, commemorating the discovery of Pike's Peak by the man whose name it bears, opened ta Colorado Springs, Col., last Monday. A typhoon ocurred in the Philippines south of Manila last week. Not much damage was done.
The trades congress in convention at Victoria, B. C., last week, with delegates from all parts of Canada, decided to form an independent labor party to enter federal and local politics.
It is thought that several anarchists are on their way to Copenhagen to carry out a plot to murder the Dowager Czarina, the Czar's mother, and Grand Duke Michael, who are at Copenhagen.
Howard University opened last Wednesday with Dr. Wilbur P. Thirkield as its new president.
Houdini, who has been giving exhibitions of jail-breaking at Chase's, refuses to be fastened in a steel box made to be used as burglar proof casing for a coffin. His reason for refusing is that the box would look too greysome on the stage. This box is fastened by ten locks.
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NORMAL SCHOOL
There are two or three erroneous impressions prevailing concerning appointments from the Normal Classes, which cause uncalled forensure of some actions of the Board of Education. In the first place there is nothing in the Acts, Rules and Regulations requiring appointments to be made in numerical order. It has been the custom to do so, but it is not prescribed. Secondly, there is a proviso that although the term of a class remains alive only between July 1 of one year and June 30 of the succeeding year, yet each class must have twenty appointments; from this it follows necessarily that if a class has not received that number in its period it must be made up to them before the next class comes into consideration. Understanding these corrections will explain what has puzzled some and caused criticism from more, concerning a few late appointments. This class of '05 ad really thirty vacancies occurring in its life period, of which it received but thirteen; thirteen of them were wrongfully given to the class of '04 and four left unfilled by the old Board at its death. The seven places compulsory were filled on the 14th inst, leaving '05 still in justice entitled to ten more places, which it is expected they will receive in connection with (not to the exclusion of) the class of 06. There is not the least reason to doubt but that in its year the class of '06 will receive all to which it is entitled, with but a very slight delay in the start. An additional reason for not recognizing the numerical order of the class of '05 lies in the fact that it was unanimously condemned by the old board as utterly unreliable because of the methods used in making it up, which, they said, were absolutely wrong, and contrary to the rules.
For the reasons given the appointments were made by selection. As under the present management, it will never again occur that a list will be made up in the manner of the list of 'o5, it is not at all probable there will ever be another departure from custom forced in justice upon the board.
A NEW CAMPAIGN BOOK
Editor Ben—The Republican Inter-State League has just issued from the press a supplementary Republican textbook for the Congressional campaign of 1906.
For uniqueness, originality and finish, it surpasses anything hitherto attempted. It contains splendid half tone cuts of the President, Vice-President, Speaker of the House, the Chairman and Secretary of the Republican Congress Committee, several members of the cabinet, the Senate, Register of the Treasury W. T. Vernon, Collector of Customs John H. Deveaux of Savannah, Ga., and Gen. Robert Smalls, Collector of the Port of Beaufort, S. C., and with other distinguished men, together with sketches of them and extracts from their most recent speeches.
This work has been in preparation for some time and is prepared with the utmost care. It is one of the most valuable and important political contributions that has ever been placed in the hands of the colored voters. Indeed we doubt if such a valuable document of the kind has been issued heretofore; so full of information and carefully compiled statistics, showing the importance and relative strength of the colored voter in the northern, western and border states. The authors of this book, Messrs. Wm. H. Sykes and H. A. Clarke, have displayed exceptional political sagacity and rare literary talent in the preparation of this work. No young men are better equipped for this important duty than they, both of whom are students of a high order and are well informed upon all lines touching the politics of this country, and the task of furnishing the voters with this valuable information could have fallen into better hands. In point of literary finish it is a gem and should be in the hands of every colored voter throughout the country; for it will do much to cement the colored voters in support of Republican candidates.
These young men are to be commended and congratulated for the interest they manifest in the success of the party and the advancement of the race along all lines political.
Geo. C. Smith.
There is no truth in the story that has been circulated throughout the country that there is a difference between himself and his deputy register, Mr. C. F. Adams. Mr. Vernon and his deputy are on the best of terms and both think and speak well of each other. Mr. Adams has been given more authority by Register Vernon than any deputy has ever had.
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MRS. FLEMING HAS DISCOVERED
SIX OUT OF NINE NEW STARS.
Is Curator of the Astro-Photographic
Library of Harvard Observatory
and Has Achieved a Na-
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Boston.—Since the days of Caroline
Herschel and Marla Mitchell, no wom
an has played so important a part
| in the astronomical world as William.
ina Paton Fleming, a native of Dun:
j dee, Scotland, but by naturalization
| ana’ adoption an American citizen. .
' Although it is a generally accepted
{ fact that within the last 25 years wor
en have done important work in sch
entific fields of labor, very few people
know, perhaps, that they are now do-
ing work, not only In the line of re
search, but also as discoverers,
To this class Mrs. Fleming belongs
tore properly, as she discovered six
of the nine new stars during the last
45 years,
In the Harvard college observatory
which stands foremost in certain lines
of work, and whose Influence 1s felt
all over Europe, 17 of the 40 assistants
employed are women, among them
Williamina Paton Fleming holds the
position of curator of the famous as.
trophotgraphic library of the ob-
servatory. *
This position ts as unique as the
brary Itself, for in the 250 years of
Harvard's history no other woman
bas ever recetved an official appoint:
ment from the unlverelty corporation.
The Harvard library Js the only one
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of its kind In the world. Here Mrs.
Fleming haa the entire charge of over
200,000 ptates,.all of which she exam-
ines and discusses with her assistants.
‘These plates are the complete record
jot the sky for every year since 1890,
‘and partial records of the year 1886.
In the course of ‘examining these
Plates Mrs. Fleming has discovered a
large number of variables and con-
firmed the discovery of several new
stars. By her zeal and skill the num-
bef of known stars whose spectrum
4s of the third type has been increased
from 1,000 to 3,000, while the rare
class of fifth type stars has been
Talsed from 16 to 57.
Mrs. Fleming9has also discovered
over 200 new, valuable stars, by means
of the bright bydrogen Ines in their
specters, and has been able to prove
thelr variability In each case from the
photographic charts of the same re-
sions.
In 1890 she ‘announced, from ts
spectrum, that a certain star to the
constellation of Cygnus was variable,
and (among other achievements) has
the distinguished honor of being the
first discoverer of the planetary ne
bDulae, by means of photography.
A number of new stars have been
discovered during the last 15 years,
and six of them are Mrs. Fleming's
dlscoveries—Nova Persil, No, 1; Nova
Normae,, Nova Carinae, Nova Cen-
tauri, Nova Sagittara and Nova Aqul-
lae—a brilliant record. Beside all of
her routine work, thie remarkable
woman finds ttme to edit the Annals
of the Observatory, to coatribute ar-
ticles to various astronomical four-
nals, and tO do computation of moun-
tain helgh® for the Appalachian club,
Tt is Interesting to know that the
strain of Intellectual and sctentific
pursuits has not destroyed that other
elde—the purely feminine si4e—ot her
ule.
“Ab! I don’t mind housework, and
I can cook as good a little dinner as
Balt of the women installéd in our
Kitchens. I'm never scared If the
maid 1s sulky or threatens to give
notice.”
This 1s something of a surprise from
& woman who has written of woman:
“While we cannot maintain that in
everything she Is man’s equal, yet In
many fields of work her patience, per-
severance and methods make her his
superior.”
When she was first made “Fellow”
of a certain scientific society, the
clerk was greatly embarassed In filling
out the certificate and laboriously rub-
bing out the word “Fellow,” and sub-
stituting “member” fn Its place. This,
however, was corrected by the person
in authority and now Willamina
Paton Fleming, fellow of so and so,
no longer “looks curious.
Certainly the “modern woman” tp
sclence has found an Honorable as
well as conspicuous place among the
world_of scientists and astronomers
in thé person of Willlamina Fleming,
writer and discoverer,
MONUMENT TO ENGLAND'S DEAD
Impressive Memorial Erected to He
roes of Waterloo.
Unlike the United States, by which
battlefields are preserved and monu-
ments erected to the heroes who fell
for thelr cause, England is never in a
hurry to honor her dead. The monu-
ments erected on the battlefield of
Waterloo are, with few exceptions,
Belgiar, German or French. Now
England has been asked by Count
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Figure of Britain Mouraing Her Lost
Legions.
Louis Cavens, owner of the farm -of
Mont. St. Jean, to buy it and turn
It Into a park or historic museum In
memory of Waterloo. But England
wants none of ft. ‘The count has
written, some frantic letters to the
London papers and there bas been an
anaemic subscription fist, but they
avall nothing. Besides, Englishmen
have delved into records, and find the
farm was not part of the field of Wa-
terloo, but was the headquarters of
the medical division and a long way
in rear of the action.
A really maguificent monument,
however, has been erected recently
to the British officers and men who
fell at the great battle of 18i5. It Is
not on the field of Waterloo, but in
the cemetery of Evere, on the out:
sxirts of Brussels, The monument Is
at the entrance of the cemetery. It
Consists of a large stone sarcophagus
covered with a great cross. Over this
tomb is the British flag in bronze, ap-
parently ruffed by the wind. At the
head stands a giant figure of Britanla,
her head bowed In oe. Around the
tomb are three huge dying Mons and
between their figures, In seemingly
abandoned piles, are broken guns and
acoutrements, uniforms and the gen-
eral debris df battle.
Bronze shields and slabs on the
tomb record the names and regiments
and heroes alike. At the back a
fight of stone steps leads inte ‘the
tomb. All the bodies possible were
gathered from the field of Waterlov
and interred in this tomb, the ground
for which was given by the ctty of
Brussels. It is an Imposing mont
ment and a maguificent plece of sculp-
ture; In fact, one- of the best of the
Belgian sculptor, Count de Lalaing.
The Americans who visit Brussels
this year should not miss It
HOKE SMITH FOR GOVERNOR.
Georgia Democrats Choose Ex-Cabinet
Member for Executive Post.
Atlanta, Ga.—Hoke Smith, who Las
been chosen as candidate for governor
by the Democratie primaries, is a well
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(Préminent Georgian Nominated by
the Democrats for Governor.)
known attorney, who formerly was
the owner of the Atlanta Journal,
which newspaper he controlled from
1887 until 1898. Mr. Smith was secre-
tary of the interlor under President
Cleveland, serving for three years and
resigning the position In 1896. He was
born in Newton, N. C., in 1855, was
privately educated by his father, who
was president of Catawba college, and
at the age,of 17 he moved to this
state. For ‘a time he taught school,
meanwhile studying law, and alter his
admission to the bar he began prac-
tice in this city, which has been his
‘home for several years. He was but
18 years old-when he was admitted to
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ARUNAWAY MOUNTALK
Stop It—Freaks of the
Landstide.
Golden, Col—Any caz who kaows
of a good way In which to snub a
sliding mounta:n can ‘sell his knowl-
edge on favorable terms to the’ Colo-
rado & Southern -rallroad,
A mile from Golden is a spur of the
Rockies known as North Table moun-
tain, It rears a square head some
thing like a quarter of a mile into
the atmosphere, and Is a pretty husky
sort of mountain, taken all in all.
Recently a portion of {t has taken
to sliding, and the raflroad people
have found it necessary to keep a
‘force of a hundred men busy shovel-
ing the mountain dirt off the tracks.
So far they have been able to keep
uhead of the slide, but even with the
ald of a steam shovel the task fs a
difficult one.
A quarter of the way up the moun-
tain runs a flume through which are
conducted the waters of Clear creek
over into the farmers’ irrigated lands
| to the west. On one slope lower down
‘is the Golden smelter. Below the
‘ditch and above the smelter runs the
cbighway, and bordering th{s are
farms.
| Engineers say that the cause is an
unusual one. Far down in the
Bround ig a stratum of hard, dry pot-
ters’ clay, smooth as glass, and the
‘great weight-of the earth resting upon
it ts simply causing the mass to move
slowly down toward the level.
It ig scarcely an avalanche, as in
the mountains this term is under
‘stood to represent a sudden slide of
great masses -of earth. The only dif-
ference is that this mountain {s mov-
ing with almost Imperceptible speed,
about ten feet a day.
The county officers have already
yexpended thousands in trying to keep
the toad In passable condition. In
the last week’ the road has dropped
‘four or five feet in some places,
while other portions ste twisted and
heaped up, It has become necessary
to put up fence rail barricades at
night, Inasmuch as no one knows
what will happen within an hour.
The slide started below the level
of the ditch, which has not yet been
affected. Up above on the mountain
side are a number of springs, and
these arp supposed to furnish the eol-
Yent which causes the earth to slip.
The side of the mountain fs torn and
seamed with great fissures.
At points these are eight or ten
‘feet wide, giving the appearance of an
earthquake. Every few minutes, In
some spot, there {s a loosening of the
overhanging earth, a dull thud and
new fissures appear on the mountain
side, with = fence gone here-and a
part of the road there.
The smelter was thought to be in
danger of joining in the slide, but the
work done by .the railroad men has
80 far protected it These men say
that they cannot think of any way of
solving the problem, but to keep right
on,moving away the dirt as fast as
it”comes, and carrying the moentain
away piecemeal on the trains.
*On the south slope James Taylor
‘had a fine orchard. Trees, earth
and all have been corratied in the
slide, and the orchard is several hun-
dred feet turther down the mountain
than it originally was. Taylor whim-
eically asserts that if ft keeps on
moving he will’ have a hard time
agreeing with his next neighbor in
whom title to the orchard .rests.
The earth has slipped down upon
the dwelling of WIINam Carpenter, an-
other farmer, and has torn away a cor
ner of the ‘house. The residence is
Dalit at the bottom of a sharp slope,
with 2 two-foot foundation under the
upper part and a six-foot on the
lower. Carpenter has braced the
‘house with a dozen upright beams, but
it is unlikely that he will be able
to eave it.
Another house that was situated 40
feet frem the foot of the mountain
now bas the mass of earth at its
back door. The barn on Ole Peter-
son's farm was formerly about 50
feet from the house. The moving
earth has not’affected the house, but
the barn Is 150 fest, away now, and
there is a big chasm between it and
the house, which Peterson has deen
compelled to bridge.
Sheds Skin Annually.
Helena, Mont—John H. Price, 3
mine superintendent, ts shedding bis
skin, says a Philipsburg special. It
1s a very pecullar plece ef nature's
work, the cause of which the medi-
cal profession has so ‘far been unable
to explain, The shedding of the skin
‘of his entire body is complete, Includ-
‘Ing the nails on his fingers and toes,
‘and the process of shedding covers
& perfod of from three to five days.
This has occurred annually for 30
years. At the approach of the shed-
ding period Mr. Price becomes quite
ill, has high fever, and the. skin over
his entire body apparently dries up.
Three Weigh 497 Pounds.
Chester, Vt.—Three children of Mr.
and Mrs. C. 8. Leonard, of Simons-
ville, Vt, have a combined welght of
497 pounds. Annle L, 12 years old,
tips the scales at 203; Laura C., 13
years of age, has a 192-pound weight,
and Ralph E., 6% years old, weighs
102 pounds. Mr. Leonard, the father,
{s 49 years old and weighs 140, while
the mother, aged 29, 1s of 120 pounds
weight. The parents were born in
Andover and have always lived on a
farm. {
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LUN C. of A,, fraternal, meet:
t Lecompte, La, the second an¢
hird Tuesday nights in each month
XE, Pickens, W, P, PB JE Dailey
NLCS.
~LOLNIC of A. Fy No, 127
meets at its office, 608 Bolton street
east, the first and third Moaday
nights in each month, Rev. S. T
Shephard, worthy president. T. P
Haywood, W. C. 5, Ocie Weathers
W. P. P,
Golden Star Department of the I
DNC of A F., No. 248, meets
at St. James, La., the first and third
Saturdays in each month, J. W
Walker, W. P. PL Alex. Anoisan
W.C.S,
Eastern Star Department, No. 233
of the ILO. NL 1. C of ALF. meets
it Darrow, La, the second and fourts
Saturdays in each month. Leon Ba,
tise, WLP. PL OM. Baptise, W. C. §
Dempsey Wilson, W. R. s.
Liprman Department 9f the 1 O
N. 1. C of A. F, No, 12, 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 mesth. Speacer
Gary, W. P,P. C.C. Carlie, WLR
S._A. Cattle, WC. Ss,
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. ot
A. F, No. 53, meets at Chauncey
Ga., on the first Saturday in, each
month. Rev, E. Adamis, W, PLP
Peter Stanley, W. C. Ss.
Department No. 136 meets at Bator
Rouge, La., first an third Wednes
day nights in each month, Jos. New
ton, W. P,P. M, BL Stewart, W.C
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Fraternat Sunrise Lepartment,
No. 17, meets at Fort Worth, Tex.,
the first and third Wednesdays in each
month. R.R. Sloan, W. P, P.; Hen-
ty Henderson, W.P, P.; M. Mathew
W.FV.PS LB Balenger, W. C
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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. Ham.
iIton, W. P. Rebecca Carpenter, W.
R. S. Savannah Slaughter, W.C. S.
Department No. 13 meets at Lake
City, Fla. frst and second Monday
nights in each month, Joe Dorsey
W. P. P. W. M. Pasco, W FV
P. Giles Duncan, W.C, CB
Bartley, W. C. S.
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, BELL BUILDS NEW AIRSHIP.
linventor of Telephone Experimenting
: on Entirely New Principle.
New York.—Prof. Alexander Bell,
inventor of the tete-hoae, Is expert
menting up in Caaata with a new:
fangld afretip. it is operated by
Wireless electrical enersy supplied
from the earth.
A short [reiiminary test has been
pate with success, and Prof. Bell is
trarsing for a “fy” from Toronto to
London, Ont. which, ft {s believed,
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Which Differs from All Others.)
‘Will be a severe and convincing test.
Prof. Bell's machine differs materi
ally from those of Santos-Dumont and
Prof. Langley. It is a kite, not a bal.
loon, nor an aeroplane.
Its lifting power {fs estimated to be
700 pounds, and after this had been
demonstrated. Prof. Bell's only prob
lem was to get a motive power suf_l
clent to drive It at least 18 miles an
hour. He has apparently succeeded
With the wireless method. A 20-horse
bower engine driving two propellors
200 revolutions a minute he thinks
will enable the ship to proceed against
the wind. Before the wind It Is prob-
able that the machine would make 140
miles an hour with little effort.
A WONDERFUL: ROSE GARDEN.
Callfornia House Almost Hidden Be-
neath “White Bankslas.”
| San Franctsco.—This beautiful mass
of white- “Lady Banksla” roses was
photographed fn this state. Owlng
largely to the almost perfect climate
flowers are always plentiful through:
out the year, and one kind rapidly suc
ceeds another.
As will be seen, the rose bas almost
smothered the house. which peeps
out here and there amid the masses
‘of white blossoms.
| Californfa fs certainly the garden-
er's Paradise, for practically bis only
task fs to curtail the growth of his
flowers and prevent thelr becoming
too luxuriant...
‘The fruit-growing industry is very
important fo this part of the United
States, large quantities of oranges be-
Ing exported, Quantities of fruit
grown there are canned, and thus the
inbabitants of foreign countries are
able to enjoy frult at seasons of the
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Home Covered with Roses.
year when It would not otherwise be
available.
| They Climb Up Their Hale.
‘The ers-gatherers of St. Kilda con-
sider themselves rich If thelr prospec-
uve brides are able to furnish them
with a rope of human hair. The ropes
vary In length. a really good one of 40
or 50 feet being especially prized.
The usual kind Is a stout hempen
cord Wrapped round and round with
sheep's wool. over this {3 a lining of
horsehair; finally braids of human
hair. To manufacture such a rope Is
the work of years, but the St. Kildan
girl scrupulously saves her hair.
combings. A curiosity collector wished
to huy a fine specimen of halr rope,
but the $125 offered was refused. The
cord in question was veneered with
auburn halr—the 30 years’ collection
{rom heads of parents, aunts and cou.
sins,
Once a Year Playtime.
In most countries a girl considers
her dolls and toys her own posses
sions, to appropriate at any and al
times. This Is not so with the Japa
nese girl. To play with her dolls 1s
an event—a joy which comes to her
but once a year. There Js a party
alsoa meal. This {s served on the
floor with some sort of sweets, and
not to partake {s considered very bad
form. The next day the treasures are
removed and packed away, the girl
longing for the day when she shall
again enjoy her ever-increasing fam-
ly. It fs a common thing to see as
nany as 100 or more dolls in one
aome.
The Swiftest Animal.
The Colorado fox runs faster than
-ny other living animal, and the chee-
ak, or bunting ‘eopard, holds second
place.
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“BIG BILL” MASON, NOTED CRimp.
NAL, AGAIN BEHIND Bang,
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Was Well Known in Chicags Gambtign
Circles—Arrested in Wisconsin,
Sent to Waupun, gy
Made His Escane.
Laporte, Ind.—The doors of she
diana state prison have open, aot
to one of the most noted erimn 2
the country. His real name is Rey
Keegan, but he Is best known ag rd
BIN” Mason, '
Mason as W.®r, Wright was yr
up under the old law to serve gt
years. After about three Mey ae
escaped and was finally toc
Cherry Hill, Pa. He was guess
sible chance after and weno,
at the expiration of his term 7
“Big BIN” Mason 16 ja~ic.ay
well known fa Chicago, the-e sis 4
Scene of many of bis exploit arasg
“Mike” MeDezald’s and George Hay
kins’ gambling houses he was nowy
as the high.“roller of faro *
He hag pursued all the branches ¢t
crime, and while he has been surcers
ful in them all he has spent nearly 35
years In prison. So that in the te
ance he strikes in his fifty 6tth yeu
the account fs heavily arainst hin,
In the Northfield bank raid in whi
he participated with the Younger arq
James boys, he was “the kit ta a]
of Mason’s arrests he was well prp
vided with “ball money” and was aby
to get.the best of criminal talent at
the bar to fight his cases It was by
boast that he never pleaded gusty
After ‘a wild spectacular career Hy
son appeared {n Obfcago and made bis
beadqoarters at Dave Thoroton's
“House of David” in Clark street He
was always well provided with zone
and ostensibly his business was to
make a show of It by busing érichs
for anybody and everybody
Meanwhile he was playtog fara ia
McDonald's place, and occasionally fa
‘Hankins’ plaee across the street He
‘was generally a winner and was acczs
tomed to leave a sum of money h
Thornton's to the credit of fellows wa
were down and out. Usually it wig
he sald, 10 per cent of his winnen
If he lost he put a $10 bill there a:y.
way for the same purpore, saying tt
the Lord and the gambler alike lored
a cheerful giver and he wouldat tare
luck if he were not ready to divide.
Mason at this time was about 25 or
26 years old. In appearance he was
a striking tigure, six fcet tall. straight
as a dart, broad shoulders and with
the easy movement and grace of §
panther. But his face was agucst
bim. It was hard and cruel of er
pression.
Before he left Chicago, howerer bj
determined to make one big play. 121)
he broke Hankins’ bank. A short ti
before that the house of H F Wht
con, president of the Wisconsls Cem
tral railroad, in Milwaukee, bad bees
entered and robbed. The spoil wt
traced to a “fence” in Chicago atect
the time Mason made his big play at
Hankins’ faro bank.
‘The “fence” gave Masa away.
While the Milwaukee police were ar
ranging to arrest him at Thornton’
place the hangers on at the gambllog
house planned to rob him Four of
them attacked-tm, but he beat thea
all and escaped to the street just a
the police came up and took him He
was taken to Milwaukee and there i>
duced two detectives to enter his cell
on the pretense of giving up He
seized them both and threw then tio
lently against the rear wall of tbe cel
In a moment he was out in the com
dor and running toward the mao e
trance. One of the detectives st
him, but he got away. A few nig
afterward a badly wounded m2
dragged himself to the door of tt
house of J. I. Case, in Racine ovter
of Jay-Eye-See, the trotting horre He
was delivered up to the police sot
sent to Waupun state prison fcr elsit
years.
Waupun {fs regarded as one of tht
safe prisons of the United Srater dot
Mason sawed his cell door, sawed 0¢
bars from & window out of the ¢elk
house, 2 task that under the circa
stances must have taken some weelt,
scaled a wall and was free. The prirca
authorities had previously carved
that “Big Bill” had escaped ferm the
Los Angeles prison and kep’ & clo#
watch on him. Early one morning 19
1898 there was a police fight in New
York which ended {n Mason Thoms
Reilly and James Coffey delcg (37
ured. That battle ts a trad.ten of
eal glory to the New York yollee
force. Since then Mason has wi¢tt
nearly all his thme in prison
J EXISTS ENTIRELY ON CRACKERS.
Vermont Woman Eats 325 Barrels tf
Then in Sixty-Three Years.
Readsboro, Vt—Over 500.1 crack”
ers have kepf life in the body ‘f Mrs
Cynthia C. Jikison of Readsbi~ Vt
for more than 63 years.
She {s now more than 73 +."- of
age, and has subsisted on a 173 Xe?
diet ever since she wastenca~ 4
The unusual distinction of ta: 0
eaten more crackers than ao: j¢-#2
who ever lived ts hers. *
Her body fs bullt on eracnes *¢
youth and middle*age nurture’ ‘2
them, and now in her declioiny -*a7$
she still wards off the grim “3i2%
with a cracker.
During her lifetime she has eaten as
many as 325 barrels of crackers.
“Crackers for breakfast, cracke"s
for dinner and crackers for supper—
and my fiends havevlong called =e
Polly,” fs her own comment on ber
subsistence.
Lee Station, New Jersey ave & Cst.
ROYAL BLUE LINE.
Trains "Every other hour on the odd
hour."
*7 oo a.m. Diner, Pullman Parlor.
*9 oo a.m. Buffet, Parlor 5 Hr.Train
*5 oo a.m. Diner and Pullman Parlor
Car
*1 oo a.m. Diner and Pullman Par-
lor Car
*1 oo p.m. Diner and Pullman Par-
lor Car
*1 oo p.m. Royal Limited." All
P. lman Coaches to Phill I. 4 o p.m. Diner and Pullman Parlo. 5 o o p.m. Coaches to Philadelphia 8 o o p.m. Sleepers. 1 3 o p.m. Sleepers. 5 a.m. Sleepers. Lantic City, $ 7.00, $ 9.00 $ 11.00 a.m. 10 o o p.m.
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14. 215 2 17 5.00 6.36 7.00, 7.20, 8.00
18. 18, 10.00 11.00 a m, 12.00 b m
20. 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.45, 5.00, 5.03, 5.30
23. 05 00.00 10.00, 18.15 d m,
6.00 00.00 10.00, 18.15 d m,
7.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00 a m
Sand
10. 10 13.00 5.30, 5.30, 8.00, 10.00
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PITTSBURG
11:00 a.m. 9:15 p.m. and
12:00 right
CLEVELAND
COLLUVILS
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WHEELING 10 m. 14:05 15:00 p.m.
WINCHESTER
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ANNAPOLIS, week k 6720, 2. m.
12:55 noon, 4:45 op.m. ..
Sunday 30 a.m nd5:30 p.m
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INNAPOLIS, WEEK k 472 0, 3 m.
12:55 noon, 4:15 op.m. ..
Sunday 3:00 a.m nd5:30 p.m
LRA ELKTON 2 m Th ghparlor
FREEDOWN K $6.15, $9. 10.00, 122.00 a.m
11:00 p.m.
HAYER TOWN TOWN and $5.00 m
BOY $10.00, $124.30 m.
GATHEN-KURG and olnts. $5.00
$2.00 $1.15, t
$10.15, $113.30p
WASHINGTON JUNCTION appoint
a.m $1.15, $5.00, $15.15, m.
Friday Sunday $Sult nt
Bagcrave a for and checkedly hoste
and resides by Union Transfer ny or
orders in set offices, 619 Pennsy. la av
new York avenue tenth
street station.
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. BARBARIANS.
Have the spirits of Nat Turner,
Crispus Attucks, Charlés Charles,
and Tousiant L’Overture gone for-
ever? Are there none who will die
.that niillions may be free? Who
will rise in defense of a helpless
and oppressed race against the bar-
barians in the South? What has
become of our boasted civilization?
‘The poor white trash of the South
will be the cause of the downfall of
a republic. Nothng short of an-
other civil war will put at rest the
Southern barbarians. Thousands
of United States marines are at the
‘shores of Cuba to suppress free-
dom and independence, while the
shores of Atlanta are bedecked with
the corpses of innocent colored cit-
izens. Not satisfied with this, the
mob has made its way to the pre-
cincts of the colored colleges and
forced from the sleeping chambers
the teachers and students. What
does all this mean? Atlanta! the
Palisades of the South. In the se-
cret recesses of the bed chambers
the shotgun and Winchesters have
been taken out and used against
the innocent to satisfy the preju-
dice thirst of rebels who care inoth-
ing for civilization; whose con-
science sleeps the “calm and tran-
quil slumber of repose.” ‘What is
civilization to the white man of
the South? The barbarians in the
jungles of Africa have more con-
science than the semi-barbarians in
the South. Our government is but
a plaything to the South. Repub-
lican Presidents have so humili-
ated themselves to such an extent
that the Constitution under which
it governed is not respected. What
respect has, the South for the
North ‘With’ impunity are the laws
‘of the United States defied until
the violators of our laws have come
to the conclusion that the national
government has no law that they)
are bound to respect. The Repub-
lican party has been coquetting ed
the South long enough. The his-
tory of reconstruction should teach)
the party such a lesson that it should
not forget. The cowardly surren-
der of the Southern States by the
Republican party under the Hayes
administration and the subsequent
acts of that party and its presi-
dents and representatives are suffi-
cient to cause other nations to lose
tespect for our government. The
colored citizen lives in a govern-
ment and under a flag that demand
no respect from intruders and trait-
ors within. The governor of a
Southern State commands no more
Tespect from a mob thag an inno-
cent colored citizen who is to be
lynched by that same mob. Why
is it necessary to have governors
of Southern States? Is it merely
_t0 carry out the letter of the Con-
stitution.of the United States,which
is a mockery ot an alleged civilized
republic? While thousands of
black citizens, women and children,
are trembling with fear in Atlanta
the administration is at Oyster Bay
planning how to snatch from the
liberators of Cuba their independ.
ence, Taft is hobnobing with Pal.
ma while Cuba is about to be in
vaded by United States troops sc
that anather republic may be in.
fested with American prejudice.
The United States is bold enough
when a few colored men rise up
to defend themselves, but when
traitors rise up in the South the
whole adminstration will visit that
section for the purpose of making
concessions. Instead of treating
with these barbarians, the govern-
ment shoul send an armed force
arid treat with the Winchester load-
ed with.gunpowder. Nothing clse
will civilize the South, The Re-
publican party may empty the en-
tire United States treasury and give
every office to these barbarians, and
then there would be no change in
the atmosphere. It seems to The
Bee that the Republican party had
enough of this temporizing with the
South.
A.gootPsoldier prepares for war
in the time of peace.
THE RAPISTS AND THE
TYNCHERC
COLOURS SHCHE RAVe ULLUINS OU US Mie:
that innocent women cannot rest
quietly in their homes without being
assaulted? Is the white man South
free from prostituting the bodies
of colored women, of which noth-
ing is said? John Temple Graves.
who telegraphed those fiery inveo-
tives from his State to the Daily
Post, is no longer the civilized ad-
yocate of human rights, justice and
equality before the Jaw, but a man
who has lost his sensés and reason,
and tells the lynchers to avenge the
innocent if the guilty cannot be
brought to justice.“ Why should
the innocent be lynched? {Why
should’ the peaceable, the respect-
able and the law-abiding citizen be
inade to suffer for the crimes com-
mitted by the alleged brute? John
Temple Graves says nothing of the
colored bastards for whom the
white South is responsible. He
would have the North believe that
every colored men in the South is
uilty of rape upon innocent white
women. His dispatch to The Post
is cowardly and unmanly. It is an
attempt to put the North against
the helpless blacks in the South.
It is an attempt of Jolin Temple
Graves to advertise his new pub-
lication. These brutal outrages in
the South against innocent colored
citizens will meet with a just retri-
bution at the proper time. Colored
womanhood in the South is disre-
garded as colored manhood is at
the North. While crime in any
shape is unjustifiable, -the killing
of innocent colored men is more
so, and the time will soon come
when the colored man will use the
torch, the bomb and other weapons
of defense. Russia is hanging to-
day in the balance on account of
the oppression of the serfs. The
weaker classes are oppressed and
brutal aristocracy is crushing the
life out of the poor. The rapists
in the South may, be found among
the whites as well as among the
blacks. ‘What evidence has the
North that these rapes were com-
mitted by the blacks? The naked
declaration of the lynchers is no
evidence of the identity of the rap-
ists. The civilization of the South
of which John Temple Graves
speaks is but a mockery and a sham.
Where is any civilization in the
South? AUmitting what this dis-
patch asserts to’be true, was there
any justification for killing inno-
cent and peaceful colored citizens?
Colored gentlemen were dragged
from street cars beside colored la-
dies and kiled. O, where is the
South's boasted civilization? What
has become of the oft-repeated sto-
ty of Henry Grady? The colored
man is humble, He tamely submits
{s everything that is brutal and un-
fair, and his defenseless condition
forces him ta tamely submit to con-
victions of crimes of which he is
{not guilty. The colored law-abid-
ing citizen does not condone crime,
| He has no respect for the rapist any
{more than he has for the Southern
‘| white man who lives in open prosti
‘|tution with “the colored woman.
‘| John Temple Graves declares thai
'| the only solution of the race prob
‘{lem is the separation of the races
If they are separated, how will th
‘colored woman be separated fron
the white man? Will Mr. John
Temple Graves explain this? Will
he teach the Southern white man
good morals?
Let the rapist and the lyncher die,
and the white man who prostitutes
colored womanhood, .
WHEN HE IS RIGHT.
ee eae ee ee ee,
The Washington Bee is to be con-
gratulated upon its broad and liberal
editorial policy, especially as regards it:
policy towards Booker Washington. I
is a well known fact that the Bee has
opposed many policies of Mr. Washing-
ton, and we are willing to concede to
any man the right of difference of opin-
fon. But be it to the credit of The Bee,
it is manly enough and charitable enough
to give praise when and where it is due.
‘Therein lies the difference in editorial
opinion arising from honest conviction
and editorial persecution which unfor-
|tunately is true of one-or two of our
which they have been treated. If col-
contemporaries. :
Our able contemporary, the Fra-
ternal Union, is right in its senti-
ment towards The Bee. It is true
that The Bee has vigorously oppos-
ed and criticised many policies ‘of
Mr. Booker T, ‘Washington because
we believed, as we do now, that he
has made many mistakes, and The
Bee is charitable enough to give
him credit for what he is dong for
the good that he is now doing for
oppressed humanity. The Bee is
willing to overlook his mistakes for
the good that he is now doing for
«tis people. It is not presumed that
‘Mr. Washington intentionally in-
tended to misrepresent his people,
and The Bee is inclined to the opin-
ion that the future advancement of
the colored race will be due to his
industrial and business training in
the American body politic, Mr.
Washington in many of his recent
speeches has declared that he is
opposed to the disfranchisement of
his people South. What more
should we demand of him? He
asserts that he is in favor of edu-
cating the colored race in the same
branches that the «white man is.
Shall we ask any more of him?
In his speech delivered at Winona,
Ind., he manfully and eloquently de-
fended his people. Is he not to
be given credit for it? The Bee
has come to the conclusion to sup-
port Mr. \Vashington in the right
and disagree with him when, in the
opinion of The Bee, he is wrong.
The Bee has no favorites, either
among the whites or the blacks.
The Bee has found in negro lead-
ership, especially among the office-
of colored representatives who
would be leaders. The truckling
colored politician in America has
done the colored race more harm
South and elsewhere than Mr.
Washington has done. These very
same politicans condemn Mr.Wash-
ington for doing what they have
attempted to do, and failed. When
many of these sycophantic poli-
ticians have gone to the Executive
Mansion they have trembled and
agreed with everythng the Presi-
dent said. They have not had man-
hood enough to tell the President
that his Souther policy is wrong.
The Bee knows of no exceptions,
Our colored officeholders are a set
of cowardly knaves, and for that
reason the President has had no
respect for them. The Bee is op-
posed to the politcal policy the
President is pursuing in the South
and his ingratitude to the faithful
colored Republicans, The colored
leaders (?) would have Mr, Wash-
ington to tell the President this,
but they dare not tell him. Since
Bruce, Doiiglass, Langston, Pinch-
back and others have made their
exits from off the political stage,
‘What has and what is this new
leadership among the colored peo-
ple doing in comparison to Mr.
CELLOR,
The ‘report of a recent meeting
fn which one of the speakers char-
acterized Superintendent Chancel-
lor as “a figurehead” and Mrs.Ter-
rell and Dr. Atwood as being in-
imical to the public school system,
is erronedusly false. Superintend-
ent Chancellor, of whom the best
educators in the country speak as
being a broad-minded, progressive
man without prejudice. Mr. Chan-
cellor is doing everything in his
power to build up the schools in
this city and place them upon a
basis of admiration and usefulness
to the children who attend them.
Mrs, Cooper and Mr, Clark were
offered schools in place of the posi-
tions they heretofore held. It is
to be regretted that both declined
because they deemed themselvs too
big for the positions offered them.
Mrs. Cooper wanted a vindication.
This she received last year when
the Board of Education unani-
mously reappointed her, after an
invesugation and over the protest
of Mr, Hughes. The Bee, with
others, advocated the reappoint-|
ment, It will not be denied that
the investigation at that time dis-
closed conditions that a change in
the principalship of the High
School was necessary. The Bee
feels confident that the superin-
tendent is not satisfied with present
conditions in the High School. Not
only is an educator needed in the
High School, but a man with a
strong executive ability. Mr. Clark
formerly a supervising principal, as
The Bee sai@ some time ago, was
a successful teacher and a great
help to the teachers. Unlike one
or two supervising principals in the
schools who presumed that they
had unlimited authority over the
teachers, either or both of these
nen could have been better spared
than Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark was
yadly advised when he refused the
position offered him. He could
have made a record that would
ave been commendable to himself
and the Board of Education, The
Bee has always advocated the ap-
ointment of a superintendent who
vould protect the teachers, and it
s believed that the present super-
ntendent is that man and not a
igurehead, as he has been charac-
erized by a speaker at a recent
nublic meeting, The best evidence
f the usefulness of Mrs. Terrell
mn the Board is her recent act in
ermitting High School graduates
o enter the Normal School without
1 examination, That act alone is
nore beneficial to the parents and
children than anything that has
wen done in the Board of Educa-
ion for years. \
THE ATLANTA MOB.
| “And thou too, Brutus?” It is
‘indeed surprising to The Bee that
‘Atlanta, Georgia, would be guilty
‘of such a nefrious crime as that
committed there Saturday, Septem-
ber 22d. One would have thought
that the recent meeting of the Ne-
gro Business League and Mr.
Washington's good speech would
ieee had a more telling effect on
the minds and heart of the mob
in Atlanta, Ga. If the press «is-
patches are true, the leaders of that
mob wefe small boys and poor white
men without responsibility. It is
generally this class of individuals
who Iéad all mobs in every State.
Mr. iWashington was right in his
advice to the coolred people to have
nothing to do with those who com-
mit crimes. But in this instance
the persons who were guilty of com-
mitting these alleged assaults were
not molested, but innocent men in
the company of ladies were taker
from the street cars and brutally
murdered. It is quite evident tha!
even the respectable colored peo-
ple, in Atlanta were shot dows
by the mob. The police sys
tem must be rotten in the State
While innocent colored citizen:
were being pursued and killed no
the least resistance was made. No
one colored citizen attempted to de
| fend himself although he would hav
been justifiable. It seems that th
| Jews and the laboring man are op
| pressed in this country and when
ever they attempt to defend them
selves they aré declared to be un-
welcome citizens. The white peo-
ple of Atlanta have boasted of their
civilization, If recent events are
proof of it, what must be said of
other cities in the South where
white terrorists reign?
The South had -better cease its
Brutality towards the colored man
before it is too late. The oppressed
colored citizen cannot Inger tol-
erate these oppressions without
striking back. They must defend
themselves, altlough a few may die.
A few may die so that others may
be free. If innocent citizens can-
not claim protection under this flag
where are they to get it? The
object of the Business League in
going to Atlanta, although many
had to Jim Crow it, was, to show to
the people in the South the superior
civilization of the colored business
man,
The mobs that assaulted those in-
nocent citizens were indeed, imbued
with prejudice, hatred and jealousy
of the higher civilization of the col-
ored business man. “And thou too,”
Atlanta, Georgia?
WHERE SHOULD HE GO?
After having fought to uphold
this republic, and thousands buried
in the bosom of Mother Earth, the
living are still battling for an in-
dependence whereby they may en-
joy the fruits that should have come
to them ere now. But the question
is, ‘Where shall the colored Amer-
ican go? The more he strives to
uphold a republic which guarantees
equal protection to all citizens, the
more the colored man is pursued
and persecuted. He was emanci-
pated under certain conditions, and
he has long since paid the penalty.
Is there no hope for future Protec-
tion? Parties have used him to
their advantage and convenience,
and at last their declaration of prin-
ciples guarantees nothing, It can-
not be said that the race is vicious,
neither can it be said that he is dis-
loyal to the flag. It can be said,
however, that he is against himself,
The American colored man lacks
unity of action, which is one of the
ingredients to failure in life. The
Bee is constrained to admit that
the colored youth must be educat:
ed in the industrial arts. Politics
must be an incident, and not the
direct object of his citizenship. He
can be manly, industrious and eco-
nomical, The accumulation of
Property will undoubtedly give him
a standing in this country, notwith-
standing the opposition -to him. |
While he may have lots of enemies
among the ignorant’ and selfish
whites, there are whites in this
country who believe in fair-play and
humane treatment. Not every white
man is jealous of the colored man’s
progress, .and neither does every
white man believe that the entire
race will commit crime. It is also
true that many crimes committed are
not done by colored people, and the
few guilty ones should not be
charged against the entire race.
America is the colored man's home,
He is Part of this republic, and
there is no other place for him to
go.
THE END OF THE FISCAT VErD
Mae ee ae ee ee | eee
The National Baptist Publishing Board
has issued the eleventh annual report of
the Home Mission Board, together with
the tenth. Too much praise cannot be
given to Rev. R. H. Boyd, D,D., cor-
tesponding secretary. “
. The report for the year ending Au-
gust thirty-first shows an increase in the
amount of money collected, the distribu-
tion of literature, homes found without
the Bible, number of churches helped
to organize and number of new schools,
‘The report shows a decrease in the num-
her of days of service, number of mis.
sionary societies formed, number of mis.
sionary and Bible conferences held ane
the cash supplement on missionaries
salaries.
The Board feels the need of more co.
Operative work on the fields at home
today more than ever before, and give
four reasons for urging upon all wh
have any interest in the work the im
Portance of getting all the facts con
cerning the Baptists of the United States
The report is worthy of consideratio
not only to the Baptist but to all whe
have any interest in doing good.
The Home Mission Board is compose
of some of the best men -ofthe Baptis
denomination. Mrs. J. T. Clark of ou
city is a member of it. %
READ THE BEE.
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PARAGRA PHIC \Ey 2
Continued from Pore
Ex-Congressman Clay, |
died ast Tueday nigh 97S
Hospital, St. Lowis..M. feo
It is said that Seer 7
Tuesday decided not to 4
meat in the list of mew ;- "=
cause of the small perec:+ e ne
in it. Te will not escape inp, . 78
will be left to the pure { un uy
| The streets in China - :
an an average cight feer ,
The eye has forty-eg'- . , a
eases, 7
PRESS COMMENT,
eee 8S CONN
From the Kentucky Stam’ -
Not until the negro Bets 2
where he will vote for 5, . 7%
fespective of party afi ry
pledges himself to gnc
“square deal” will he hav e
tion of his rights as am
So long as the negro v. +, 7
a man simply because + =,
the Republican party, int g”
the Republican party corp ic
his needs and permmt divenx 1, x
indignities of every hind , - oye
upon him. .
The Republican par «1 i
the party of 1860. TE Mick 1 eon
and not slaves, they will "=. 25
lican’ party a few plan fun + on
will reap the consequences *
~ NO FANS IN PURG «tap
From the Pacific Medical Ts ~
The Reverend Frederick \ Cg
Of the Catholic Church of Now (2 ¢
Delaware, is opposed to the ps fs
during worship. Ata te + S—5
mass he told the congregatyn # -
could not understand why riey 1
not put up with a little heat He wep
ed them that they might all he te
tory before long and that vhr-e ”
no fans there.
We should like to know how e an
ed Divine Knows that there are r- les
in purgatory?
WHY DO THEY-
From the Chicago €onservar +
_, According to the Memphis muspages
8.000 Negro Baptists gatheret + the
city last week in a nationa! i reste
This great convention of rae ‘eader
and fathers passed resolutions ews
ing the treatment of the black peri
in the Congo Free State, tut were zx
dumb as oysters on the outrages crm
mitted on, their people in thi, 7 —*rr
by their white brethren in Chee St
some people wonder why trv mmr.
cans. despise the negro,
NEGROES SHOULD pi\rRsity
THEIR POLITICS
From the Forum.
Why don't the negroes aver the S th
like the negroes North, divide ther Ke.
tics between the Republican ard Dent
¢ratic parties? That will be the he
thing we know for their redempt oe
Politically. Southern negroes are grt
ting along finely industrially but the
will never be an important fat > a
their national affairs until they Feccat
component parts in the gesemaet
under which they live and te wha
they are subjected. Negroes chev'd 2
their judgment in local affairs and st
confine themselves to one path rete
sarily. But whatever or person we
port, know that he stands fur {er aad
just administration of the ax. zd
equitable distsibution of the sp Ts
is applied, primarily, to the Sovth wh
has never taken but one stan? urd tt
ceived fess. especially in Inca! Fats
THOSE LAWS
SEES SS OOURwesterm Chris" at 6 1
cate.
The separate street car system tht
South, particularly in New Orr:
an inconsistent and disgust g “1 7#&
ment. On last Sunday mht » 44
2 negro, having on his working “tt
his outer garment being what < 02'S
call a “jumper,” go forward at “ake a
seat beside a well-dressed .7° 7°
and there was no complaint fr" "
son that this négro’ was a t<"° 6
another white lady and hat «* tub @
his arms. There was no hick ~~
motion, no attention paid whatever.
the incident, although the mgs w= 7
attractive and illy clad. but "3
white baby in his arms—that “ule “*
difference. Had he been'a we'l #7"
well-clad, self-respecting mgr “¢*
have been bruised, driven i= * #
and given a heavy fine. Me os 7"
South are made to swt th =
of the law-makere—that's 7) '*
it.
| IT CERTAINLY '§
a Se See
The wisely buzzing Wer's' * Be
helieves that neither the Rep» 7%
Democratic party care a ch >
for the negro vote and ai >" “**
to fall in with the social 1!” ey
The Detroit Informer “ors” ~ 7
the motion The New Yrre \
calling things by their proper ram”
Freeman talks loud and lorg 1° :
ers thinking before instead or "©
aggressive Boston Guardan is show
up the Republican, fakirs 1" "
and we are hoping that th.- ” cae
arousing the voters to think bere" "™
act may bring results. It 1s «rt
time, it’s time, it’s time 7
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ve gracy subtcribers with Collectors.
ee sae. subscription Depast-
een cf The Washingion Bee, 1000 Eve
gett, Ne We '
4M «Garson has come to the
Mee Jovepbine Carson, who
aes tte wath relatives jn Char-
Td eqeln, N.C Miss Carson
4 dong the winter season.
+x ht Ballard” has setumed
1a, W Va, after a pleasant
. + yerents
1. | Barbour and daughter
+ Baltimore, Md.
+ (5 6 Lamphing visited Atlantic
<1) Puls af Newport News is
st of town scholars who
+ tw High School, -
+ \ssander, who visited many:
+ cost the past season, has
“omy, .
+ Uarns, of New York city,
: «+ mother, Mrs. M. Carter,
ab treat, NAV
+ dre ner has returned from
+ + tw N.C, where she was
+g her aunt, Mrs, Ella Colbert.
Vert. BR Washington, of Lovejoy,
+ + Howard University.
vs Aelia Williams and daughter,
\ Harts, have returned to their
Manta, Ga. :
i Mrs Dowling have as their
Ms HC Wallace, Dr. and
\ Witham, of Greenville, Mise,
~ G_ Brown spent some days
+c atvestin West Virginia. |
+ Fisrence Payne of New York
+ at raed te: school at Howard:
Ms Annie C. Haris of Watertown,
vee shack to pursue her studies at
ATs versity,
t+ the many tudents who have
vrs‘ Howard. is Miss Elizabeth
C+ 1 Annapolis, Md.
Yt ad Williams has retumed to,
Fes oe at Cleveland, While here he
wee S. guest of Hon. W. T. Vernon,
“- 1 Thomae left a few days ago
to .1s parents, who live at Ports-
nahh. 4
XM Cle Come visited Baltimore Last
Yeh asd was entertained by Mr. and
Mr) Gaanng
Mr Lt Reval of Newport News
Soin the ony and expects t2 remain dur-
reg winter
Mies Agnes Jones of Charlotte, N.C.
<n th oun pee her brother, Mr.
“hes Tews
Rev Neptnne H. MeTier, a graduate
4% Howard Divinity School of Wash-
“Res wis married on the 5th of this
> ‘tu Mus Carne B. Rogers, one of
‘ec wacliers of Darien, Ga, a lady of
be! wrary attamments.
M+ leh T. Rhines of Nashville,
wo here and expects to remain
ere te
We 1-H Welch of Charleston, S.C,
Frau on this erty a few days ago.
Mr and Mrs JE, Smith, Mrs. R. L,
Ver ant Mr. Joseph Carter of Wash-
TE were royally entertained by Mrs.
ie a ', at her home, Cheyenne,
Ys 0 1 Blalock has returned to
i as Atlanta, Ga. after visiting
<* seer and other Northern cities.
\ Fd Logan of Chicago is here
itr Iansamece,
M-.- Paunell is visiting her sis-
wi. M- R Paynter, at her home, Jer-
“TP Hell rs here from Louisville,
\ see her son, Mr. Sydnor Bell
: University, and Mrs. RH.
_*) tf ward, after spending a very]
Ae 1, Mas the guest of his sister,
_ | Reston, Mass, has returned
“4. Robinson of this city play-
s + ng march at the marriage of
\ Tohneon at Harpers Ferry.
‘eds of Mrs. Ella Swinburg
* + cat ta know of her success in
“|, 2 werk in Philadelphia.
“CLR, Robinson assisted Mrs.
\ +s vene im receiving at a reception
t Mrs Greene at her home Bing-
= Sy
__ Meerie Rowlett has returned
“> S mmit, N. J, where she spent
“tw ter, ~
“\ tea was given in honor of Mr. anc
Mrs. A.D. Chatpan by Mr. and Mrs
4. S. Hill at their home, Hartford, Conn
Mr. C. F. Baker, wife and daughter
Miss Lillian, were the guests of Mr. anc
Mrs, Allen, while visiting Washington
Miss Bettie Brown, who visited Wash
mgton on her Eastern tour, has returne
to her home, Terrell, Texas,
Mr. James C. Holmes, who has beer
on a vacation to New York, Atlantic
City, Cape May and Long Branch anc
several other points, retuned a few day:
ago looking well.
Miss Florance Smallwood, who ha:
been to Cape May, has réturned to the
city.
Mrs, Laura V. Contea and her daugh:
ter, Miss Ollig} have returned to the city
fiorh Westchester, Penna, and New
York City, ishere they have been for
several weeks.
°Miss Mand A. Baxter and mother,
who have been in Maryland for some
ume have returned to the city.
Col. Phil Waters of Charleston, W.
Va., will visit the city shortly.
Mr. J. A. Lankford left the city for
the South a few days ago.
RECEPTION TO LAWYERS.
‘The reception to the lawyers last ev-
ening by Rev. S. L. Corrothers was one
af the largest that has ever taken place
am this city. Full particulars will appear
in The Bee next week,
OLD FRIENDS DINE WITH HIM.
Attomey Thomas Walker, a prominent
member of the bar of this city, entertain-
ed at dinner last Tuesday afternoon at
the buffet of Mr. James Gray three of
his old friends with whom he served in
the Alabama Legislature in the good old
days of Republican rule, The guests
sichonor were Dr. T. A. Williams, for-
metly of Mabama, but now of Cincinnati,
0. and editor of the Brotherhood; Mr.
G S.W. Lewis, and J. H. Goldsby, all of
Ala. and Attorney W. Calvin Chase, of
The Bee, who was also invited. Messrs.
Williams, Lewis and Goldsby served the
Legislature in Alabama with Mr. Walker
before he maie this city his home. The
affair was novel and unique. Remin-
iscences of reconstruction days were ree
called and the part they all took in de-
fense of the Republican party and the
colored man South. Attorney Walker
has quite a history which is both inter-
esting and entertaining. In-spcaking of
the part each one took in politics At-
torney Walker was regarded the James
G. Blaine of Alabama Legislature. He
was always the foremost in debates on
the Republican side and a terror to
Democrats. Mr. Lewis ‘was the, old
wheel horse of his gounty who came
very near being fatled on fw ccrasions
by Democrats. He was the man of
Alabama who could never be bribed.
Dr. Williams is now an eminent phy-
sician in Ohio, He had to take ticket-
of-leave man before he was ready. The
rebels in the South had no love for him,
+0 he had to hunt a climate more con-
genial to him. The short time that
cach relator had to tell of the good old
tays of Republican rule and glory was
short, but sufficient was related to make
the occasion long ‘to be remembered. The
life of Attorney Walker of Alabama
was a lively one. He was regarded as
one of the most astute politicians in
the State. When he left politics and
his State and came to this city he has
been living a quiet but business life. He
is today one of ,the most active and
progressive civil lawyers at the bar and
indeed one of the most successful.
Mr. Gray put up one of his most
select repasts, including some of his best
perfectoes. The company were seated at
2.70 and concluded at 4.30 Dr. Wil-
liams left for his home in Cincinnati,
Ohio; Thursday evening, while the-other
guests will remain In the city some
time.
MOTHER OF “FREE” METHODISM
CELEBRATES 119TH ANNIVER-
SARY.
From the Citizen.
Bethel A. M. E, Church, Sixth street
below Pine, began last] Sunday an elab-
orate program in honot of the 119th an-
niversary of the birth of that connection.
Several churches of different denomina-
‘tions, among them Episcopal and Bap-
tists, will take part. And all should, that
possibly can, every lover of libery and
fas Play, should feel it an honor to be
Permitted to contribute something to-
wards the success of this celebration.
In these days of crying, whining
“Darky” slaves, mothe Bethel fills 4 most
fortunate position as a great example of
what man may do regardless of cir-
cumstances, once he resolves to be free.
All honor to Father Allen! Long live
the church he founded, 7
MRS: TERRELBS GOOD WORK.
} Editor af The Bee: .
| The resolution offered by Mrs. Mary
‘Church ‘Terrell in Board meeting on
Jie agth instant and which was nani:
mously passed, by which graduates of
the several High Schools are admitted
to their respective Normal Schools on
their High School diplomas and without
examination is of exceeding benefit to
the parents and pupils of this commun-
ity ay an effort was being made to re-
duce rather than increase the admissions.
Largely too through the earnest and
intelligent efforts of Mrs. ‘Terrell, al-
though Messrs. Cook and Atwood were
in full harmony and aiding the 1905 class
of Normal No, 2 on the same date, re-
ceived the recognition of its just claims,
which the committee of parents, Mr.
Fearing, Mrs, Curtis and Major Fleet-
wood have so patiently and persistently
pushed for a year before the old and
present board. ‘Of the thirty places to
which it is entitled it has now received
twenty, and more to follow. The fully
discredited order of ratings has been set
aside for that class, and appointments
made by selection, Furthermore it is
amply assured that future ratings will
be made by records, workings and ex-
amination, and not by Star Chamber
caducus as in the past. This is glory
enough for one day.
AR C
MISS BURROUGHS RETURNS
FROMI MEMPHIS.
From the Kentucky standard. -
Migs Nannie Helen Burroughs, Cor-
responding Secretary of the Woman's
Baptist Convention, Auxiliary to the Na-
tional Baptist Convention, has returned
from the annual meetittg of the National
Baptist Convention at Memphis, Tenn.
She is in excellent health and spirits,
despite the arduous strain of the ten
days’ sessions, and reports the conven-
tion to have been the most successful
held by the Baptists in the history of
that great denomination. Her report
was heard with enthugiasmt by the body,
and on the day that it was given out that
she was to speak, many white ladies
broke over the tradition of the section
and came to hear her. All expressed
themselves as pleased with her frank
and courageous treatment of the race
problem, and she did not mince her
ports in pointing out the duty of the
races toward each other. As a token
‘of the appreciation it felt for Miss Bur-
roughs’ conscientious and painstaking
labors for the denomination, the Wo-
man's Convention presented her with a
beautiful gold -bracelet, artistically carv-
ed and set with diamonds, swith mono-
gram plate and openings for medallion
photographs. The bracelet is the hand-
‘somest piece of workmanship The Stan-
dard representative has ever seen. Miss
Burroughs was also presented with a
highly ornamented gold fountain pen.
We learn from Miss Borroughs that
the Domestic Science Training School,
for the establishment of which she has
given much of her time and energy in
‘the laxt two. years, will be located at
Washington, D.C, by vote of the Con-
vention, ‘The site named gives univer-
sal satisfaction, as the demand for train-
ed domestics is exceedingly heavy in
that vicinity, and the facilities for reach+
‘ing and handling the classes mostly in
need of the training are exceptionally
good. Dr, E. C, Morris was unanimous-
ly re-elected President of the Conven-
tion for the sixteenth time, and Washing-
ton, D, C, was decided upon as the
next meeting place of the body, in Sep-
tember, 1907. It is hoped that the loca-
tion of the ‘Training School at Washing-
ton will not mean the removal of Miss
Burroughs to the national capital. She
has done a phenomenal work for Louis
ville and the Falls Cities, and this neigh-
horhood cannot spare her for many
Leer tes enae: .
MANNY JACKOBSON NOW AN
AMERICAN.
From The Evening Star.
Manny Jackobson, the Swedish sailor,
coxswain of a cutter, who dashed into
the channel in front of Santiago de
Cuba under a hot fire from El Moro
and lifted the cable during the Spanish-
American war, realized the dream and
ambition of his life in New York yes-
terday, American citizenship. It was an
ambition whch he has’ cherished since
his boyhood, even hefore he packed his
clothes into a chest when he was seven-
teen years-old and came over here, with
the idea that this was the greatest coun-
try on earth, and that he wanted to be
one of its citizens. Manny yesterday
exhibited with pride the congressional
medal atid the certificate of promotion
to chief petty officer which his exploit
won him. Manny is tventy-nine years
old and a fine specimen of the man-o'
wars-man, broad-shouldered, _hrown-
skinned, deep-chested. He comes of
good people in Stockholm, His brother,
Dr. I. Jundell Jackobson, is royal phy-
sician to King Oscar, director of the
royal hospital of Stockholm and was
president of the International Tubercu-
losis Congress at Vienna three years ago
Shilo Baptist Church
‘The public 1s requested to hold its
verdict ia the ease of the conspiracy
“grist Rev. JA. Andérson Taylor un-
L after uke investigation by Mr, Baker,
he United States District Attorney, who
2 (dared a thorough investigation of
te ef the most diabolical conspiracies
ths ever heen perpetrated against
2 hewnable man. No guilty man will
escape,
THE BLACKMAN’S PLEA. *
Written for The Ree)
‘ont you help a weaker brother,
Who is struggling hard to win;
Vho hay always stood up for you
In the past through thick and thin?
Won't you help him “ight his battle
Not for wealth ‘nor power nor fame
Bat just help him in the struggle
‘To gain an untarnished name?
Won't you help a poor poor, brother:
Who is striving day and nght,
One who always will stand by you
In the thickest of the fight?
Won't you pull down every barrier
‘That is thrown across his way;
Won't you remove every hindrance
‘That might cause him to delay?
Won't you help a weary. brother
Who is trying to climb the hill -
And is going upward slowly,
With a most determined will?
You will always find him faithful «
And he never fails to-serve,
He has both the brain and ‘muscle,
And you know he’s got the nerve,
Won't you help a much wronged brother
Who your folks have cast aside,
And claim that he’s such a monster
That they with him will not.ride?
Kaow you not this monster's mother
Held you in her bronzed arms,
And today your little infants
Know full well his sister's chatms,
Won't you help a toilenarn brother,
Who is trying hard to rise?
Won't you come to his assistance
Lest for lack of strength he dies?
Tf your brother makes a failure,
In the good old Sunny South;
In the judgment“he'll condemn you
Ry the wordy of your own mouth.
Won't you help a pleading brother
Who is starving for your love
Who is crying, pleading, praying,
Rrother just one little shove?
{f yowll help him up the ladder
Till he reach aeertain round,
Then hel push you onward upward,
‘Till no power can pull you down,
Won't you help a loving brother
‘Though his skin is dark, ‘tis true?
Yet he's taking lota of abuse
Simply for his love for you,
We hare lived so long together,
“Twouldn't do for us to part
Lest from gricf and downright sorrow
Roth might die of broken heart.
Give your dark-skinned brother justice
Save him from the lawless band;
And we'll dwell in’ peace together
In the good old Southern land.
If you take away his privilege
Aud still dare to. do him wrong,
Justice sir, will surely find you,
Let the time be short or long.
‘Treat, your humble brother fairly
Do'not try to tie his hands
Give him every right and privilege
That the supreme law demands,
And the black boy will revere you,
Praise you with his latest breath
And-your conscience will be easy
When you face the monster death.
Conway: Jackson:
THE TRUE REASONS WHY THE
WHITE MASONS FAIL TO REC-
OGNIZE THE COLORED BRO-
THER IN MASONRY IN
EE ITM TPem ers ene
7 SS Ta ee ee ee ee
§ least three-fourths of the colored
Matons of the United State ask the
question, why the white brother refuses
to meet with them as Masons. Those
in power know, but for their own per-
sonal reasons fail to impart the truth.
These facts are derived from a report
made to the Grand Lodge of Massachu-
setts (white) by a committee of emi-
nent Masons, which was approved, by
the Grand Lodge. First, their charter
from England was granted at a time
when all American Masonic authority
agrees that the Grand Lodge of Eng:
land had no power to make lodges in
the United States after the acknowledg-
ment of our independence, Nov. 30, 1782.
And the treaty of peace was made Nov.
3, 1783. s
Second, the Grand Lodge of England
dropped African Lodge from its list in
1873: again said lodge does not appear
to have worked since Prince Hal’s death
in 1807. And in 1827 persons calling
themselves African Lodge No. 459 re-
pudiated the Grand Lodge of England.
Third, the Grand Lodge of England
did not delegate to African Lodge any
power to constitute other lodges, or to
work elsewhere than in Boston.
Fourth, neither English nor any other
Maconie authority exists, nor has at any
time existed for those colored Iddges
located out of Boston to make Masons
or practice Freemasonry. Each of them
hegan its existence in defiance of the
Masonic community of the state where
located, and continues unrecognized by
the regular Masons of the state. (Syn-
‘opsis of report made to the Grand Lodge
Jof Mass. (white) in 1876 and approved.)
So today the only regular body of col-
lored persons that can work are the
corporated bodies who are incorporated
m accordance with the Act of Congress
appertaining to fraternal beneficial bod-
ies.
These are the main reasons that thé
colored bodies that incorporated did the
same relative to the A. A. S. R. meeting
held in New York Jan. 13: 1881, to form
a unification, It was moved that the
dociiment from Baron A. Hugo De Bu-
low be acknowledged as the original au-
thority for the establishment of the rite
in the U.S. Another party present stated
that he would amend by inserting the
Leary papers as they Had been issued
hy a body and the De Bulow by an in-
Aividual, an objection was made to the
Leary papers which was simple but ef-
fective, viz.: That the Leary papers
would not hold water or bear investi-
zation. .On the other hand the De Bu-
low papers and work was attested by
contemporary writers and history. The
amendment was not seconded or pressed,
the original motion was ‘passed. So it
will be seen that the A. A. S. R. Council
hich started the trouble in the D. C. BF
taking its fight into Blue Lodge for set-
tlement that its origin was exploded ‘at
this meeting and yet it claims to be the
only regular boty of the rite in the U.
S. among colored Masons. As we said
hefore, members of the order can well
see where the trouble is, all this trouble
today started by ‘foolishness on the part
of those in authority at that time. When-
ever grand lodges of Masons cut out
the landmarks of Masonry they cease to
he ‘a grand, lodge, Whenever officials
in Masonry can expell members because
they ‘publish a joke calling no names,
the same. (By the power in me invested
I hereby suspend, etc, and the act is
fone.) The 13th landmark gives the
right of appeal.
PHONETIC SPELLING.
- From The Independent Magazine.
Another college president, Benjamin
Ide Wheeler, of the University of Cali
fornia, has joined President Eliot in op-
posing the inconsiderable simplified spell-
ings approved by President Roosevelt
and ordered for use in the documents
under his control. President Wheeler
has a new argument, that the change
promises loss and waste in intercourse
and culture with other English-speaking
countries. But already, in the case of
half the words. the practice in England
differs from that in America, and it
causes no slightest loss of intercourse;
and we expect that other English-speak-
ing countries will follow our slow ad-
vance. But President Wheeler may take
ir out with his neighbor, President Jor-
dan, of Leland Stanford University, who
is on the Simplified Spelling Board,
MRS DEAN.
| Mrs. Katie L. Dean, of the W. C. T.
IU, Safi: has, he@t spending’ some trae
with her brothers in Steclton, Pa, and
in Long Branch, N. J, has returned to
the city ready to assume her duties
among weak and lowly women and girls
in the Police Court Mrs. Dean is 2
worthy benefactor and a woman who
‘aught to be assisted hy the churches.
Mise Lena Hewltt dra heen appointed
to a position in the schools of Long
Island, N.Y. after having, passed a
successful examination. :
ONE MORE “P.” :
.' From The Dallas Express. |
Ben Tillman says that wheneyer 2
negro gets an education he takes to one
of the three P's—preaching, politics, ot
the penitentiary. Since Joe Gans has
had the audacity to wipe up the earth
with Nelson, the Pitchfork statesman
might increage the list of p's by adding
prize-fighting.
THE INDEPENDENT.
We have just received’ a copy of The
Independent, a weekly magazine pub-
lished in New York city. The magazine
contains some excellent articles on timely
subjects. Elsewhere we, reproduce an
editorial from The Independent touch-
ing phonetic spelling.
ITEMS ON THE WING.
In the future when special delivery
boys of the P. O. D. resign they will be
‘replaced hy substitute letter carriers.
| The white people of Georgia have re-
organized the Ku-Klux in order to sub-
due the colored people of the state. And
yet the negro will keep divided.
His holiness the Pope has decided in
future to appoint young men as Car-
dinals,
October 19, 1906, the G. A. R. will
celebrate its oth anniversary by general
celebrations.
Bro, Turner Montgomery, head waiter
at the National Hotel, was buried on the
16th by the Odd Fellows. Deceased was
very prominent in this jurisdiction. Rest
in peace.
Til, Bro. W. A. L. Morton, D.D... was
ordained March 13, 1906, by the 2nd Bap-
tist Church. He is a missionary of the
‘Mt. Rethel Baptist Association, D. C,
Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. “He
‘bas been ninning successful revivals in
these States: He also postesses some
of the qualifications of his father in the
minictry, viz., Rev. W. B. Johnson, D.D.
Commissioner McFarland is investi-
gating the practice in the police court
of taking personal bonds:
Officer Delany of the S. E. Section
has recovered from his accident and is
again on duty. Officer Delany is one
‘of the popular officers of the M. P. force.
SAILORS MAY HAVE STARVED IN
NATURAL PRISON.
Boat and Raft of Lost Steamer Valen-
cla and Eight Skeletons Found
In Gave on Pacific Coast—
Rock Barred Egress.
‘Victoria, B. C—A dispatch from
Carmanal respecting the finding of a
Ufeboat and a pontoon’ from the
steamer Valencia in caves with elght
skeletons bas been supplemented by a
later message from the lighthouse
keeper at Carmanah, which throws
further ght on the find’ He does not
Indicate where the cave ta located or
who has made the find, but his descrip-
tion of the situation indicates that
there Is a possibility that the skele-
tons are those of a band less fortunate
even than those who remained on the
Valencia and went down to certain
death. His Information gives rise to
the possibility that the eight persons
represented by the skeletons now dis-
covered were caught In a trap, sur-
rounded by bigh stone walls, and
there starved to death.
The cave in which the boat and the
skeletons were found ts described as
barred at the entrance by a large rock.
The passage on elther side of this
rock is far too narrow to permit of
the boat being taken out that way.
Apparently the boat got in by being
washed over the top of the obstruct-
{ng rock on the crest of a great
wave. Once behind the rock access
to the open sea was cut off, even when
the water subslded, as it was impos-
sible to get the boat past the barrier.
The prisoners were also walled in
from freedom on the land side and
‘must there have perished for lack of
‘food.
‘The boat Is not damaged except for
| small hole In the forward air cham-
‘ber near the gunwale, To take it out
vf Its place will require 3 strong force
of men. The light keeper says: “I am
too shorthanded here to do any-
thing.” . |
The cave is apparent'y a gathering.
place of debris, as the lighthouse keep.
er says that in order to make an at,
tempt at identifying the skeletons it
would be neecssary to remove several
tons of rubbish which had since ac}
cumulated, and with that accom}
pilshed something might be found|
within the cave which would give al
clue as to the identity of the unfor}
tunate refugees who perished Jn the}
prison.
The Indians, it is reported, knew of;
the presence of the boat and bodies
for several months, but kept it secrot.
In the absence of knowledge of the
source of the Information it Is pre-
sumed that It came from the Indians.
Capt. Gaudin's personal opinion 1s
that the story will prove a false one.
He inclines to the bellef that it has
originated with the Indians, but will
have the matter fully investigated.
Capt, Gaudin points out that {t fs un-
reasanable to suppose that a boat
would be dashed over a rock such as
ts described as barring the entrance
of the cave and sustain practically no
Injury. This feature of the story,
Capt. Gaudin thinks, throws a very
strong susp{clon on fts rellabliity. He
farther thinks {t unlikely that in the
patrol of the coast which took place
Immediately after the wreck occurred,
such a spot as described should escape
eae 5
May Unset President's Reform.”
Washington—The discovery has
been made by a Washington lawyer, It
Is sald, that the action of President
Roosevelt’ in putting Into effect the
simplified spelling may be in violation
of a law that was passed by congress
some years ago. It Is sald that about
25 years ago congress passed a joint
resolution, which was approved by the
president, making Webster's Un-
abridged dictionary the standard for
government spelling, and that the law
has never been repealed. It Is also
stated that there Is on record a de
cision of the United States supreme
court affirming the resolution.
Cats Mourn; Turn Black.
Steubenville, O.—Two cats owned
by Hiram Jennings went Into mourn-
ing following the death of thelr mas-
ter the other day. Jennings was found
dead ip an oat fleld after eating a
‘hearty meal, and by his side were the
pet cats, both white. They followed
his body to the graye, and upon thelr
return to the house It was noticed
that they were rapidly changing to a
deep black. Within three days the
felines were In deep mourning. They
have refused to eat, and spend the
night walling most pathetically in the
‘Sante ward.
+ Life Created by Frenchman?
Paris—Prof. Lidue, of, a medical
school at Nantes, claims to have cre-
ated vegetable life. He bas been er-
perlmenting for ten years and he
eventually discovered that with what
he described as “osmotic pressure,”
which animates inorganic matter when
dissolved to a liquid, it 1s possible to
produce a substance Identical with
ving tssues. He gradually created
artificial cells, which lived and repro
duced. From these he claims be pro
duced growing plants three and four
inches long. *
Krupp Girls Are Frugal.
/ Berlia.—Frau Krupp, widow of the
gonmaker of Essen, and her daugh-
ters, Bertha and Barbara, have just
‘been here, the object of thelr visit be-
tng to buy the daughters’ trousseaux.
Notwithstanding their immense wealth
not more than $250 was spent for each
outfit. ~
EDGRAY OR BLACK HEIR
By Mrs. Arabella V. Chase, author of Or She Keg Her Word, etc.
Zella expressed her disappointment in having to miss the excursion trip and requested Edgray to tell them all about it. "Who went? What was the principal amusement?" And before he could answer Zella's questions Pearl added more.
"Who was the most becomingly dressed lady? How many times did you dance and with whom? What time did you return and did you go home with Ruby or some other girls?"
Edgray was forced to laugh wwhen his sister stopped to get a rest.
However his responses to every question was satisfactory except two. He said that had a vote been taken it would have unanimously been in favor of Miss Myra Thom, and that he did not go home with his sister Ruby, but at her earnest solicitation he escorted Miss Thom home.
"That's just like Ruby, because she and Myra are chums she wants you to do everything to suit her. O, well, we know Myra is a good girl, and she should look upon you as she does her younger brother; she is many years your senior."
"You cane directly from Myra's home here, did you not?" asked Pearl.
"Well let us go and fix your brother a bite to eat, for he must be hungry." said Zella.
The two were not long in arranging for Edgray. Zella returned for him. He emphasized the fact that he appreciated what the young ladies had placed on the table before he arose from it.
He offered to assist in clearing the table, but his offer was not accepted. A game of whist was plained, provided a fourth person could be produced.
Dixma Ovalton, Zella's paternal uncle, made no secret of the fact that he had always loved Pearl Jones, and that she was to be his wife. He said that she was his choice and the only way he had to make it known, was by constantly telling her and his friends also.
So there was no trouble in completing the set for the game—Zella and Edgray, Pearl and Dixma.
Dixma was only waiting for Pearl to name the day. He was junior partner in a large store on West Hope street.
The evening was, very plea-antly spent and just as Edgray announced that the time for his departure had arrived, footsteps were heard and Pearl recognized them as those of her father. She opened the door, remembering that Edgray had broken the bell. Mr. Jones explained that he had been to a meeting at the church and was not far away; he was anxious to know how Mrs. Ovalton was feeling and if Pearl had any message to send or request to make of the folks at home.
After a chat, Mr. Jones, and Edgray left for their home, and Mr. Jones just hinted to Edgray his wishes along matrimonial lines. Zella, Pearl and Dixma did not remain in the sitting room long after Edgray had left. After telling Zella to be sege to call him or her uncle provest if her mother became restless during the night, he went to his room.
The two girls soon followed his example. The room they occupied opened into that of Mrs. Ovalton, and the girls gently drew their bed from its place, as near the door as possible so that the least call made by the sick woman would be heard. Zella did not want to disturb her mother so she had to wait until she moved so that she could take her medicine. Neither could the two young ladies talk above a whisper, and they were eager to unbloom themselves to each other. Pearl wanted to explain to Zella how hard Ruby was trying to force Myra Thom on her brother Ergray, Zella was almost wild to know if Edgray had preferred, previous to her return from school, the company of Myra to that of the other girls. Zella gave the medicine to her mother as soon as she moved on her bed, and the two girls were soon sleeping soundly.
It is doubtful if Mrs. Ovalton had called, which she did not, whether either Zella or Pearl would have heard her. Ruby and her mother were waiting for Mr. Jones and Edgray to return. Ruby had explained to her mother how she had requested Edgray to go home with Myra. It was only to her mother that she could tell the secret of why she made the request. "We all know," she went on to say, "that Edgray cares only for Zella and I was so proud of the knowledge that I can't find words to express my feelings.
-
"I want to open the eyes of Provost Lerkel. He admires Myra but has not the courage to tell her, so she and I decided to force him to the point of 'showing his hand.' so we fell upon the plan of throwing Edgray with her as much as possible without doing any harm to Zella Ovalton.
"Provost would not even go on the excursion, because he said it was more important to see to his business and that Myra would be alright if I were going. I really believe he thinks more of his business than he does of Myra."
Mrs. Jones felt better after Rubyy's explanation, but she condemned Ruby for making a tool of her boy.
Edgray did not have a great deal to say after getting home. The home folks laughed heartily when he told of his nervousness and how he jerked Zella's door bell with force enough to break the wire.
Mrs. Jones suggested that besides having the door bell fixed, he should go the next day and fake Zella and Pearl out for a drive.
She said she was going to see Mrs. Ovalton and would remain while they were out driving.
This suggestion suited Edgray, for he wanted to talk to his mother about the habit Ruby was cultivating of forcing him on Myra Thom, whenever an opportunity presented itself.
Edgray retired to his room leaving the other members of the family in the library. He was worried over something of more importance than horses. Early next morning Edgray went to see how the work on his establishment was progressing. He noticed that a house which was being built on the adjoining lot was nearer completion than his stable and yet it was the last of the two started. He had never asked questions about the house and did Jbkhtiu HAkon'ydwamaly anan g hz-coltsegofo. unxtrexalst
not know to whom it belonged. The workmen were putting on the finishing touches when Edgray entered. The foreman said he did not know who was to occupy the house, but that he had heard that the parties were immensely rich. "But," said Edgray, "they cannot be very rich, there is no stable on the place." "I doesn't know nuthin' 'bout that part, but I does, know we git our pay regular," said the foreman.
When Mr. Goodman saw how grand the stable for Edgray was to be he and his wife decided to build another home, which was to be more costly than the one in which they were living, except there was to be no stable on the premises. There six horses would be put to board in Edgray's new stable, and the old coachman was to be transferred to the same place.
"Shall we hire our present home when we move in the new house?" asked Mrs. Goodman.
"No, it can remain idle for a time, then if Edgray marries to please his father, and I hope he will, it shall be a home for him, into which he may take his bride. Of course his father will furnish it, and Edgray shall live in it with the privilege of buying it on easy terms."
"Do you think Edgray will ever be able to pay the value of it?"
"Now my dear wife you must not ask so man's questions. You named the amount of money you wanted and I gave it to you without one question. Now we are going into a much finer home, in fact the finest home any where in the South, and this new home is to be yours, so do not worry about the old one, for it is mine to give or sell."
The old residence was to be a present to Edgray provided he married the girl his father had selected.
According to arrangements Edgray was ready with the carriage, and in a short time Mrs. Jones was at the bedside of her sick friend. Mrs. Ovalton was much improved and the girls were soon ready for the drive.
Zella had no choice to suggest so Pearl asked her brother to take them to the meadow east of the reservoir, for she wanted some grass and seed which only could be gotten there.
It was a long drive and the horses were glad when they were stopped under the shade of a great oak tree which stood as a land mark.
"Now you two need not get out," said Pearl," I shall get all I need right around the carriage."
Whether Pearl found what she wanted or not neither of the occupants of the carriage knew, for Pearl would pull some grass and then throw it down pretending that all the seed fell out.
The ruse of Pearl's worked well and she succeeded in getting out of hearing of the carriage.
HORSE HAS PROPERTY
OWNS FINE GRASS PLOT IN FASHIONABLE NEIGHBORHOOD.
Equine Holds Interest in Valuable New York Real Estate Where He Can Graze at Will and Live Life of Ease.
New York.—"My horse Dick I give and bequeath to my sisters, Agnes and Elizabeth Savage. It is my wish that they care for the horse as long as he lives."
As the result of the above provision contained in-the will of George Savage, a plumber of Jersey City, who died on Sept. 17, 1889, Dick, a horse 33 years old, is living a life of ease and luxury. He is a property owner and holds a half interest in real estate.
Dick came into the possession of his master as a colt back in the '70s and for years he made daily tours of Jersey City in the shafts of a plumber's wagon. Mr. Savage was deeply attached to the animal, which developed unusual intelligence at an early age. He bought five lots at Baldwin avenue and Clifton place as Dick's exclusive pasture. As the years rolled by he disposed of three of the lots, but he reserved two for the horse's especial benefit.
"He's a good old boy," the plumber would often say, "and I don't propose that he shall ever want for a small portion of this earth where he can graze at will."
After the plumber's death his sisters placed a wire fence around Dick's lots and saw to it that every morning excepting in the winter he was led from his stable in the rear of their home at 518 Mercer street to his pasture.
Fine homes were built around the lots, which are within a stone's throw of the city hospital and the zealous eyes of many real estate speculators were turned to Dick's exclusive territory, but all overtures for the sale of the lots were turned down by the Misses Savage and the old horse grazes in supreme contentment. A few days ago the sisters were offered a good price for the lots, but they said that the land will not be in the market as long as Dick lives.
Dick raps with his forehoofs against the side of his stall every morning at six o'clock as a signal that he is ready for his breakfast. As soon as he gets it one of the sisters, Miss Elizabeth Savage, grooms him and washes him down with oil of citronella to keep the mosquitoes away.
Edna Brown, 13 years old, has become so attached to the old horse as a neighbor that she goes around every morning to see him safe in his lots and in the evening leads him back to his stall.
ALCOHOL LAW NOT ORIGINAL.
American Consuls Report on Denaturing Process Abroad.
Washington.—In view of the recent law of congress permitting the use of alcohol in the arts and industries free of tax the bureau of manufacturers of the department of commerce and labor has collated a number of reports of United States consulates on the denaturing processes, from which it appears that a similar law is in operation in Italy, France, Germany, Cuba, Belgium and other countries. Each of the countries named has its own particular process of denaturation.
Of particular interest is the report of Consul General Robert P. Skinner, of Marsellles, who says that the last word in regard to the industrial uses of alcohol has not yet been said nor does he anticipate that American expectations in regard to the general practicability of this fuel as a motive force are going to be at once realized. So imperfect does the French government regard the methods now in use for rendering alcohol unfit for consumption or of utilizing it as an illuminant that prizes have been offered to the person offering the most advantageous ideas on the subject. Nevertheless, the reports in the aggregate recognize the possibilities of denatured alcohol based on the trials already given it abroad.
West Indian. Blacks Cannot Stand Panama. Sanitation Rules.
Washington. — Perfect sanitation and cleanliness are proving fatal to the West Indian negroes employed on the Panama canal. Although Col. Corgas and his assistants have banished yellow fever and other tropical fevers, which made the canal zone one large burying ground for the French canal builders, they have found that sanitary precautions taken in the quarters occupied by workmen make the Jamaican negroes especially susceptible to pneumonia and other throat and lung troubles.
West Indians are not accustomed to an abundance of fresh air and well-ventilated, cleanly quarters. Living for generations in small huts, where large families crowd into rooms tightly closed against the night air, the negroes from Jamala and other tropical islands have developed lungs with cramped capacity and especially susceptible to changes and temperature. West Indian laborers cannot be induced to eat sufficient wholesome food to keep them in good health.
LOT FARMS IN BERLIN
UPWARD OF 1,000 OF THEM NOW IN CULTIVATION.
Started in 1900 with 94—Miniature Country Houses That Have Become the Scene of Healthy Activity and Innocent Pleasure.
New York.—The visitor to the German capital who is not satisfied with the beaten track of the guide book and the average sightseer may at this season of the year find in Charlottenburg or any of the outlying districts of the city a spectacle not only unusual and picturesque, but delightful from a sociological standpoint.
One comes across tracts of land slightly below the street level which are green with regular rows of vegetables or brilliant with beds of flowers. At one end of each garden plot is a simple little hut or a latticed arbor covered with vines. Men are busy with spades, women with rakes, children with sprinkling cans. Or they sit about a home-made table in the shade and sip their coffee and consume—as every genuine Berliner does—enormous quantities of cake. There is an air of contentment about the scene which is doubly refreshing after the sight of the bustling crowds, loaded with lunch baskets, that plod along the hot and dusty roads toward the beer gardens of the Grunewald. These people have no need to seek the open; they enjoy an outing on ground which is theirs.
A number of societies which have at heart the health and the welfare of the people are the founders of the philanthropy which offers the workingman living with his family in a stuffy tenement a plot of ground, easy of access, where he can rest from indoor work by a little gardening. They took the cue from an exhibit at the Paris exposition of 1900, where the Ligue Francaise du Colin de Terre et du Foyer demonstrated the work of 60 corporations that have given to French laborers plots of ground where these people grow their own supply of vegetables and in doing so improve their physical well being and add to the few and simple joys of their life. The German societies leased two tracts of unimproved land near a workingmen's district of Charlotten-
View of the Vacant Lot Farms.
burg, subdivided them into 94 plots, and raffled them off among those who applied for them, families with many children being first considered. In the center of every garden plot was a playground for the little ones.
The societies started the work of preparing the ground and even furnished fertilizers and seeds. This being done, the plots were taken over and dared for by the families to whose share they had fallen. The enthusiasm and perseverance with which these city dwellers entered upon their farming was surprising.
Instead of crowding into a train or a tram bound for the pleasure resorts in the suburbs, those people place their youngest child their tools and their lunch basket in the baby's carriage and set out early in the morning to spend their holiday in their own garden. There father and mother work or rest, and the children play in the open until late in the evening, when one can see processes of them returning to their city flats.
Nor is it only on holidays that they resort to their gardens. As soon as the warm weather has set in, the wives so there early in the afternoon, the children follow after school hours and the father joins the family on coming from his work. The principal meal of the family being taken at noon, it is quite possible for the family of a Berlin workingman owning such a garden to spend from five, to seven hours daily in the open. When not busy caring for their potatoes, cabbages, cucumbers and other vegetables, the mothers sit in the shade of the arbors sewing, while the children romp about.
There is a spirit of emulation among the people which is encouraged by the patrons, who at an annual harvest feast view the results attained and join in the general merrymaking. It is their aim not only to promote the physical well being of the people, but to foster a feeling of neighborliness To strengthen this spirit of solidarity and prevent an estrangement among the plot neighbors during the long winter, there is at least one meeting of a social nature on the grounds in the cold season.
This enterprise is hardly five years old, but the 94 plots originally given to the people in Charlottenburg have become upward of 1,100 in various parts of Berlin. Extraordinary reasons must prevail if any owner decides to give up his plot. When one of those rare cases occurs, there are hundreds of applicants eager to fill the vacancy. The people cling to the bit of ground as if it were a valuable old family place.
PREACHER HAS THRIVING COLONY IN DOMINION.
Animals Are Very Industrious and
•Have No Use for Lazy Members
of the Flexible Belt Ribs
Duxbow, Sask—On the farm of Rev. W. E. Christmas, a few miles from this town, exists one of the few beaver farms of Canada. Within the limit of the farm are five large dams, peopled by some 200 beavers. The banks of the Souris river, which runs through the farm, are fringed with poplar trees, supplying the beavers with the best of building material, and also with daily bread. According to a law passed in 1896 it is illegal to kill beavers until the fall of 1908, consequently this colony is waxing strong and multiplying rapidly. Having been protected from the trappers for the past ten years, the beavers are becoming very tame, and do not seem to mind a casual onlooker, although they do most of their work by moonlight.
One night these beavers cut down 52 trees, according to Rev. Mr. Christmas, who takes a great deal of interest in his little tenants, and watches carefully to see that no harm comes to them. These beavers are very industrious and have no use for one of their number who refuses to do his share of the work. When such a member of the flock is noticed the others drive him away to live in solitude as a bachelor."
It takes the beavers only a short time to fell a large sized tree, and they are able to throw it in any direction. When once felled the tree is quickly up into lengths for house, dam; or food, as may be required. The house of the beaver is built on the bank of the river, with its entrance under water. Once having built the entrance the rest of the house is started, the whole colony working at the house until it is finished, and when it is completed it is warm, dry and cozy.
A beaver family usually consists of four or five, and comes into the world with its eyes wide open. The young ones live with their parents, for two years, and then they are ready to shift for themselves. The full grown beaver measures about two feet in length, with a tail some ten inches long, which he can use as a spade or trowel, as well as a paddle. The average age is 15 years, although some have been known to live to be 20. When the animal is nine years of age its pelt is at its prime, and will fetch from $10 to $12 in Minneapolis.
WANTS TO WED ONCE MORE.
Rich Old Farmer Who Has Had Four Wives Seeks a Fifth.
Monterey, Ind.-Daniel Overmeyer, of this town, has been in consultation with his attorney, M. M. Hathaway, of Winamac, as to filing proceedings for a divorce against Mrs. Mildred Smith Overmeyer, of Noblesville, upon the ground of abandonment and desertion. This aged Romeo has been married four times, twice divorced and separated by death from two wives. He told his attorneys as soon as he was free again he was going to Argos, north of this place, and probably would marry a widow, the mother of five children, by the name of Laura Heckthorne. If he failed to bring the widow to terms he was soiling to South Bend and accept a proposition from a young woman of that place.
Mr. Overmeyer is about 75 years old, owner of a fine farm, the father of 11 children. To each child, upon its marriage, he gave $0 forres of land, $700 and a team of horses. His present wife was the daughter of former Mayor Smith, of Nobleville, and Overmeyer says she was never intended for a farmer's wife.
He says newspaper advertising—"Wanted, a wife"—brings scores of letters from women, begging to be some man's wife, but that choosing a wife is like trading horses—you don't know what you have until you "get stuck in the bargain."
New Benjamin Franklin Arises in the Keystone State.
Brunt Cabin, Pa.—William Kronenberg, an eccentric scientist living in the mountains near here, is making experiments with a new variety of tree that he calls the electric light plant. Noticing the phosphorescent light he found around decayed tree stumps, he conceived the idea of using it for the benefit of mankind. Taking an ordinary wild grapevine at several stumps, he was gratified after several years' culture to see the fruit emit a rich white glow.
Mr. Kronenberg has one plant which gives off sufficient light to read by, and he is wiring his log cabin with the grapevine. He says that if he can develop the electric light plant sufficiently it will come into general use on account of its cheapness and safety.
To Teach Fillpoins Farming.
Washington—W. A. Sutherland, of the bureau of Insular affairs, who has charge of the Filipino students being educated in this country at the government expense, left Washington the other day for New Orleans. He will make arrangements there to place agricultural students in positions where they may acquire knowledge of methods used in growing sugar, tobacco, rice and other crops suited to the Philippine islands.
FIRST CHURCH BL
SMITT
Is Still Standing at K
When Erased by the
Now Used by Laws-
Saints
Kirtland, O.—The
Mormonism is still
land, O. If the
little cemetery ne
they would tell how
zealot gave his land
his all to provide fur-
ing of the temple
It was in 1830 that in Kirtland, and with was a social revolu which Ohio had new bands left their w mothers deserted babes were placed The end came when compelled to flee The temple was an blind. "A storehouse of Smith called it w, and by 1834 cation was laid on or hills in imitat old. The, dimen by 125 feet. The feet in thicken
The temple s
it was when bu
is the main audi
walnut benches s
ralling. The door
locks or catches,
whoever is speak-
sure of holding hi
At each end of
elevated thrones.
the other, marks
worship used by the
Joseph Smith's rei
in the ceiling show
which were once us
to divide the floor
ments.
The floor above is
late looking. Abou
here indicate that it
of lecture hall, b
Smith curtains divi
ment just as below
Rollers fastened to the second floor, together of pulleys, enabled to raise or lower the first and second floor time. In the third stations running north or a number of separa The Reorganized the Christ of Latter Day S which worships in it tries to follow litera Mormon, which, be it its polygamy. The dwives was one of S tions." Yet this sect Smith, polygamy and
REWARD FOR KIND NECESS
Gets Nearly a Million b. W Does Not Want Noterely
Toledo, O.—Born to him when he forsaken him. S. C. J. C. Rhodes. S. C. Rhopes inherited three months and torley, she kept her profound secret and tenor of her way. She was busily enlist typewriter for her who was in need of the vacation season. Mr. Navarre left the had in Monroe trany took up a life of a heiicals on fine hunts grounds and leased the sportsmen. On their profitable investments died three months associated stocks and bor $1,000,000.
Mrs. Rhoades was
till she was married
acro. She is only a
old, very reticent a
She refused to turn-
bled and begged that
made of the news of
Americans Lead in S
Washington — Now
are bank deposits in
greater ratio than in 1911.
The French, justly for
economy and saving
easily outclassed by
reputed spendthrifts at
travagant people on
figures just at hand.
France from 1855 to 1911
increased from $152
000,000, or 218 per cent
States during the same
posits increased from $4,735,000,000, or 271
great increase is propo
to the prosperity of
United States rather th
growth of the habit of
Middletown, N. Y.—A
turtle arrived in a
post office here. A
mail bags had been
the clerk reached for
popped or and sniffed.
The clerk was biding
away the pile of
ered the turtle. It w
pounds and was very
pling at everything in
run of the post office
utes until a negro por-
its back and got a rope.
There was nothing to
had come from and the
know which bag it had
FCBERS BURied IN
SE COLORADO.
Taken from Express
by Bandits Among
Rivers near Cripple Creek—
Secret of Cache Lost.
Somewhere along
railroad which con-
cords and Florence,
fortune in golden
tracks and boulders
in gold, and it is
it will never be
lucky hunter by
cache where is
of 1893 the money
safe of an express
robbers. All
dead, and there
the hiding place of
wealth. The last of
was a man by the name
Varks. On the day which he set to
the treasure he died at his
Creek from pneu-
villa Varks and one other robber
men who knew the hid-
the money. They carried
bags into the hills along
road tracks near the scene of
and hurled it under the
water while their four confederatees
the men and express messen-
has with their rifles.
The robbers planned to allow the men to remain hidden for several days, that there could be no chance either being discovered in passing it. After the hirdup the six men separated going to different parts of the city. Marks and the man who had mistaken him in burying the gold retained in Cripple Creek together, which feared the other and they snuck each other like hawks to guard against any attempt to obtain the money. After two years had shaped Marks had become a real estate man and a lawyer. The other man died a year after the hold-up.
The story of the hidden treasure is told by Mayor F. L. Baldwin, of this city who obtained it from a half-breed Indian named Clark, while he was in Cripple Creek in 1897. No living person knew what had become of the money 50,000 at the time Mayor Baldwin obtained the story but Clark.
The robbers had selected the year of 1897 to search the money and divide it. They were all to meet in Cripple Creek on May 25, when Marks and the other man who knew the hiding place were to get the gold and there to be a division. None of the robbers arrived at the meeting point on day selected. Days passed into night and weeks into month, and the robbers did not arrive.
Marks was the only living man who was the hiding place and he knew the age of the other men had obeyed the money. He felt that he was being watched by the other four men constantly and he lived in constant terror for months. He believed that the other men must be dead, and October he decided that he would get the fortune himself. He needed someone to help him carry the bed and he told his story to Clark, who was a prospector at that time, referring the important details and implying a general idea of the location of the hidden wealth. A clay was appointed. The men knew me at the cabin of Marks, who lived some early one morning. When the morning came with it came light of snow. Marks feared that her would be followed and could beacked in the snow. He would not present to take the chance. His limbs tucked with terror when he, seemed neat to obtaining the fortune which had been buried for four years. Clark carried his terror as most abject. He thought that every man who looked him and was a stranger was one of his robber confederates in the city.
Another day was set when Marks and Clark were to go to the cache and take the money. It was destined that the robber was not to reap the reward of his four years' vigil over the house for the night before the day he arrested Marks was found in his fire dead. Shortly after Marks' death Clark had the story to Mayor Baldwin, who was at that time in Cripple Creek published as an attorney and enjoying the enjoyment of the early mining trip with the death of Marks also accused and the secret of the hiding face of the money, for he left no mark no papers of any kind by which the fortune could be located, and the stolen from the express safe 13 years ago lies buried among the walls of the Florence & Cripple Creek ransom.
Beard Is Eight Feet Long.
Overseeing a Light Feet Long.
Overseeing a W. L. Gulles, of this page, the years of age, and it is his proud belief that a razor has notOCKED in 20 years. During this time his whiskers have contended and to-day they are a three over eight feet in length, about three over his remarkable hirsute dormition, lying on the ground when he has been unfurled. The whiskers have occasion him little indulgence as he keeps them done in under his chin except for occasions. As they are plinned him at home and the whiskers intricate and difficult lets his whiskers down in own home circle, not because he isn't proud of the distinc-but for the simple reason, but for the simple reason, not acquired the knack his whiskers neatly back again.
LAKE OF QUICKSILVER FOUND.
Value of Mexican Product Estimated at Many Millions.
Mexico City, Mex.—A lake of quicksilver, covering an area more than three acres, and having a depth ranging from 10 to 50 feet, has been discovered in the mountains of the state of Vera Cruz. The value of the product is estimated at many millions of dollars.
The news of this discovery was brought to this city by C. A. Bungl, a reputable mining man, who declares he was suffering from mercurial poisoning from having spent much time investigating the extent of the lake and coming in contact with the quicksilver. He went to Santa Rosalia springs, in the state of Chihuahua, where he took a course of treatment for his ailment. He returned to Mexico City several days ago fully restored in health.
Mr. Bungl interested F. Langerwall, a wealthy iron manufacturer of Sweden, who is now in Mexico on business, and J. B. Feelin, of New York, who accompanied Bungl to the state of Vera Cruz and proved the truth of his discovery.
This lake of quicksilver has been known to the Indians of that locality for many generations. It is situated far up in the mountains, in an almost inaccessible position. Its surface is partly covered by stones. It is believed that volcanic action in the mountains above smelted the quicksilver out of the clinnabar ore, and that it ran down and filled this depression.
Langerwall and Feelin have agreed to provide the capital for the operation of the rich find. A tunnel will be driven through, the base of the mountain and the quicksilver will be brought down by means of gravity.
SILENT FOR DOZEN YEARS.
Man Able to Talk Makes Odd Record
in an Almmaheuse.
York, Pa.—Silvert for 12 years, never having been known to utter a word during all that time, is the record of Jerome Wills, an inmate of the county almshouse. Wills is 60 years old, and is the son of a man who is said to have been one of the richest in Adams county. Wills has full power of speech, and is apparently sound mentally, yet for 12 years he has held his tongue.
He was admitted to the almshouse 20 years ago, and showed no disinclination to talk until after he had been in the institution about seven years, when it was noticed that he was becoming taciturn and noncommunicative. Then he stopped talking altogether. Efforts to get him to talk made by stewards, attendants and physicians have repeatedly failed.
Wills spends his time in strolling along the corridors or sitting on a bench. His head is always bowed, as though he were in deep study.
When his fellow inmates address him or physicians or attendants speak to him he receives their salutations in silence. When approached by visitors he will retreat to his room and close the door after him.
BOY WITH WANDERLUST.
Returns Home After 2,400 Miles of Travel by Freight Trains.
Lampasas, Tex.—Eugene Roberts, a 13-year-old boy of this place, has returned home after a journey of more than 2,400 miles, most of which was made on freight trains. A few weeks ago he disappeared from home, and was next heard from at Austin, where he was attending the military maneuvers of troops. He remained there until the New Mexico national guard departed for home, and accompanied them to Bernallillo, where he was put off the train and told to shift for himself.
He stayed at Bernallillo a day or two, and then caught a freight train for Albuquerque. The train crew treated him kindly, and he reached Albuquerque in good shape. From Albuquerque he went to El Paso, where he told his story to the police, and was given food and lodging. He remained at El Paso only a short time, and then started for Lampasas by way of Fort, Worth.
It was a long trip through the dust and heat of western Texas, but he reached here safe and sound, full of his wonderful experiences.
AUTO HELPS FALSE HAIR TRADE
Suppression of Convents in France Diminishes Supply Considerably.
Paris.—According to the Eclair, at the human hair market, held annually at Llmorges, this year's offerings were worth $200,000. One dealer alone on the first day of the sale purchased $4,800 worth. The average price per kilogramme was $17. Young girls in the districts where travelers for hair dealers make their rounds are perfectly well aware of the value of their hair and no longer exchange it for a fuchu or a boa or two or three meters of muslin.
The increase in the demand is explained by the fact that fashionable women wear more false hair than formerly. This is due to the development of automobilling and the suppression of hats in theaters.
One chief cause of the diminution of the supply is the suppression of the convents. These were one of the main sources of supply. There is, however, no danger of a hair famine, as Italy could furnish much more hair than it does at present, and China and the East furnish an inexhaustible field.
TO ERECT MONUMENT
$10,000 MEMORIAL TO POCAHON-
TAS IS PLANNED.
Will Be Dedicated at Opening of Jamestown Exposition—Movement Begun by Descendants of Little Indian Maiden.
Washington.—Pocahontas is to have a monument. Her descendants—including all relatives of the twb Harrisons, who have been presidents, Gouverneur Morris, the gifted writer; Mrs. Burton Harrison and the large and important Randolph, Cabel and Falfrax families of Virginia, not to mention many less well-known people in New England and other portions of the United States—have decided that the little Indian maiden deserves this recognition and have organized to raise $10,000 to that end.
The monument, which will be dedicated when the Jamestown exhibition opens, will take the form of a simple Indian maiden dressed as Capt. John Smith describes Pocahontas and will be made by one of the great sculptors. On the tablets of the pedestal will be portrayed the principal events in which this plucky child played an heroic part.
Membership in the Pocahontas memorial association costs $1 and is open to "all patriotic Americans." To be inscribed upon the rolls one needs only the send the fee to Miss Mary Desha (of this city) and receive the handsome membership card bearing the picture of Pocahontas herewil reproduced.
One hundred and fifty descendants of Pocahontas have joined the society within the past few weeks.
Charles C. Grover, president the Riggs national bank, Washington, who is himself of Pocahontas line, lends solidity to the undertaking by acting as treasurer of the fund.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe in April, 1614, and it is through the daughter of this marriage that the
POÇAHONTAS.
(From a Portrait Painted in 1616 in England.)
"Descendants of Pocahontas" base their claim to fame as a first family. The story of how the life of Capt. John Smith was saved by this Indian girl is familiar to everybody.
After Smith salled away to England Pocahontas was for several years never once seen at Jamestown. Then she was suddenly brought in a prisoner by Smith's successor, who had captured her (by barter of a copper kettle), to hold as permanent hostage for the future good behavior of her father. The scheme was successful, and during the four remaining years of Powhatan's life absolute peace reigned for the first time in the Virginia colony. Pocahontas meanwhile was kindly treated in captivity, and at the suggestion of her new friends, took the name of Rebecca as a substitute for her Indian title.
When the Indian girl had been at the colony something less than a year she was betrothed to John Rolfe, a prosperous trader of good English family, who appears to have married her more from religious enthusiasm and political ambition than from love. As for Pocahontas, her consent to the marriage was obtained only after she had been told that her hero, Smith, was dead. Powhatan heartily approved of the alliance. Doubtless his avaricious soul gloated greatly over the increased possibility of blankets and grindstones.
For two years after the marriage the young couple were in Jamestown, Rolfe pursalug his planting (he was the first white man to cultivate tobacco for commercial purposes)—and his bride acquiring, with true Indian quickness, the ways of English women. That she must have done this to very good purpose is plain from the fact that when, in 1616, her husband took her to England for a visit, her behavior, even in court circles, was all that could be desired.
Matoaks is believed to have been the family name of Pocahontas, and many of her descendants today wear it proudly.
What Rain Will Do.
In parts of Australia where the average yearly rainfall is not more than 10 inches, a square mile of land will support only eight or nine sheep. In the Argentine Republic, South America, the same area, with 34 inches of rain, supports 2,500 sheep.
Professional Bird Catcher.
A professional bird-catcher is employed in Berlin, who keeps scientific and educational institutions supplied with birds' nests, and eggs, and he is the only man the empire permitted to do so.
Gen. Williams Points Out Necessity for Increase.
Washington.—Conditions existing at this time call for an increase in the pay of the officers of the army, says Brig. Gen. Constant Williams, commanding the department of the Colorado, in his annual report.
He asserts that the increased cost of living since 1872, when the present rate of pay was fixed; the frequent changes of stations, sending officers to Alaska and island possessions, necessating the keeping of two separate establishments in many cases, work a hardship especially on line officers.
Years ago changes of station were infrequent, and officers had opportunity to save. Gen. Williams says that now the changes come so often and with such little warning, that debts are caused which might otherwise be avoided by the careful officer.
He renews his recommendation of last year that officers' quarters be heated and lighted without expense to occupants, as are other public buildings.
Barbers' supplies may soon be furnished to soldiers at cost by the government. Brig. Gen. Constant Williams, in his annual report, recommends that articles needed for the proper care of the face shall be added to the list that may be purchased from the army storehouses. Among the articles mentioned are listerine, talcum powder, witch hazel, razors, shaving brushes and cups. He thinks also that soldiers should have the privilege of buying thread and needles at cost.
BIG APPLE CROP IN KANSAS.
Yield This Year In Some Cases Will Be 70 Per Cent.
Kansas City, Mo.—Francis Goble, one of the most prominent horticulturists in the country, recently returned from an extensive trip through southern Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee, and is very enthusiastic about the crop prospects in these regions. He says the corn and hay prospects were never better and the cotton crop in the South is splendid.
In speaking of the Kansas apple crop Mr. Goble, who with ex-Gov. E. N. Morrill, owns a mammoth 880-acre orchard in Wyandotte county, said: "As to the apple crop in this section, I think I am safe in estimating it at 50 per cent. of a crop. Owing to favorable conditions, the crop on the Morrill-Goble orchard will average about 70 per cent."
The work of picking the apples is not such a big task as most people would imagine. It is expected that 45 men will pick and barrel 250 barrels of apples a day. Old soldiers are employed quite often at this work. Pickers usually get from $1.40 to $1.50 a day and are supposed to pick 40 bushels a day. The apples are handled very carefully and the men work on step-ladders and put the fruit as gathered into bags slung to their shoulders.
CRIPPLE CURED BY DREAM.
Nightmare Results In Restoration of
Dislocated Hip.
Marion, Ind.—A dream terminated with unusual reality in the case of George Gilpin, who has been a cripple for many years. Gilpin suffered a dislocation of the hip joint a number of years ago. Surgeons were unable to join the dislocated parts properly and he has been compelled to walk with crutches since the accident. The injured leg became shortened as the result of the accident and he could not walk without the aid of crutches.
Wednesday night Gilpin had a dream. He imagined that a number of men attacked him and in self-defense he struck with both hands and kicked with both feet. When he awoke he was greatly surprised to learn that he was using his right leg. Then he attempted to walk and was delighted to learn that he could. He was about the streets during the day and his friends could hardly be made to believe his story of the dream.
Surgeons say the only explanation of the queer recovery is that while Mr. Gilpin was asleep the muscles and tendons became relaxed and when the violent exercise brought about by the dream occurred the dislocated hip joint dropped back into place.
CRIME ALARMS NEGRO LEADER
Booker Washington Says Lawlessness of Black Is Pronounced
Atlanta, Ga.—"Making all allowances for mistakes, injustice and the influence of racial pride, I have no hesitation in saying that one of the elements in our present situation that gives me most concern is the large number of crimes that are being committed by members of our race. The negro is committing too much crime, north and south," said Booker T. Washington in an address to the National Negro Business league. "We cannot be too frank or too strong in discussing the harm that the committing of crime is doing to our race," he continued. "Let us stand up straight and speak out and act in no uncertain terms in this direction. Let us do our part and then let us call on the whites to do their part." Mr. Washington condemned lynching as one of the greatest hindrances to the progress of the black race. As illustrating the progress which the negro is making he said the blacks in Georgia owned at least $20,000,000 worth of taxable property. The south, he said, offered the best opportunities as the permanent abiding place of the masses of the race.
TO ABOLISH WRECKS
DEVICES INTENDED. TO MAKE RAILROAD TRAVEL SAFER.
Inventions Recently Patented by an Indiana Man Which Are Hoped to Do Away Entirely with Present Despatching System.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Elmer E. Stelner, of Knightstown, has just patented two devices invented by him which he hopes will prevent many railroad accidents and make travel on trains much safer than it is at present.
Stelner's devices do away with the present despatching system and put in its stead an automatic system. He worked for two years on his inventions, and he thinks he has succeeded. He says his system has the following advantages:
It does away with all possibility of rear or head-on collisions, as each train crew knows at any time just where all the others are.
It is security against any train running into an open switch, as the register on each train shows whether the switch be open or closed.
It does away with telegraph operators, thus saving millions in salaries to the companies using it.
The system "cannot go to sleep at the instrument or the switch" and can work 24 hours a day without food, fatigue or pay.
Being purely mechanical, it is infallible, and cannot make a mistake or "misinterpret orders," and even if it could disaster would be impossible.
It does away with the necessity of making stops for any purpose except to take on or discharge passengers or freight.
"With the train reporting system," said Steiner, "a railroad may be equipped at regular intervals of any distance desired with stations in the track bed, each of these stations being connected by circuits of electric wires with the central office. Whenever a train passes over one of the stations it automatically registers the number of the train and the number of the station, so that the central despatcher can tell at any moment just where any train is.
"In addition, every switch on the line is equipped with stations, and the minute a train enters a sliding the despatcher will be notified by it by the automatic register of the number of the train. A switch is always registered open or closed, and if one is inadvertently left open the register will show it, and an approaching train can be advised of it from the central office."
With the intercommunicating system—his second device—attached, there is nothing left to be desired in a system of train despatching. By means of this system the central despatcher may communicate order to an engineer, conductor or train crew, either while the train is standing still or moving, and in the same manner the crew can answer the orders. The system is so arranged that each train makes a constant circuit with the central office, and each train is constantly in a circuit with every other train on the same division. Thus one train crew can communicate with any other crew, and the register on one train will show just where every other train on the road is at any given time. An engineer can look at the register and tell lorg before he reaches it if a switch which the train is approaching is open or closed, and he knows at a glance just how far ahead or behind him is, any other train, in whatever direction it may be going.
The system would do away entirely with telegraph operators at way stations, so far as delivering and receiving orders are concerned. It would even be possible for trains to run under this system without a despatcher, as each train would know at any time where other trains were located. This, of course, would be impracticable, as it would give free rein to train crews to run too much at will.
Power for the system is furnished by either storage batteries or dynamos. Once installed the system would be inexpensive, as the first cost would be the greatest. It is adaptable to electric roads as well as to steam railroads.
Steiner, who is a rural mail-carrier, first began to think of his invention two years ago when he heard railroad men on a train discuss the problem of railroad accidents and their prevention. He then resolved to use his mechanical talent and ability in that direction, and he hopes that he will soon see the results of his labor in general use.
Increase In Regulaf Army.
Increase in Regular Army.
Washington.-The enlisted strength of the army is slightly increased in a general order issued at the war department. The strength of the different branches of the service will be as follows: Total number of enlisted men in cavalry, 12,240; artillery corps, 328; coast artillery, 12,298, and topeo companies, 527; field artillery, 4,012; infantry, 24,460; engineers, 1,282; additional strength, 1,961, making a total enlistment in the line of the army of 58,128. To this is added for the staff departments 4,387, making a total of 62,515. The increase provides enough men so that each cavalry and infantry regiment may have a detachment of machine-gun experts.
He Was a Relic Hunter.
A man who was arrested for breaking into a house in Berlin made the excuse that he only wanted a pair of shoes belonging to a celebrated Russian pianist who was staying in the house. A collection of women's shoes, all neatly labeled and catalogued, was found in the room where he lived.
SCENTR BURIED TREASURE.
Man Finds Mark of Vessel That May Have Held Gold.
Fort Worth, Tex.—While looking over his pasture in Reed county Mr. Dillard, who lives near Thorp Springs, was attracted by a mound of fresh earth. Upon investigation it was discovered that a hole had been dug and at the bottom was the imprint of some kind of a vessel that had been removed.
The place is particularly marked, the excavation being in the center of four roughly hewn stones, set in a square and sunk almost out of sight in the earth. A short distance from this square is another stone with a hatchet sketched on its surface, the edge of the hatchet blade pointing directly to the place where the excavation was made.
Mr. Dillard says he had often noticed the stones, but supposed they were simply an old landmark. The supposition is that the vessel contained money and the find may be connected with an old story that has been told in that section ever since it was first settled.
This story is that in the country between Comanche peak and Robinson creek a large quantity of gold had been buried by parties who on their return from the goldfields of California were attacked and killed by the Indians then infesting the country.
MONOPOLIES HIT BY DECISION.
Judge at Milwaukee Finds for Case Company in "Stacker" Suit.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Judge Seaman administered a blow to monopolies in restraint of trade in his decision the other day in favor of the J. I. Case company in the "wind stacker" case. The suit was brought by the Indiana Manufacturing company to recover royalties on a patent stacker. All thrashing machine makers have been compelled to pay royalties to the Indiana concern, which owns 200 patents. The Case company some time ago invented a stacker of its own and declined to continue the royalties. Judge Seaman, in his decision, confined himself to the claim that the contract with the Indiana concern was in violation of the Sherman law. He held that the grant of a patent created a lawful monopoly, and continued:
"Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that the monopoly thus secured, to be immune from the anti-trust act, must be referable solely to the invention under the patent, and that a combination of licenses formed thereunder may create a monopoly which exceeds the legitimate scope of the patent privilege."
Millionaire Who Kept Accounts in Head Leaves Queer Tangle.
Webster City, Ia.—Since the death of George Wells, the eccentric Iowa millionaire, at his home in Grundy Center it develops that many of the business houses at Wellsburg, the thriving German town in Grundy county named after the millionaire, are built on lots for which the owners have no deeds except that which comes from verbal agreement and the fact of occupancy in peaceful possession for a number of years.
It appears that Mr. Wells had a great habit of deferring action in many of his deals, trades and transactions, that he disposed of lots, gave the buyer possession and stated that he would make a deed some day, being too busy to attend to the trivial work of executing the deed.
Mr. Wells carried his books in his head, so to speak, and many of his old-time friends took his word for many things, expecting, of course, to receive the deed in time, but realizing after the old man's death that they had no title to their property. A number of legal actions will be the outcome of the matter.
DETROIT HAS ARMLESS DOQ.
Canine Freak Looks and Acts More Like a Kangaroo.
Detroit, Mich.-Mrs. Ettie Rowe, who lives on Randolph street, has a curiosity in the shape of an "armilee" dog. Gertie, as the dog is named, although Mrs. Rowe generally calls her "Baby," is a little more than two years old, and is one of litter of five, two of which were born with no fore leg. The mate died of distemper in her youthful days, but Gertie is as healthy as any dog can be and more paltry than most of the canine species. She is continually on the romp, hopping around on her hind legs like a hangeroo. When she is in a real big hurry she tries to run like the other dog, and goes bumping along on her hind legs and breast in a most comical manner.
Gertie's mother was a pup, and her sire a terrier, but the terrier predominates in her disposition as well as her appearance. She was exhibited last fall at the Fenton and Pontiac fairs, and brought her qowner a $250. She is said to be the only freak of the kind in the country.
Kansas Town to Be Moved.
Kansas town
Topeka, Kan.-Ora J. Gould, founder of Englewood, Chicago has begun the work of moving the town of Englewood, Clark county, one mile south of its present location. The Kansas town is in the center of Gould's 210,000-acre ranch and the quarter section on which it is located has a clouded title. It has a population of 450, and the new site of 240 acres is a gift of Mr. Gould, whose home is at Burlington, Iowa
LEGAL NOTICES.
THOMAS WALKER, ATTORNEY.
In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
No. 25479, Equity Doc. 58
Rebecca S. Nichols versus John Harrison Nichols, et al.
The object of this suit is to have partition, by sale, of lots seven (7) and eight (8), in the subdivision of John Henry Nicola's farm, Brightwood, District of Columbia, being a part of a tract of land called Peters' Mill Seat said property being bounded on the 14th Street Road, and the land belonging to A. White and that of Dr Charles Stone, said lots being more fully and accurately described in the plat of the aforesaid subdivision by B D. Carpenter, surveyor, dated July 13. A D., 1892; and the said subdivision being further described as the tract of land conveyed by deed dated August 31st, A. D., 1892, by Walter M. Moreland, et al., to John H. Nichols, said deed being fully recorded in Liber 1803 at folio 88, of the Land Records of the District of Columbia.
On motion of the complainant, it is this 18th day of September, 1906, ordered that the defendants, John Harri-on Nichols, Catherine Nichols, Howard E. Nichols, Nellie Nichols, Clarence H. Nichols, Adelaide Nichols, Effe J. Curry, Curry, Lulu R. Fernandez and Mary Nichols cause their cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in the case of default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, and The Washington Bee before said day.
Harry M. Clabaugh, Chief Justice. True Copy. Test:
J. R. Young, Clerk.
G. J. Latimer, Assistant Clerk.
ON TO WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION.
Washington, D. C., 1906.
Dear Brethren,
Greeting—I take the liberty to greet you to call your attention to the approaching Annual Session of the National Negro Baptist Evangelical Convention of America, to be held October 23 to 28, 1906, at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, 708 O street, N. W., Washington, D. C., Rev. P. W. Drew, D.D., Ph.D., pastor.
1. We anticipate a large gathering of the Brotherhood with happy greetings from every State in the Union, by some of the best brain., the best speakers, the best workers of the race from a religious and educational standpoint.
2. Because the convention was organized and received its first welcome in Washington, the Capital of the Nation, from the American greatest President, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt; and we always like to visit the place that gave us birth.
3. This convention was founded by the call of Dr. Drew, one of the greatest colored evangelists of the age, who is the founder and pastor of the great Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, and who had on foot a project to build one of the largest negro churches in the United States, with a seating capacity of 3,000 people. He has raised and banked nearly $3,000 towards its erection. His present church membership is 2,000.
4. A few of the great pulpit orator that will be heard are Rev. Geo. E Morris, D.D., President of the Baptist Convention of the State of New Jersey; educational sermon, Rev. A. M. Lewis, D.D., pastor of the great Metropolitan Baptist Church, of Pensa.; doctrinal Rev. W. M. Davenport. President of Eastern Shore College, Va.; temperance, Rev. Wm. Perry, D.D., pastor of St. Paul's Church, of N. J.; missionary, Rev. W. W. Wines, Jr., of Va.; Introductory sermon; Addresses by Seutator S. G. Newsome, of N. C.; Hon. Giles B. Jackson, of Virginia, Director; General of Negro Exhibit; and Rev. R. B. Robinson, D.D., President of Negro Christian Congress of America.
5. Therefore we appeal to all Christian workers and extend a cordial invitation to them to come and join the Convention and help save the world for Christ by sending missionaries to Africa. Send your contribution to Rev Solomon Pollard, Treasurer of the Foreign Mission. All churches and societies are requested to elect delegates. Board and lodging will be furnished free to delegates only.
Don't forget the Watch-word, $5,000 United Grand Rally. Sunday, October 21 and 28. For information call or address, Simon P. W. Drew, President, 2014 8th street, N. W., Washington. E. N. McNaniels, Corresponding Secretary. THE AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL Te Afro-American Council will meet in New York city October 9, 10, and 11 of next month. It will be one of the largest gatherings of representative colored men that has ever assembled in this country. The meeting will be held in St. Mark's M. E. Church, 53d street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. Everybody should attend.
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New Orleans, Sept.—Within two hours after Supernumerary Patrolman Authority Scott had fatally shot a colored man he was promoted to the position of regular, and at the same time warmly complimented on his good marksman ship by Police Inspector, Whitaker, who promised him further advancement in he kept up the good work. And yet we won't unite.
Read The Bee.
Lewis Horton of Winston-Salem, N. C., is 115 years old.
Recent events have demonstrated the necessity of the negro forming a unit. But we are sorry to say, when Freemasonry cannot cement the negro, nothing under the heavens will ever accomplish the same. It is only a question of time in some sections of the U. S. that the negro will receive the same treatment that the Jew is receiving in Russia. All the white-folks of the U. S. are not negrophobia fanatics like in the Bloody South. Today rebels receive better treatment from this government than loyal union soldiers. (N. B—We predicted just what happened in Georgia last week.)
For light upon dark subject read The Washington Bee. The only negro paper that that isn't afraid to talk.
Mrs. Ricks, who died in New York last Saturday, was brought to this city and buried from the home of her sister Mrs. Lancaster, in Acken street. N I Dr. Corrothers preached the funeral service.
Chester, Pa., Priest Punches Up the Lagging Eligible Couples.
Chester, Pa.—Rev. M. G. Scully, of St. Charles church, at Kellyville, called the attention of the younger members of his congregation to the great falling off in marriages recently in the parish.
He referred to the fact that under his personal observation there are from 50 to 60 marriageable couples, and he urged them to give the subject careful and earnest consideration. Otherwise it would not be long before St. Charles' parish "would be composed very largely of old maids and bachelors."
Since the first of the year, he said, there had only been four marriages, and there must be something radically wrong under the circumstances.
The hints of Father Scully created quite a flurry among the young men and maldens of the parish, and there is every indication that there will be work for the popular priest to do at the marriage altar.
Sewer Good After 53 Years.
New Albany, Ind.-By reviving an old water works system that was constructed 53 years ago at Byrneville, a village 15 miles northwest of this city, the citizens of that town contemplate the establishment of a new system. The old stone pipes that were placed more than half a century ago were burled deep in the ground and recent investigation has shown that they are as good as new. A supply of water can be procured from a stream near by and the reconstruction of the old system, it is said, can be accomplished at a small cost.
Read The Bee.
CHINAWARE DEPARTMENT
h holder, special ... $ 75
de, special ... $ 1.98
pamp and Glove, center draft ... $ 3.65
and goose neck ... $ 2.02
ties of decoration ... $ 2.25
low blue decorations ... $ 3.15
s with gold lines ... $ 3.95
decorations, only ... $ 7.65
$10.00
decorations ... $13.50
$15.00
ware—blue decorations ... $18.00
China—floral order ... $20.00
China—3 patterns ... $23.75
artificial Haviland China ... $26.00
BINGTON CANDY KITCHEN,
Mme. Davis.
STAR
Received a Gives Luck to A.
N. W. A. A.
Monton The B.
FORD'S
HAIR POMADE
Formerly known as
"OZONIZED OX MARROW"
80
KINKY or CURLY HAIR that it can be put up in any style desired constants with its length.
Ford's Hair Pomade was formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" and is the only safe preparation known to us that makes hair or curly hair straight as anybody else will make the most stubborn, hard, kinky, or pliable and easy to comb. These results may be obtained from one treatment: 2 to 4 bottles are usually sufficient for a year. The only Hair Pomade that OZONIZED OX MARROW is known and prevents dandruff, relieves itching, stops the hair from falling out or breaking off, makes it grow and, by nourishing the roots, gives it new life and vigor. Being elegantly perfumed and harmless, it is a toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Hair Pomade that OZONIZED OX MARROW) has been made for old women since about 1852, and label "OZONIZED OX MARROW" was registered in the United States Patent Office, in 1857. In all that long period of time there has never been a bottle returned from the hundreds of thousands we sweet and effectively use. Long you keep it. Be sure to put Ford's hair pomade makes the hair STRAIGHT, SOFT and PLIABLE. Beware of imitations. Remember that Ford's, Hair Pomade ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") is put only in 50 cts. size, not only in Chicago and by us. The guarantee has been on each package. Refuse all others. Full directions with every bottle. Prices only 50 cts. Sold by drugstores and dealers. If your drugstores or dealers can not supply you, he can procure it from his jobber or wholesale dealer. If one bottle postpaid, or 51.5 cts. for three bottles, express paid. We pay postage and express charges to all points in U. S. A. When ordering send postal or express money order, and mention this paper. Write your name and address plainly to.
(None genuine without my signature)
Charlie Ford Post
70 Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL
Agents wanted everywhere.
THE ORIGINAL SCHOOL. Instruction by mail adapted to everyone. Recognized by courts and educators. Experienced and competent instructors. Takes spare time only. Three courses. Preparatory, Business, College. Prepares for practice. Will our compulsion and prospects in business students and graduates everywhere. Full particulars and special offer FREE. THE SPRAGGE COMMUNICATION SCHOOL OF LAW. 844 MARSHAL ROAD. DETROIT, MICH.
Asti Burgundy
- a excellent quality-well matured wine from Sonoma county, California. 5 years old. Of comparatively light body and exceptionally palatable. doz. qts. $.50'24 pts.
CHRISTIAN XANDER'S
Quality House 909 7th St. Phone 31 274
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EURNSTINE LOAN JFICE. gold and silver watches, diamonds, jewelry, guns, mechanical tools, ladies' and gent's wearing apparel. Old gold and silver bought. Unredeemed pledges for sale. sol Pennsylvania Ave, N. W.
MCAA
for everybody at lower
the lowest Don't be
received;
to us and investigate. Business
confidential. No one know
your transaction with
our furniture, pianos, or
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 sick
ness without extra charge.
METROPOLITAN LOAN AND
TRUST CO.
505 E. St., N. W.
LOANS.
From $10 up to $200 loane
furniture, pianos, horses, wagons,
ures, etc.
e have the largest business in the
v. Why? Because we grant ex-
ensions in case of sickness and give
you the benefit of our liberal reba-
tement if you pay up in advance.
We carry thousands of satisfied cus-
mers on our books. Call and in
estigate.
SURE LOAN COMPANY
Pam I. 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 be-
fore dealing elsewhere? We pay off
other companies and advance you more
money.
We also loan on plain note to sal-
arried employees, and make a specialty of
loans to TEACHERS.
POTOMAC GUARANTEE LOAN CO
928 F Street, N. W.
Teacher's College
The Teachers' College of Howard University, Washington, D. C.. offers the best courses of study for men and women desiring to become expert professional teachers of kindergartens, graded and industrial schools, high schools, normal schools and colleges. Special attention is called to correlated courses in manual training, mechanical and architectural drawing, domestic science, domestic art and music. Courses of two and four years lead to diploma and degree respectively. Special course if one year for college graduates. Tuition $10. Expenses small. Graduates assisted in securing positions.
For further information address Rev. L. B. Moore, Dean, Howard University, Washington, D. C.
E. MURRAY
REGULAR ONE DOLLAR CREAM AT 90 CENTS PER FALLON, CHURCHES, FAIRS STC. THESE PRICES GO INTO EFFECT ON AND AFTER APRIL 15th. E. Murray, 1216 You street, N. W. Wholesale and retail.
NOTICE
All butlers and boarding-house keepers are requested to file their names and addresses with the Columbia Ice and Coal Company on or before the first of October, 1906.
OLUMBIA ICE AND COAL CO. Fifth and K Sts. N. W.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
MEDICAL EPARTMENT
(Including Medical, Dental
WASHING F.
Thirty-ninth Annual Session will begin after
tinue eight months.
STUDENTS MATRICULATED FOR DAY
ONLY.
Four years' graded course in Medicine
Three years' graded course in Dental
Three years' graded course in Pharmacy.
Instruction is given by the didactic lectures, quiz-
practical laboratory demonstrations. Well equipped la-
departments: Unexcelled hospital facilities.
All students must register before October 12, 1907
For catalogue or other information, apply to
F. J. SH.
CREDIT FOR ALL WASHINGTON
CARL
Made, Laid and
Do you know that we guarantee
of Carpet we sell? And yet our
will find at any store. No wonder
son, and contains a wonderful var
good kind is here, and we invite
Credit and pay the bills in small
can best spare the money.
Peter
CARPET
e, Laid and Lined
now that we guarantee the wearing quality
we sell? And yet our prices are as low as
any store. No wonder we do big business.
Our stock is may
contains a wonderful variety of tasteful colors
here, and we invite you to select what
pay the bills in small weekly or monthly,
re the money.
Peter Groga
CARPETS Made, Laid and Lined Free
Do you know that we guarantee the wearing quality of Carpet we sell? And yet our prices are as low as will find at any store. No wonder we do big business Our stock is magnson, and contains a wonderful variety of tasteful col- good kind is here, and we invite you to select what Credit and pay the bills in small weekly or monthly can best spare the money.
Peter Grogan
Peter Grogan
817-819-821-823 Seventh Street.
SICK AND AC
ANCE UP TO $2
WHOLE LIFE
VERY LIBR
PAYABLE ONE HO
AMERICAN HOME, I
FIFTH and G Streets N.
Columbia Ice
FIFTH AND L. STS., N. W.,
WOOD AND COAL
OUR COAL IS CLEAN, AND
REDUCTION ON COAL
FILE YOUR NAME AND
DO THE REST.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILL-
AND ADDRESS AND TELL
WANT.
COLUMBIA COAL AN
SICK AND ACCIDENT INN
ANCE UP TO $25.00 PER W
WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE
VERY LIBERAL TERMS
PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH
AMERICAN HOME, LIFE INSURANCE CO.
FIFTH and G Streets N. W. Washington,
umbia Ice and Coal
AND LISTS... N. W., NEAR LIST
FOOD AND COAL UNDER CRAFT.
AL IS CLEAN, AND WE SELL CHE
ION ON COAL FOR CHURCHES.
OUR NAME AND ADDRESS, AND
REST.
PROMPTLY FILL-ED. LEAVE Y
PRESS AND TELL US THE KIND OF
UMBIA COAL AND ICE COMPANY
BARBERSHOP
SICK AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE UP TO $25.00 PER WEEK WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE ON VERY LIBERAL TERMS PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH AMERICAN HOME,LIFE INSURANCE CO. FIFTH and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C.
Columbia Ice and Coal Co.
Columbia Ice and Coal Co.
FIFTH AND LSTS.N.W. NEAR IST WOOD AND COAL UNDER CAVAL OUR COAL IS CLEAN. AND WE SELL CHEAP REDUCTION ON COAL FOR CHURCHES FILE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. AND W DO THE REST. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILL-ED. LEAVE YOUR AND ADDRESS AND TELL US THE KIND OF WANT. COLUMBIA COAL AND ICE COMPANY
DRUGS AT CUT PRICES. Lowest Prices In All Washington On High-Grade Drugs.
We can fill any prescription, no matter on whose blank it is written. Special Prices to Nurses; Physicians and Medical Students. Our Underselling Prices: 50c Nadinola Beauty Cream...39c 25c Ox Marrow Pomade
(makes curly hair straight)...19c
25c Barnard's Complexion
Cream .....14c
50c Pure Bay Rum, full pint...25c
25c Packer's Tar Soap.....15c
50c Liebig's Beef, Iron and
Wine, a grand tonic.....25c
25c Sozodont, Rubifoam or San-
itol .....17c
100 2-grain Quinine Pills, the
best .....18c
25c Lyon's Tooth Powder.....14c
50c Norwegian Cod Liver Oil.
full pint.....25c
25c Mennen's Talcum.....11c
25c Laxative Quinine Tablets..15c
25c Dr. Graham's Borated Tal-
cum, pound can.....15c
25c Seidlitz Powders, dozen in
a book.....25c
People's H
SEVENTH AND EYE ST
ple's Pharm SEVENTH AND EYE STREETS, NORTHWEST
PURE DRUGS
PETS
and Lined Free
the wearing quality
prices are as low as
we do big business
Our stock is mag-
riety of tasteful col-
you to select what
weekly or monthly
Grogan
Between H and I Stress
ACCIDENT INSURANCE
$25.00 PER WEEK
INSURANCE ON
ENERAL TERMS
OUR AFTER DEATH.
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
W. Washington, D. C.
e and Coal Co.
NEAR EST.
UNDER CO.
WE SELL CHEAP
FOR CHURCHES
ADDRESS, AND W
ED. LEAVE YOU
US THE KIND OF CO
ND ICE COMPANY
TABO LINES
15c Pure Epsom Salt
15c Pure Powdered A
25c Cuticura Soap, the
$1.00 Wine of Cool Lov
best medicine for wear
39c Bulb Syringes, warr
$1.00 Fountain Syringes
Para Rubber.....
50c Hand-Finished Coat
25c Massage Brushes
skins like velvet.....
$1.00 Rubber Gloves, g
teed .....
50c Atomizers for No
Throat .....
$1.50 Truss, fitted free
Free Deliver..... Phone
Pharmacy STREETS, NORTHWEST POPULAR PRICES