Washington Bee

VOL. XVI. NO. 26 SOME COLD FACTS. To Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the National Republican Committee— Sir: Sir: Since the reception of my last letter, your Chief left the United States tor Panama. He left soon after the election, didn't he? Was the shoe of New York too much for him? See retary Root's speech had no more effect on the voters of New York that the President's apology had on the Southern Democracy. I wonder if Mr. Root knows how small he is in the estimation of the American people! I have long since come to the conclusion that the National Republican Committee will not be dominated by your chief in 1908. Of course if there are any officeholders on the committee or men who hope to get an office, conditions may change. Mr. Cortelyou, there is no act that the President can do that will ever win the confidence of the American colored man. He has deceived him. He played the "Door of Hope" policy to perfection. You know I endeavored to convince the colored citizen that there was nothing to it. I could not, however, but today he knows for himself, and no power under the can can ever draw him again to your Chief. I give you this warning; unless the proper man is nominated for president the colored vote is lost to the Republican party. He will not support any candidate named by your President, because he will know that he will carry out the policy that is being inaugurated by this administration. You may thrust upon the colored people apologists and place them in office to control the colored vote, but it will fail. You must consult the representatives of the race and appoint representative men to office. The idea of you taking obscure men and placing them in secondary positions to influence the colored vote will not work. I have seen many political fares but this "door of hope" is the greatest force of the age. I am delighted. I am delighted, because the colored man was so easily fooled. He declared your Chief a god and called other people crazy because they refused to think as they did. The only people who believed in the President are the officeholders. The colored office-holder especially keeps his mouth closed as tight as a clam. I am informed that Prof. Booker Washington persuaded the President not to disband the three colored regiments. Why didn't he take Mr. Washington's advice? I suppose that he wanted to be different from anybody else. He may call it smart, but the American people call it foolish and childish. Are you aware that we have over eleven millions of colored people in the United States? Do you know that the day of political promises has passed? When such men as Tillman, Vardaman and "tom dickson" pass off the stage of action the South will bloom. My information is that the President in his message to Congress intends to deal with the colored citizen and justify his action in the dismissal of the colored troops. If the colored citizen thinks as I do, and I have no doubt that he does, it matters not what he says, because what he says will have as much truth in it as his "door of hope" policy. It is amusing when you think of it. The more I think of it the more I am inclined to smile. I congratulate Secretary Shaw, on his retirement from the Cabinet. No I congratulate Secretary Shaw, on his retirement from the Cabinet. No honorable man wants to go down with a sinking ship. Secretary Taft is moving the earth, so to speak, to convince the American people that he is a great man. He had better go on the United States Supreme Court bench. It would be healthier for him. There are only three men, if nominated, could be elected: Senator Foraker, Vice-President Fairbanks, and Secretary Shaw. Any one of these men would sweep the country. Any one of these men the colored voter will support. By the way, did you read the speech of Dr. W. Bishop Johnson? What did you think of it? Do you know that all colored men are thinking along those lines? You have no idea of the number of colored independent thinkers in this country now. I shall conclude this letter by advising you to watch "the signs of the times," and believe me to be Sincerely yours, The Editor. BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. The 10th-Street Baptist Church,S.W., corner of 10th and R streets, northwest, of which Dr. S. G. Lampkins is pastor, was crowded Monday night, the occasion being the celebration of the twenty-eighth anniversary, installation and collation to the officers of the Baptist Sunday School Union of the District of Columbia. The Union was organized in 1878 at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, and its representatives are from nearly all the Baptist Churches in the District. Many of the leading divines of the denomination were present. Scripture lesson was read by Dr. Matthews, pastor of the Bethlehem Baptist Church. The North East Sunday School Choir, lead by Mr. Cowell Davis, rendered excellent music. The programme was under the supervision of Prof. Charles B. Walker, of the Zion Baptist Church. Mr. C. N. Pryor, the District Missionary, led in prayer, after which a selection was rendered by the North East Baptist Sunday School. Prof. Charles B. Walker then introduced Mr. J. D. Pair, Secretary of the North Carolina State Baptist Sunday School Union, who addressed the Union on its wonderful success. Mr. Walker than briefly outlined the history of the Union and its work in rescuing our boys and girls, and in training the young men and women to be Sunday School teachers. He then introduced Mr. Perri W Frisby, who was re-elected for the fifth time to the presidency of the Union, who read a voluminous report, showing the financial condition and the necessity of establishing a Sunday School Department for the denomination in the District, and asking for the moral and financial support of the clergy in alleviating the lamentable condition of many of our boys and girls, and assist them to attend Sunday School. He advocated the establishing of missions in the alleys for that class of people who fail to send their children to any school. Thereafter Rev. S. G. Lampkins installed the following named officers: President, Perri W. Frisby. First Vice-President, Squire W. Garland. Second Vice-President, R. A. Grantlin. Financial Secretary, Mrs. C. G. Summers. Recording Secretary, Miss Mary E. Wilson. Corresponding Secretary, Miss Sarah V. Johnson. Treasurer, Rev. W. J. Howard. Critic, Mrs. Jennie Harris. Librarian, Charles B. Walker. Assistant Librarian, Miss Martha Donohoe. Musical Director, William Robinson. First Assistant Musical Director, Mr. Cowell Davis. Second Assistant Musical Director, Benjamin Washington. Statistician, Miss C. Williams. Censor, Miss B. Rose. Censor, Miss Alexine Kager. Auditor, F. Carter. Auditor, E. Fisher. Auditor, Miss Carrie Egelin. Quiz Master, James H. Smiler. First Assistant Quiz Master, A. J. B. Taylor. Second Assistant Quiz Master, John A. Miles. Editor, Miss Maria E. Hayse. Business Manager, James Devine. Assistant Business Manager, E. M. Payne. Chaplain, Joshua Tayler. Assistant Chaplain, Levi P. Brown. Missionary, Rev. C. N. Paror. Chairman of Committee on Ways and Means, Mrs. H. Lambert. Assistant Chairman of Committee on Ways and Means, Mrs. Rosetta Coleman. Rev. W. J. Howard, Treasurer of the Union, made brief remarks as to the remarkable advancement the Union had made under the present administration. Dr. Aquilla Sayles, of the Providence Church, made an address among other things he said he was proud of the work the Union is doing for fallen humanity. Dr. Leving, pastor of Enon Church, admonished the officers to continue in the cause of the good work. Dr. Norman, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, made brief remarks, congratulating the President and Officers upon the showing made, and for ten minutes held the audience spellbound with his classical oratory. Dr. Bannister also made brief remarks. Among those present were many members of President Frisby's Normal School, of the Third Baptist Church, where he has taught for fifteen years. The assemblage then retired to the banquet-room, under the supervision of fifteen newly appointed teachers of the 20th Street Baptist School, led by Miss Olive Tennyson and Mrs. Carrie Summers, Financial Secretary of the Union, and many others. The tables were in T-shape, upon which were all the delicacies of the season. The occasion marked an advanced epoch in Sunday school work of the denomination. READ THE BEE. What I Saw And Heard THE COLORED RACE J. H. SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ES TABROOK CHANCELLOR. I attended the meeting of the Citizens Committee at the Second Baptist Church last Monday evening. Chairman James L. Nevil, formerly of the Pension Office, and chairman of Citizenship Committee, is in Texas, and is, I believe chairman of the Committee on Publicity. He harangued about seventy-five people, fully thirty-five or fifty minutes, by reading a typewritten document purporting to be a magazine article entitled the "Ethological Cosidion of the Races," by Dr. W. E. Chancellor. It was amusing to see how he struggled through it. The words he could not pronounce he skipped over them to a letter that didn't have so many scientific words. Rev. Corrothers was the next speaker. He was full of similes and came to the conclusion that Mr. Nevil had struck a wire. He was followed by a Rev. Mr. Hurt, who pulled a typewritten manuscript out of his pocket and discourses about thirty minutes. He never said what the meeting was called for, but contented himself with the proud satisfaction of knowing that he had relieved his brain of a burden. After the reading of several SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ES notices, Rev. W. B. Johnson invited those present to the fair in the lecture-room below. The meeting was not quite warm enough to invite the participants to ice cream. Rev. Hunt boarded the New York Avenue car and went to his home. I attended the Bethel Literary last Tuesday evening and had a most delightful time. There were fully fifteen hundred people present. I see that Mr. Burke failed to put in his appearance. However, the people enjoyed the many speeches that were delivered. The opposition to Rev. Taylor are kept busy nowadays. They will be met with a cool reception at the final wind-up of the church troubles. It is amusing to see so many coming my way of thinking now. It would be more amusing to read what they said six years ago and compare it with what is said now. Six years ago I used to hear colored men declare that President Roosevelt was as great a man as Lincoln. Now they say that he worse than Jeff Davis or Benedict Arnold. MR. CHARLES W. FILLMORE. Articles of incorporation of the Equitable Fire Insurance Company, capital stock $100,000, with principal office in Chicago, have been filed with the Secretary of State for Illinois by Mr. Chas. W. Fillmore. This company will hand lerpinapcliknsr ? (!! 7890 $7890$. die principally the risks of colored people. Mr. Fillmore is well known in this country and possesses fine business qualities. He is a polished gentleman and very enterprising in business. More of this company and of Mr. Fillmore will be said is the near future. The West Washington district conference and V. C. E. and S. S. held a dames Etta Gardner, M. E. Pollard, very instructive session last week. Much business transacted. Rev. Logan Johnson, presiding elder, in the chair REGARDING THE COLORED PEOPLE FOR THE BEE BY WILLIAM ESTABROOK CHANCELLOR Superintendent of Schools, District of Columbia Columbia It may surprise the good people of the South that anyone could believe the race questions of the North are more difficult than the one great race question so much discussed by them. Yet this is just what I believe. I have no call or brief experience in dealing with these Northern race questions; and I have had at least some experience recently with the Southern race question since I came to Washington. To this date I am convinced that the Northern race questions regarding the Anglo-Saxons, the Irish, the Germans, the Scandinavians, the Russian Jews, the Italians, the Hollanders, and the Levantines are more serious than the Southern race question regarding the colored people. Of course, Southerners will immediately say, "This man has a deal to learn." I know that. I am just on the eve of departure to ES TABROOK CHANCELLOR. visit certain Southern schools for the colored people, in order that I may learn more. Even Northerners may say that the race question is not so simple as perhaps I, a Northerner, think. But it is not wise for either Northern or Southern people to be too sure that I am in total darkness regarding the race question. I was born in Southern Ohio, in a city whose population included thousands of colored people. My paternal grandparents were natives, respectively of Kentucky and Virginia. I was reared in the Southern traditions until I went to New England for my education. There I spent fifteen years; and, as every colored person well knows, there is no serious prejudice in New England against anyone because of color. During this period, as well as before and since, I visited frequently in the midland country, which is not exactly North or exactly South, where nearly all of my relatives live. I have always been disposed by family tradition to take colored people for granted as individuals each playing his own part in the life of America. I believe in dealing as nearly as I can with every man, woman and child on his or her personal merits; be they Germans or Dutch or Yankees, be they Baptists or Episcopalians or Catholics, be they red, white or brown. I have traveled pretty extensively, in nearly every State in the Union, and in nearly every country of Europe, and I cannot discover nationality or creed or color in minds or in souls. And I warn all men who claim to be thinkers not to be too quick with generalizations about the various human races, mixed or pure. Show me some quality supposed to be typical, characteristic, and peculiar in the negro, and I will match it in the Teuton or the Latin at once. He is musical, so is the German and so is the Italian. He is emotional, so is the Irishman. But I can produce negroes who are without musical talent and as cold as glaciers. Generalizations of this kind about races at best are suggestive; they are not universal truths. Of course, the negro must learn to work. So must everyone else. As Emerson said, until a man has a livelihood he has no right to look anyone else boldly in the face. But I have a notion that in the history of America the negro has done his share of work. Before the negro learns to work, however, he must have the free opportunity to work. This is the crux difficultatis. Here I stand on common ground with every negro agitator in America, because I stand on that ground for every soul in America. Work for decent wages is a human right. I might say a great deal on this line, for the negro race question is in some respects part and parcel of the two paramount economic questions,—the question of capital and labor and the question of land-ownership. I wish that every negro family owned a home. If the men of the negro race in the cities are not all steady workers, perhaps the cause of it is that they cannot get steady work at fair wages. If this is so, and I believe it is, then our American legislatures and the Congress should devise laws that will tend to increase the demand for labor at fair wages. Something has been said about an article written by myself six or seven years ago, I believe, on the race question. Nothing has been said about my much more recent remarks on the same question in the two published volumes of a ten-volume history of the United States that I am writing. I advise those who are searching my record to do it thoroughly. I have written a considerable number of books and altogether too many articles to be misunderstood; and I have no desire to escape this record; but I insist that I must be judged for the whole, not on single expressions. It is useless to try to represent me as an enemy of any class, color, creed or condition of my fellowmen. As a school superintendent in the North I have employed teachers of nearly every creed, of various nationalities, of various social classes, poor and rich, and in one instance a colored teacher in white classes for years. In this last instance the parents are extremely well pleased because this lady is an unusually good teacher. I am, however, not disposed to disturb the social conventions of this midland region, which is neither all Southern nor all Northern in its ideas. What I desire is the best possible white schools in Washington for white people and the best possible colored school for the colored people; and both systems to be the model schools of the land. I wish that the Congress maintained in the District not only High Schools for both races, but a complete free public university system, as do the Western States. I wish that every boy and girl in Washington could feel blessed in being so fortunate as to live here, with the best educational advantages in all Aemrica. Why not? Is not this the city set on the highest hill? I hope that this idea of having in Washington the standard schools of the country and the most complete will take hold upon the mind of every intelligent man and woman now only in Washington, but everywhere else in the United States. Here is the center government; here, also, therefore, should be the center of education upon which in a democracy depends the permanence of government. I know that The Bee is read by many citizens. Let me add one thing more: Colored men who write books and articles, who preach sermons, and who deliver addresses would do well to discuss themes of general interest and not to stick always to the one sore subject. There are millions of Americans who, like myself, read books and hear speeches for their content and style, because we wish to learn the truth; and the truth on any matter whether it be science or art, literature or religion, is absolutely pure, flawless, and colorless. Let us think of humanity more; and of all the divisions of humanity less. In the great panorama of history, nations, creeds, languages, races change and pass; but human nature endures and improves. It is our individual business to contribute to the improvement. REGISTER VERNON'S GOOD WORK Recently the Register has promoted three colored men in his office, one to a higher grade clerkship, one as chief messenger and a laborer to a messenger. In thus meting out justice to the few colored men in his office, so long left out in promotions, he has done more during the five months he has held office than his predecessor did during his term of eight years. This speaks well for the Register. May he right other wrongs long borne by the colored employees in his bureau. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS PARAGRAPHIC NEWS We really think that P. S. Twister in his Washington letter to the, Denver Statesman, a little twisted when he says that one teacher "has the clearest intellect of any colored woman now connected with the public school system." We have very many intelligent teachers. Mr. H. L. Taylor, one of the most prominent colored laboring men, has just been elected First General Vice-President of the International Laborers' Union of Dayton, Ohio. Sunday evening, November 11, Rev. Clair, of Asbury Church, filled the pulpit of the A. M. E. Zion Church of Rochfor the building fund of the church. ester, N. Y., the occasion being a rally. Rev. W. Blackwell preached at St. Mark's Mission, Philadelphia, last Sunday afternoon. Rev. Walter H. Brooks assisted in the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Second Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. Rev. Brooks was once the pastor of the church. Rev. Z. D. Lewis is now the pastor. Mrs. C. S. Taylor, a former student of Howard University, is making a record as stenographer out in Iowa. It is said that the late Mr. John J. Smith, of Boston, who died at the age of eighty-six, was the oldest colored Mason and Odd Fellow in the world. Mr. Harry Whitley is a attache on the Pullman running between this city and Texas. A nurse, Miss Grace Merrill, in a hospital at Dayton, Ohio, was bit on the arm by a colored patient, while she was trying to wash his mouth and now she is ill and not expected to live, bloo poison having set in. The street car service in Memphis, Tenn., was badly crippled by the recent flood. May be the "lims" will get drowned and the crows will fly a vav. According to the Tulsa Guide small-pox has broken ont at Tulsa, Ind.Ter. Sylvester Robinson, a mulatto of Kentucky, tried to commit suicide, by shooting, b cause of his color. The Texas Freeman in speaking of two conventions held recently in Houston said: "Neither of the two had moral stamina to take issue with President Roosevelt on the stand he has taken with the colored soldiers COLORED PEOPLE OF LYNCHBURG NOT SO BAD Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 17. If the public is to judge from recent newspaper articles, they evidently have concluded that the colored people of Lynchburg must be exceptionally bad. Such conclusion is untrue, misleading and unfair to the colored citizens of this grand old town. Such prominence gives us is the result of Rev. J. C. Jackson D.D., pastor of the Court Street Baptist Church, appearing before the white ministers conference and presenting his view of the status of the race in this city. As to whether Dr. Jackson was properly quoted by the newspaper reporters we are unable to say. If he was, he is a pessimist of the deepest hue. If he was not, the newspaper correspondents have done him and the colored people of this quiet city a great injustice. The relation race city a city is unusually good. The colored people are exceptionally intelligent, and are respected in every reasonable way by the white people. Of course there are a few questionable places frequented by a few questionable people, who are of character, but these exceptions by no means represent the thousands of hard and earnest working colored people of the Hill City. The Daily Press of Lynchburg has on many occasions spoken in the highest terms of our colored citizens, and now for this false alarm to be raised is cruel and unjust. The time has not come, and we are not expecting it, when the colored ministers of our city will feel it their duty to ask the white ministers to aid them in controlling their respective congregations. The police authorities are well prepared to look after the few lawbreakers of our city, and it is not necessary for the colored preachers to play the role of police, sheriff and detective in order to bring to justice those few who have no respect for law and order. Dr. Jackson did not represent the colored ministers of Lynchburg in any way when he appeared before the white ministers conference, as they had appointed no committee to do such. no committee to do Robert W. Goff, Pastor Rivermont Baptist Church. ROOMS_FOR RENT. Large, comfortable furnished hoops to reither ladies or gentlemen, 1207 K street northeast. Read The Bee. BUSINESSMEN AT YALE FACULTY AND STUDENTS TAKE TO COMMERCIALISM. University in Feeding, Lodging, Lighting and Department Store Enterprises—Activity of Students Varied and Profitable. New Haven, Conn.—The Yale students are resorting to many enterprises to supply at least additional money for college expenses. The Yale dining hall, outside of the dormitories themselves, was one of the first business enterprises started as a money making concern for the college. It now serves 1,000 persons at every meal and has a waiting list of 200. The Yale cooperative store sells everything from a pin to a pony. The college runs its own heating and lighting plant to the exclusion of outside corporations, and the dormitories house 3,000 men. Recently an order went forth from the college officials prohibiting the selling of light fixtures and student lamps on university property except at a store recently fitted for the purpose on the campus. The province of the popular dog wagon, or all night lunch, has recently been invaded by the opening of two lunch rooms for students, one on the academic campus and one at the Sheffield Scientific school. The enterprises conducted by the university through its faculty and corporation such as the dining hall, dormitories, lighting and heating plants, lunch rooms and cooperative store, are purely business propositions of little interest in themselves save as they represent the entrance of the modern commercial spirit into educational institutions and because the merchants protest against what they consider the usurpation of their field of trade. The entrance of the undergraduates into college commercialism is interesting because of the unusual nature of the occupations chosen and the way in which these enterprises supplement those chosen by the college authorities, the whole forming a commercial Yale which supplies the needs of educational Yale. Students conduct a suit pressing establishment, run a laundry, tutor other undergraduates and as agents represent mercantile houses, selling articles of every description. A daily newspaper and monthly magazines, scientific, medical, legal, literary and humorous, all conducted by students are well patronized and pay their backers handsomely. When the train rolled into the union station this fall bringing Yale men back to New Haven the returning students were accosted on the platform by two students who solicited the privilege of carrying the baggage of their Yale acquaintances to the campus. The pair had hired two express wagons at three dollars a day and secured nine-tenths of the student trade, much to the chagrin of the regular expressmen. Teams and licenses for the week cost $15, while the two took in more than $1,000. When this was divided both had enough to carry them through the college year. Another enterprise giving every promise of success is the Yale student laundry, started this fall. Two students take orders for laundry work, selling a ticket for a specified amount of work upon which they reap 20 per cent. profit when the money is turned over to the laundry concern for which they secure the orders. Upon other than cash orders they get 15 per cent. Since its inauguration this concern has proved far more satisfactory than the business places conducted for students by outside merchants. Work is more satisfactory and the prices are not so high. The proprietors do little more than drum up trade, attend to the financial end, and each reaps about $2,000 yearly by this outside venture. Among the minor ways of making money tutoring is considered by Yale men to pay best. Many Yale graduates have paid their entire way through college by this means. Among the agents, those selling typewriters, fountain pens and other merchandise receive from 25 to 35 per cent, while those soliciting magazine subscriptions receive from 30 to 35 per cent. Medical students and those in the Sheffield Scientific school must buy instruments or tools that that are costly. Rival firms pay as much as 40 per cent. commission to students who sell their classmates these necessities. Plans are in the air now for still furthering the commercial side of Yale by establishing a printing department. It is pointed out by those who are anxious to see such an enterprise started that an enormous amount of money is expended yearly by the university for printing catalogues, pamphlets, programmes, official reports, books written by the faculty members, athletic programs, class and year books, to say nothing of the dozen or more publications daily and periodical. Such a university printing establishment would furnish employment for many students who are coming to earn their way through Yale. HIS HOME IN PINE TREES. How a Massachusetts Carpenter Is Ovgrcoming Tuberculosis. New York.—Charles S. Batterby, a car- lor of Plainville, Mass, has built him- a house among the branches of two pine trees, and in it he lives that he regards as one of the most hygiene lives possible in this climate. Up there he is away from the damp of the evening and the early morning, fresh air is abundant and household cares and duties are few. That his idea has more than the usual virtues of a mere theory is shown by the fact that since dwelling among the pine tree boughs he has so far overcame a severe attack of tuberculosis that he is now able to work at his trade on outside jobs. Neither birds nor monkeys could be better pleased with their abode. He will live in his ```markdown ``` Where Battersby Is Fighting Tuberculosis. primitive house this winter, and, besides furnishing this object lesson of the value of open air treatment, he is constantly advocating the regimen to friends, acquaintances and visitors. About three years ago Mr. Battersby, then 24 years old, while working in a jewelry factory in Attleboro, caught a severe cold. The illness which followed, confined with his close confinement within doors all day, produced tuberculosis. On the advice of his physician he gave up work and lived outdoors. From the start he began to improve under these altered conditions. The idea of building a house in the trees was his own, however, though the doctor was quick to encourage him in it. The dwelling is 18 or 20 feet above the ground, resting among the branches of three trees, and having further support from a post. The floor measures eight feet by ten. It has a roof, and mosquito netting covers three sides with a canvas wall at one end. When he began to live in the trees Mr. Battersley was in a bad way. Hemorrhages kept him in a generally weak and exhausted state. Now he may be found hanging houses in the neighborhood of his healthful home. A few months more he thinks, will find him wholly of his malady, but even then he will hesitate to give up his cottage among the pine needles. His loss occupancy and the renewed health he has obtained has strongly attached him to his old establishment above the ground. NATIONAL LEADER OF W. C. T. U. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens Opens Annual Convention at Hartford, Conn. Hartford, Conn.—Mrs. Lillian M. Stevens, who opened the National Women's Christian Temperance union here recently, has been at the head of the organization since the death of Miss Frances Willard, in 1988. In 1984 she was elected vice president at large, and prior to that time she MRS. L. M. N. STEVENS. (President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.) had been assistant recording secretary 13 years and recording secretary one year. Mrs. Stevens is a native of Dover, Me., and began life as a school teacher. At 21 she was married, and went with her husband to his home near Portland. She first met Miss Wiffard in 1875, and materially assisted in organizing the Maine W. C. T. U. Besides her temperance work Mrs. Stevens is interested in promoting homes for the dependent classes. In the Cool of the Morning. A Spanish poet sings "The King of Spain has the blue dome of heaven for a hat." This doubtless obviates the necessity of his majesty borrowing the queen's shoe horn upon the morning following a royal bender.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Holland Stamps Export Meat. The Dutch government has brought in a bill providing that all meat for export from Holland shall bear an official stamp as a guarantee of quality. Any infraction of the law will entail severe, penalties. INDORSEWOOD PAVING FAILURES DUE TO POOR FOUNDATIONS, SAY EXPERTS. Experiments in Many Cities Being Watched with Great Interest—Precautions Urged Against Decay. Washington.—Despite the unfavorable experience of many cities, the bureau of forestry of the government maintains that paving blocks of wood make a very satisfactory and economical street if adequate foundations are laid and if proper precautions against decay are taken. The government forest experts say that life failures of the past have occurred because round cedar blocks were used, without precautions against decay and without a sufficiently strong foundation. The forestry bureau is now conducting an experiment which will go far toward deciding which woods are best. The progress of the experiment can be profitably watched by all cities in which street paving with wood is considered. An experimental pavement has just been laid in Minneapolis as a cooperative undertaking between the city government and the forest service. Different woods were used and all were treated with creosote. A publication of the bureau of forestry says of the experiment: The woods used were longleaf pine, Norway pine, tamarack, white birch, western larch and Washington fir. All blocks were laid with the grain vertical, and were four inches in depth, four inches wide, and from four to ten inches long. These blocks were impregnated with creosote and laid upon a foundation of Portland cement concrete. Successive sections of the pavement were laid in different woods. Also the angles of the courses were varied, one being at right angles to the traffic, another at 15 degrees, and a third between the two, or 67.4 degrees "This experimental pavement was laid on a street which carries the heaviest traffic of the city, so that comparative results can be obtained in as short a time as possible Traffic records will be made twice a month, on different days of the week, and from these records an accurate knowledge of traffic conditions may be obtained. "This investigation should furnish definite information on the following points: The suitability of the various woods, the relative value of heart wood and sawnwood, the best dimensions for the blocks, and the most serviceable angle for the courses." The government experts are positive in their belief that wood pavements have decided advantages. They say: Recent use of rectangular wooden blocks for street pavements has given excellent results. Many engineers believe that these blocks, when properly crossoved and laid on a concrete foundation, make a pavement which possesses high excellence in a greater number of essential qualities than any other now in use. Among these qualities are great smoothness, low traction resistance, minimum noise, and considering its smoothness, comparatively little slipperiness. Slipperiness has sometimes proved objectionable, but is not greater for wood than for sheet asphalt, all temperature conditions considered, and wood is much less, variable in this particular than is asphalt. It is probable that no other pavement with equally slight traction resistance will be found less slippery. Wood pavement is also easy to clean and to maintain, and when well laid gives promise of proving more durable than any other except one constructed of the hardest granite. "Two main causes have militated against a wider adoption of the crested block pavement: One, has been the prejudice which was engendered by the former experience with wood; the other is the rise in price of longleaf or Georgia pine, which is the wood now principally used. The forest service is making investigations to find out what woods are most suitable for use in paving, and whether less expensive woods could not be used to supplement the Georgia pine. The investigations have been upon three lines—to learn the present situation, to make tests of the suitability of various woods, and to lay experimental pavements and note their wear under actual traffic conditions." Canada's Population Increasing. Canada's Population Increasing. The census of 1901 showed the Canadian population to be 5,371,315, an increase of about half a million over 1891; a calculation based on a census of the northwest, the immigration returns and other official sources of information, estimates that since 1891 there has been a million increase in the population, a far larger growth than has been shown in any decadal census since confederation, in 1866, and one-fifth of the total growth of the Dominion during the whole of the nineteenth century. So They Laugh. The laughter of the different nations is said to vary greatly. The Italian laugh is languid but musical; the Germans laugh in a deliberate fashion. The French are spasmodic and uncertain, the upper-class English guarded and not always genuine, the lower-class English explosive, the Scottish of all classes hearty, and the Irish rollicking. The Chinese laugh is not so expressive as the European. It is usually a titter rather than a genuine outburst of merriment. TWONEWSUBMARINES CRAFT WHICH WILL REVOLUTIONIZE FUTURE SEA WARFARE. Will Make Junk Heaps of Battleships Worth Millions in a Few Seconds —Mightier Than Verne's Dream. Boston.—Within the past month there have been launched at Quincy two submarine torpedo boats whose completion marks the coming of a new and terrible epoch in modern warfare. These torpedo boats, the Octopus and the Cuttlefish, are the first of the new submarines upon which the United States government is experimenting at a cost of millions of dollars. Monster battleships, such as the great British Dreadnought and the American Louisiana and Connecticut, have been called "the last word in naval construction," but even now, although these "vessels have been in commission but a very short time, experts claim that within 18 months other battleships even more powerful will be put upon the ways. And, furthermore, these same experts say that the new type of torpedo boat that the government is building will be brought to such a state of perfection as to reduce such battleships to atoms with the greatest ease, so that within ten years these magnificent vessels will be fit for little more than junk heans. When the new era of warfare is fairly on us the domain of the sea will be sailed by the stoutest hearts that the world, will know. Then will come the time when the coward will find no place on a battleship. To the men who will sell these vessels, life will be held even lighter than the wherewithal to obtain the next meal. He will have to fight as no man has ever fought before. No modern sailor will complain of a stand-up fight, no matter how unequal, provided he can send back all the muffled fury that his ship contains. But plt him against the sneaking, unseen torpedo boat, where his life ```markdown ``` Submarine Boat Octopus. will be snuffed out without a second's warning, and he hates it with all the intensity of passion of his brave heart. But such in truth is 'the battle he will fight in the future, where neither searchlight, torpedo net, nor iron slides are of the slightest avail. Hidden under 30 feet of water the submarine boat can creep up to her monstrous antagonist, and can detonate a shell containing hundreds of pounds of can cotton under the very boilers of the ship without the least chance of suffering in turn. The explosion of this gun cotton will rip a mighty hole in the very vitals of the ship, and cold torrents of water will then pour upon the big boilers quivering with heat. Then will come a roar, in comparison to which the loudest crash of thunder would pale into insignificance. The boilers bursting in halves will rip the ship from stem to stern, while columns of steam and fluid tongues of flame will attest the fury incarnate that must find an outlet, and in finding it will uproot guns from their turrets and kill outright practically every man on the ship. These new torpedo boats which the government is building are nothing more nor less than steel shells about 60 feet long, built like a clear, with a fin along the middle, and a conning tower on the upper side. They are scarcely more than ten feet wide, but within this comparatively small space are stored away more than 20 tons of machinery and fittings. This apparatus consists of a gasoline engine which runs the boat while on the surface of the water, while electric power is drawn upon to move the propellers when she is traveling under sea. In the bow of the boat are two torpedo tubes—her only means of defense. One of these points straight ahead, while the other is tipped upward at an angle of 20 degrees, so that the boat may fire aerial torpedoes when necessary. The boat is made to dive under the surface by opening the air chambers in the bottom of her hull, thus allowing the water to flow in. The amount of water that is allowed to float into these compartments can be regulated so that, the boat may sink to any depth desired. All that is necessary to do to have her come to the surface is to pump the water from these compartments. These fragile little vessels are the result of the uniting experiments of great mechanical geniuses who have almost made a reality of the fantastic dreams of Jules Verne. They are the vessels of the future, and every nation has some of the sharpest minds within its realms working hard to make a boat that will be little short of perfection. Iowa Supreme Court Decides in Favor of Pretty Actress. Des Molnes, Ia.—Actresses who refuse to wear tights, models who are fickle about the style of their corsets, and baseball players who are given to jumping contracts are upheld by the Iowa supreme court in a decision handed down the other day, the opinion written by Justice Weaver. It is in the case of a corset company, against Helen C. Crosby, in which $10,000 is demanded because the pretty actress broke her contract to pose in the "curve" corsets at Sioux City, and went to wearing "straight fronts." The case reached the higher court, which said she was entirely right. Her objection to her contract was that the company insisted on an advance man whose reputation or character she did not know. In his opinion Justice Weaver takes occasion to lament the decision of another state, which enjoined Lillian Russell from appearing in one company because she had jumped her contract with another on the ground that the tights they required her to appear In were too cold Justice Weaver says that court's action was an "uncharitable conclusion." He also refers to the case of the Philadelphia baseball club against the far-famed Lajote who was compelled to bat home runs for Philadelphia though his heart was centered in the success of a rival team The supreme court in Iowa would be inclined to give him a free pass. In writing his opinion the justice goes into a lengthy dissertation on corsets, which discloses he has made a study of the question at bar THIS BRIDE SCORNS SCIENCE. Stops College Professor from Making Food Tests with Husband. Berkeley Cal—Prof. M. E. Jaffa, the nutrition expert of the University of California, has lost his star subject for nutrition experiments, and is inclined to blame Cupid altogether for the loss. E. M Tidd formerly an attache of the university, who won Jaffa's regard by the diligence and zeal with which he carried out Jaffa's directions regarding what food to eat and how to record the results, has deserted the cause of science. A bride in the Tidd household is responsible. The bride would have none of Prof. Jaffa's "messes" as her husband's food "He was the greatest subject I ever had" quoth Prof Jaffa, because he took a genuine interest in the experiments, and used intelligence in the work. He ate just the things that were and out for him, kept close watch on the results, and so his data was very useful." When Mrs. Tidd found that her husband ate the things that Prof Jaffa prescribed for him she declared that the programme must be changed. She was prepared to cook Mr. Tidd three excellent meals a day, including all the meat and potatoes and vegetables and fruit and bread that a healthy man needs. She could see no sense in Mr. Tidd's eating for Mr. Jaffa, in the interests of science, and so declared herself. Mr. Tidd gave up the programme. Tidd has resigned his place as university attache also, and now is enrolled on the list of policemen in Berkeley. ROOM FULL OF GIFTS TO QUEEN. Golden Caskets. Silver Trowels. Etc., Stored - Away in Palace. London.—King Edward is constantly presenting his queen with gifts, and her majesty never returns from a visit abroad without finding some beautiful piece of jewelry or silver or some object of art. The king's latest gift was purchased from the Austrian exhibition at Earl's Court. It consisted of a complete set of crystal ice cream dishes and large crystal goblets. The dishes and goblets have a narrow gold rim, and on each piece is the initial "A" in gold, surmounted by a crown. Gifts of this kind the queen makes a point of using at least several times a year, but "public" gifts are never seen or used at all. In a vast lumber room at Buckingham palace are golden caskets, silver trowels, presentation albums, pictures and hundreds of odds and ends connected with public functions. At Windsor castle, too, there are now two large rooms packed with goods of a certain value which will be eventually handed down to the prince of Wales. STEALS LIDS OF MANHOLES. Indiana Woman Introduces Innovation In Thleving. Indianapolis, Ind.—An innovation in the way of thieving is credited by the police to Rosa Josephs, a woman of 28, who has been sent to the workhouse for stealing lids from sewer manholes about the city's streets. It is charged that the woman stole four from the streets on the South Side, and it is suspected that more missing lids might be traced to her efforts in this line. The police were mystified by the first report of the thefts. The lids seemed to have taken wings. Finally Detectives Simon and Hauser were detailed on the case. They suspected that the lids might bring a fair price at a junk shop, and after calling at several shops located one. It was found that Mrs. Josephs had sold this lid, and others which she had sold were afterwards located. In all four were found. The lids are worth one dollar apiece, but were sold by the woman for 20 cents each. HEBREW FOR CABINET OSCAR L. STRAUS, FIRST OF HIS RACE TO HOLD HONOR Will Succeed Metcalf as Secretary of Commerce and Labor—Three of President's Family From Empire State. Washington. — President R. R. has announced his sel- L. Straus of New York. He for Secretary of Commis- bor. the appointment to the retirement of Secre- tor Attorney General Moody. the pointment of Mr. Straus. instance of a Hebrew made a member of the Cabinet. With this selection New three places in the office Secretary Root. Postmast Cortelyou, and Secretar from the Empire state The changes in the officially announced House, are: Secretary of the Treas. B. Cortelyou. Postmaster General— Meyer. Attorney General—Cha- parte. Secretary of the Navy and the Metcalf. Secretary of Commerce and Labor - Oscar L. Straus. The name of the successor to Mr. Meyer as Ambassador to Russia has not been disclosed, but it is considered likely that Lloyd C Grisman now Ambassador, will get the place. The general understanding for some time has been that Attorney General Moody will retire on the 1st of coming January, and that Secretary Shaw will follow him on the 1st March. On the first of the year therefore, Mr. Bonaparte who is now Secretary of the Navy will succeed Mr. Moody as Attorney General and he will in turn be succeeded by Mr. Metcalf, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, the latter's place, occupied by Mr. Straus. Mr. Grisman Postmaster General, will be M. (First Jewish Citizen to Become Member of President's Cabinet tary Shaw's place on the at which master W. Postmaster General The selection of M. S. was the United States M. Turkey during President first administration, can- iprise. He is a member of tribunal, a merchant, and He was born in Otterbark, Bavaria, Dec. 25, 1850, co United States in 1854 at Georgia until 1865 He grail Columbia university in 1871 free of M. A.; from the co school in 1873, with degree Brown university in 1875 D. Washington and Lee an L.L. D., and the Uni- sylvania. He is enga- tile life as a member of L. Straus & Sons, impi- tery and glassware Mr. Straus was appo- States Minister to Tur- dent Cleveland and serve- to ISS9, and was reappo- dent McKinley to the and served from 1858 to president of the New Y trade and transportation of the American ewish ll- cety, National Primary lea- ture a member of the executive co- mmittee of the national civil servi- sion and of the American Socia- cience association. He is a mem- of the International Law asso- lation and is the author of several works including "The Origin of the Repu- blican Form of Government in the United States," "Roger Williams the Pioneer of Religious Liberty in the United States," "The Development of Religious Liberty in the United States," and "Reform in the Consular Service." Alcohol in Bread There has been much discussion about the quantity of alcohol contained in ordinary bread as the result of the fermentative process. It is subjected before dentally the quantity is in Youth's Companion, but it would appear, then succeeded in accurate Now, however, it is D. O. Pohl, by an based upon the dish bread to be tested in a bread has ascertained that normally contains 90% of a alcohol for every gram, or a little more than seven per 10,000. It is well to be precise in small things. New Minister to Panama Began Life as Soldier—His Varied Service. — Herbert Goldsmith He newly appointed Ameri- lor to Panama, has had an career When a very young passed the highest military ever recorded in Wash- sorator Sherman afterward second lieutenant in an iment stationed out west. Whilst later Mr. Squilers ex- cuse Custer's famous Seventh which he remained until he army for a diplomatic ment was to Berlin, second secretary to the location. His next post when he was first sec- torist Conger and P. B. ERBERT G. SQUIERS. American Minister to Panama. work during the siege at which he received the the British government. was the first American while there, in Jan- he lost his oldest son, who met his death incidental shot fired by his whom he was prac- ture yard of the Squlers Mr. Spur has been twice married who was Mies Helen Fargo of Wilmington, who left four children. Some he married Miss Harriet of Sing Sing, N. Y. A few who are the engagement of Miss Fargo Squiers, the second who was announced to Harold Whitman son of Mr. and Mrs. Clar- r Whitman of New York. BULLDOG BOUGHT FOR $5,000. Gir. Gets Animal Who Has Taken Over 300 Prizes. New York - Mahomet, one of the best known buildings of, the present day, arrived here on the steamer Minnetonka recently. He was contigued to Miss L. De Groot, of this city, who it is said, paid $5,000 for him. This is the sum Richard Croker, paid for Rodney Stone, as was the amount George J. Gould paid for Hath Baronet. Mahomet's chief works in England have been M. Doctor and Moston Michaelson and British experts consider M. Groot's purchase the best of Mahomet is a heavyweight. The riddle son of Khalifa and the latter a daughter of $ 000 Bulldog Mahomet. Ronnie Stone Mahomet has the first and special prizes Britain. Bug Diet: Illuminated Eggs. N J - It is a pity the season is at an end, for seasons will not be able to truth of John Shaeffer's hat by feeding hens lightly can induce them to lay eggs. during the height of the bug season, gave two else to eat, and he deach day he got two eggs power strength. sling the eggs he has pre-strength, and he belleves glowing eggs are kept they will grow. be them red, blue or green that he could get as many pored lights, and most gets could be got by in festoons. that if lightning bugs are the lights large enough the lamps can be had. New Island. to report from Seward, it a new island has been bringing Sea by a submarine they say that vast quan- dure were thrown up which is of rugged headlands; waters of the sea were very at the island and the air at they were unable to ap- pare than to get a long t IS FREED BY CHANCE MURDERER LIBERATED THROUGH MAN WHO PROCURED HIS CONVICTION.* Spends 23 Years Behind Bars of Auburn (N. Y.) Prison—Met Justice Jenks, His Benefactor, by a Strange Accident. New York.—The circumstances that led to the release recently of Glusepe Guldici from life imprisonment in Auburn prison show what an important factor chance is in the career of some men. Twenty-four years ago a mere boy in intelligence and experience came to this country from Italy. Behind him he left his four-year-old sister, Anna, whom he promised to bring over as soon as he had made enough money. Three months later he was under sentence of death for the murder of a countryman whom he shot in a quarrel. He was first taken to Sing Sing, where his good-behavior and quiet demeanor won him the prais; and confidence of the prison officials, and in 1890 he was transferred to Auburn. For 20 years Guidici labored behind prison bars, utterly despairing that he would ever become a free man again. Last February, however, by strange chance, Justice Almet F. Jenks, of the appellate division of the supreme court, who in 1894, as assistant district attorney of King's county, conducted the prosecution of Guidici, met him in Auburn prison. The justice, in company with Justice Nathan L. Miller, had gone to Rochester to attend a banquet given to the justices of the appellate division, and was the guest of Justice Rich, who suggested a visit to the prison. It was Sunday, and the warden, in showing them around, chanced to call Guidici, who was near by, to bring him a key. When the convict returned, Justice Jenks, much - im- T. W. (Man Whom Chance Freed from Life Imprisonment.) pressed with the quiet demeanor of Guldici, made inquiries about him. When told the history of the man, the justice suddenly recalled, that he had conducted his prosecution, Questioning the warden still further, he learned that of all trustworthy and well behaved convicts in the prison, Guldici was the model. He had earned the confidence of the warden and the keepers, and for 11 years had been a trusty with the freedom of the entire prison. Justice Jenks was touched, and calling the prisoner to him, said: "Guldici, do you remember me? I was the district attorney who' sent you here." "No, sr.," replied the prisoner. "Would you like to be free?" continued the justice. "Yes, sr. I would," rejoined Guildic. "I am contented here; they treat me very well, but I would like to be free. I have been here so long: 22 years," and bowed with grief, the convict hung his head while tears rolled down his cheeks. Justice Jenks was much affected, and promised Guidiel that he would try to secure his pardon. From third day he, as well as Justice Miller, labored until they obtained a full pardon for Guidiel from Gov. Higgins. But the kind hearted Justices did not stop there. They wanted to make the man's future as secure as possible, and accordingly Guidiel has been sent to Cortlandt, N. Y., where Justice Miller has a farm. There work will be given Guidiel for the rest of his days. On his arrival in this city from Auburn, Guildici was looked after by Harry States, special officer of the appellate division, who at the expense of Justice Jenks took him to places of amusement and showed him the many changes that had taken place in the city in the past 23 years. He also spent much time in the Justice's chambers, where he has been shown marked attention and kindness. When Guildici was convicted he spoke no English, and was unable to read or write. To-day he is a different man. During his long confinement he studied a great deal and speaks English fluently and with intelligence. He is about 53 years old. To a reporter he said: "Yes, I am happy to be free. I was very kindly treated in the prison, but I'm glad to be out. More than once I despaired of ever being a free man, and now I am going to start life all over again. The crime that I committed in a moment of anger has been atoned for, and in the future I will do my best to balance the evil committed, but above all, I shall never forget Justices Jenks and Miller." Of his sister in Italy he said he had not heard since he went to prison, but he will try to find her and bring her to live with him. 6 This historic old vessel, once the pride of the American navy, and around which so many memories cling, is now being rebuilt by order of congress, and when completed will be identical with its former appearance and equipment. LIGHT ON BIBLE AGE FOUND IN RECENT DISCOVERIES AT GEZER. Many of the Statements of the Old Testament Scriptures Are Explained by Them—Back to Abraham's Time. London.—The romantic work of as certainting the light which modern exploration can throw upon the Palestine of the Biblical age and upon Old Testament narratives has added another volume to the library that has accumulated sinne these researches began in 1861. The new volume, "Bible Sidelights from the Mound of Gezer," is by the well known antiquary, R. A. Stewart Macallister, director of excavations for the Palastine exploration fund. The site of the ancient and buried city of Gezer was identified 36 years back, but its excavation is the most recent enterprise, begun in 1902 and brought down to last summer, when some glimpses of the results achieved were given at the annual meeting of the Palestine exploration fund. The present book is the forerunner and popular summary of the complete memoir now in preparation on a scale of considerable magnitude. The excavations have added 1,500 years to the early history of Gezer dating it back to 3000 B. C., when a diminutive cave dwelling race lived there. A landmark in its Biblical history is that the city was given by the king of Egypt to his daughter when she married Solomon. It stood on the verge of the territory inhabited by that mysterious race, the Phillistines and when David routed them he went in pursuit as far as Gezer. Among the many Old Testament stories which have fascinated humanity are the idyl of Rebecca (Genesis 20), and the exploits of Samson. Rebecca, who went to draw water from a well, was picked out from the other maidens by the servant of Abraham, who was in quest of a wife for his master's son. She thus became the wife of the Patrarch Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob. The unearthing of houses at Gezer helps experts to fill in the story of the wooing of Rebecca by reconstructing for us the home of the maiden and her interesting brother Laban. The death of Samson, narrated in the book of Judges, has been ranked as a myth by critics who could not accept the possibility of his supposed achievement in pulling down the pillars and killing so many Philistines. But in a stratum at Gezer, some 300 years older than the time of Samson, the excavators have found a form of building which answers to a remarkable extent the conditions of the story. It is a temple with a portico supported by four wooden pillars. The discoveries at Gezer also enable experts to form a fair conception of the Horites, a hitherto unknown race of cave dwellers referred to in Genesis and Deuteronomy. The Amorites who are mentioned for their "inquisities" in Genesis, now stand in clearer light, for their many forms of idolatry and moral abominations are better understood by the digging out of the "high place" of Gezer, which is the largest early Palestinian sanctuary or place of worship yet unearthed. Coolies Now Smoke Cigarettes. Coolies in China are giving up their long and cumbersome pipes, and taking in cigarettes. brothers and Associates Display Ferocity Almost Beyond Belief. Charlestown, W. Va.—A story of crime almost unparalleled reached here from Ivydale, a village in Clay county near the Braxton county border. The remains of Russell Perry, a lumber grader in the employ of the C. L., Ritter Lumber company, on Big Buffalo creek, were picked up by a section crew at Jessica, a lumber camp three miles from Ivydale. A freight train had run over the man's body and, although terribly mangled, marks of foul play were plainly seen, a bullet hole being found below one eye, while his throat had been cut from car to car apparently with a pocket knife or some such instrument. Justice W. P. Hambrick, of Clay, quickly summoned a jury for an inquest and sufficient evidence was procured to jail three young men, brothers, named Dickey, who had been drinking with Perry, while two other men are strongly suspected of complicity in the terrible crime. Evidence is said to have been given at the inquest to the effect that Perry was beaten almost into insensibility by his companions, after which he was shot while held motionless and his throat was cut. The body was then placed on the railroad track. Perry was known to have had several hundred dollars on his person, of which he had been robbed. The remains were brought to Clay to be shipped to Farmer, Ky., the dead man's home. A thorough investigation is being made in the hope of bringing to justice all implicated in the crime. The three Dickey boys are cousins of Sarah Ann Legg, who was sentenced to be hanged by the circuit court of Clay county at the last July term for the murder of her husband, but has since obtained a new trial, which is now pending. ROARIN' LION IN GEORGIA. Tattnall County Is Haunted by a Big Yellow Cat. Savannah, Ga.—The lower section of Tattnall county is pretty well scared because a wild lion has been seen in that vicinity. Mothers are keeping their children indoors after dark and posses of determined men are trying to run down the unwelcome visitor and put him to death. On Thursday the lion was seen on Mr. Brooks Harvey's place, between Morrison and Gioverland. Mr. Harvey could not kill him at that time, as he did not have his gun. The animal was seen by both Mr. and Mrs. Harvey. It was very large and appeared quite ferocious. Since then it has been heard roaring in the vicinity by several people at night. As far as can be learned, it has not carried away any hogs or cattle and the people are wondering what it lives on. Two or three searching parties have gone out for the beast, but they have not been successful in capturing him. About two years ago Mr. David Beasley killed a lion near Groverland. He has it stuffed at his home now. This one is said to be very much like the one Mr. Beasley killed and many think it is possibly his mate. Until the new arrival is slain there will continue to be excitement. Mrs. Langtry, who is now playing in a vaudeville sketch, will not allow her manager to advertise her as "Lily" Langtry Only intimates are now permitted to call her by that name THE FLIP BUG'S JUMP ARIZONA SOCIETY TORN UP OVER NEW GAME OF CHANCE. It Was Imported from Mexico—Much In Favor Now by the Women of Yuma—Rules of the Game.. Yuma, Ariz.—The high society of this town is all torn up over the evil effects of the flip bug craze. Not since Bill Baker ran off to Sonora with Bonesy Swan's wife and Bonesy's four children has Yuma had such a shakedown of its best social set. It is all due to Mrs. Isaac Steppacher's mother, Senora Chiquita Salvadores y Casablanca, of Magdalena, state of Sonora, Mexico, and the common flip bug of the Mojave desert Senora Casabianca is a Mexican of the old Castilian innage. The flip bug is a species of beetle. Senora Casabianca's chief characteristic is a love for rare forms of guaubjing. The flip bug's only interest is guaubjing. The flip bug's ability to jump a bout two times on the air when provided with a trapezic. About two months ago Snoe a Crasablanca came up from Malaysia to pay a visit to her daughter and her son in-law, "Ike" Steppacher, who, is the well known and popular night clerk" in the Golden Eagle hotel, near the railroad station. About a week after Senora Casablanca arrived Mrs. Steppacher sent out cards to the society folk inviting them to a little afternoon affair. On the bottom of the cards, which were the best specimens of the Weekly Scorpion's fine engraving work, were the words "Flip bug" in old English type. On the day of the reception the guests came early. Mrs. Steppacher did not keep them in suspense. After passing around the frappe mescal she introduced the ladies to her mother and then led them into the library. In the middle of the room stood a roulette layout without the wheel. There were chains around for the guests and a stack of chips in front of the banker's place. The wondering guests were each asked to buy fish, blue chips costing four bits and the reds and whites in proportion. Most of the women had come well heeled; the others wrote out I. O. U's. Then they sat down and Mrs. Steppacher's mother produced a flip bug. The bug, which is a beetle about as big as a three-months old cockroach, is a very peculiar insect. When caught in the fingers it will play possum and draw all of its six muscular legs up close to its abdomen. When placed on a flat surface the bug remains apparently dead until prodded in the rear. Then it will suddenly leap about two feet in the air, landing two feet or so away, sometimes on its back, sometimes on its feet. In the new game of "flip bug," as introduced at Mrs. Steppacher's reception, the bug is placed in the center of the board. There he stays, curled up while the players make their bets. One can bet on red or black; on numbers, odd or even, and on whether the flip bug will land on his back or his feet. This last chance gives an added zest to the game. When all bets are made the banker gently pokes the flip bug. He jumps. Where he lands, there the banker pays; the banker also pays on whether he lands right side up or not. Bets are then cashed, the flip bug is coralled and a new round of bets is made. When the bug jumps off the board altogether the banker gets his percentage As a matter of course, flip bug became the rage in Yuma's social set Every afternoon for weeks there was a flip bug party. Popular patrons of the town set their little boys out on the mesa hunting for flip bugs as they would a Mexican hairless dog, and carried them everywhere they went in little cages made of cork and pins and suspended on their chatelaines. Big gambling debts began to be contracted by the unfortunates and heavy orders for dress goods were sent to Los Angeles by the lucky ones. TAUGHT TO ACQUIRE REST. Wake Up Brighter After a Ten-Minute Nap. Following Noon Hour. Hazelton, Pa.—Miss Evans, a Banks township school teacher, believes she has solved the problem of drowsiness in school children after the noon hour. For some time she noticed this, and then began to do a little experimenting. Accordingly, at two p.m. of the introductory day, she explained to her pupils that she would permit them to take a nap of ten minutes, in hopes that it would brighten and enliven them to more vigorous work. The announcement was received with broad smiles, indicative of inexpressible delight. "Now, children, the signal to take a nap will be, 'Heads down!' and I want each of you to place your head on your desk and not raise it until I call 'Heads up!'" said the teacher. The first experiment worked like magic and the delight of the teacher was boundless and visions of great fame loomed before her. With the nap over the pupils resumed their studies with renewed vigor and mastered their work in a manner that was amazing. She imparted the secret to other teachers and all are favorably impressed with the idea, but fear to put it into execution until officially sanctioned. It has set many of the pedagogues thinking, and the subject will be discussed in the near future at the local institute and will no doubt eventually reach the county in-titute. Recent Death Reopens Question of Succession to Duchy of Brunswick. London.—The death of Prince Albrecht of Prussia, Regent of the Duchy of Brunswick, has reopened the question of succession to the Duchy—a question first raised on the death of the reigning Duke William in $84. The heir to the Brunswick throne is the Duke of Cumberland, who is, however, excluded on account of his refusal to give up his claim to the throne of Hanover. The late Duke of Cambridge was also excluded owing to his refusal to give up his English appointments and residence. The Ducal house of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, extinct on the death of Duke, William, was one of the most ancient and illustrious of the Germanic Confederation. His ancestor, Harry the Lion, possessed in the 1912 DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. (He Must Choose Between German and English Crowns.) twelfth century the united Duchies of Bavarla and Saxony, with other territories in Northern Germany; but having refused to aid the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in his wars with the Pope, he was, by a decree of the Diet, deprived of the whole of his territories, with the sole exception of his allodial domains, the principalities of Brunswick and Luneburg. These possessions were, on the death of Ernest the Confessor, divided between the two sons of the latter, who became founders of the lines of Brunswick-Luneburg, Elder Line, and Brunswick-Luneburg, Younger Line, the former of which was represented in the Ducal House of Brunswick, while the latter, which included Hanover in its possessions, is merged in the British royal family. After many changes, the Elder Line became Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, and the Younger Line Brunswick-Luneberg, or Brunswick-Hanover. If the Duke's claim were allowed, the Younger Line would become the reigning family, the elder being extinct. The diet of the Duchy of Brunswick has adopted the proposition made by the council of state that if the Duke does not ally himself with Prusia within three months the diet shall proceed to elect a sovereign from the collateral lines. QUEEN'S DOLL AND CRADLE. Favorite Toys of Girlhood Days of Alexandra. London.—Here is a picture of the doll and its cradle that were the tax orite toys of Queen Alexandra a of Queen Alexandra's Toys. Great Britain when she was a little girl. They have been treasured by her through all the years, and quite recently she presented them to a London museum. At the time the present queen of England delighted in rocking her quaint little baby doll to sleep in its equally quaint cradle she was the daughter of the duke of Schleswig-Helstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg. The duke, in expectation of the crown of Denmark, gave drawing lessons to increase his modest income. His daughters were brought up quite strictly. They were made to learn diligently. They had to cut out and sew their own toilers. For this purpose each of them received about $3 a month, which sufficed to dress them from head to foot. And the three little German girls were marvelously pretty in their simple, thin cotton frocks. Only the boots wore out far too soon, which was a source of great trouble to Alexandra, who was always dancing and jumping about. An engineer named Fisher, according to a dispatch from Berlin, Germany, has taken out a patent for wireless electrical appliances by which steam will be automatically shut off in two vessels that are approaching each other in a fog at a distance of from one-half to three-quarters of a mile. Money isn't everything, but it often makes a good imitation. THE BEE PUBLISHED AT 1100 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. On copy per year.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three Months.....60 Subscribe monthly.....20 There is a disposition on the part of a few prejudiced individuals to accuse Prof. B. T. Washington of being responsible for the childish order of Mr. Roosevelt. Now what did he have to do with the action of the President? What made Mr. Washington responsible for dismissal of these colored troops any more than the editor of The Bee? Is it fair or just to continually hound this man and misrepresent and charge him with acts of which he is not guilty? If Mr. Washington has made mistakes or said things that we did not approve, is it fair to resurrect the dead when he is now bringing forth live issues. Has not the time come for united action on the part of the colored citizens? We want it understood that The Bee will continue to support Mr. Washington when he is right, just as it would any other American citizen. Mr. Washington is doing things now that no other American can do. Tuskegee is a monument to the colored man South, and it is the duty of those who are living in the South to make, terms with those who will treat them properly. If it is to the interest of the colored citizens South to vote the Democratic ticket or any other ticket, he should do so. A man is very foolish to vote against those from whom he receives his support. Let the race unite. Let us forget the brutalities of the past and unite with Mr. Washington in strengthening the business interests of the colored American. The colored citizens must be able to meet the white man in every walk of life. What must he do, therefore, to accomplish it? Mr. Washington does not oppose higher education. He says so. He does not advocate industrial education to the exclusion of everything else. Since these are facts, why should we then oppose him? If he advocates the same principles and methods we advocate, why then oppose him? One or two of our contemporaries have gone into hysteries because we are broad-minded enough to give Mr. Washington credit for what he is doing. That is the great trouble with the colored Americans. Democrats and Republicans fight, the blue and the gray stab each other in public and dine and sleep together. But the colored man never knows when he has enough. Some imagine that the best policy is to remain divided always. We have read after and heard Mr. Washington speak and we are convinced that he is the race's truest friend, notwithstanding what others may say of him. In this regard we must part with the company of opposition and turn our attention to the enemy within and without. If Mr. Washington is doing everything to aid his people, why accuse him? HE, REFUSES? President Roosevelt refuses to yield to the demands of the American people, but would rather cater to the prejudiced whims and demands of the South. The people should ask him no favors but ap- DR. W. E. CHANCELLOR. The Bee presents to its readers this week a portrait and the views of Superintendent W. E. Chancellor on the colored citizen. The Bee has always maintained that Dr. Chancellor has no color prejudice Galloranth A. M. E Zion Church Sunday and it has found itself strongly sustained in this direction. If the people would come in closer touch with Dr. Chancellor they would appreciate him better. There are all kinds of conjectures as to his prospective southern trip. Now, is it a crime for an educator to go South? Strange to say, but nevertheless true, some of the best educated colored men and women come from the South. Then why not permit him to go South and ascertain the secret of the Southern educated colored man? Dr. Chancellor is desirous of visiting some of the leading colleges South and see if these southern institutions, conducted by colored teachers, are conducted upon the same basis as the colored schools of this city, and if their methods of teaching are better, he will no doubt introduce them into the schools. He has a knowledge of the teaching in northern white schools, hence his visit to the colored schools South. As a refutation of the charge that Dr. Chancellor is color prejudiced, The Bee is aware of the appointment of a Miss Smith (colored) as a teacher in a white school. This lady is yet employed as a teacher of white children in Patterson, N. J. Since Dr. Chancellor has been superintendent of the schools in this city, his efforts have been to improve their condition. The color of a teacher's skin does not enter into his mind. He treats every teacher with respect who comes to his office and here has never been a man at the head of our schools who has endeavored to do more than Dr.Chan- cellor. He is aggressive and progressive. These useless and harmless agitators who are tramping the streets at night abusing the superintendent do not represent the school interest in this city. They are without a following and without authority to represent the people. When the people of this city want to be represented they will authorize some one to represent them, but they certainly repudiate this self-constituted citizens' committee consisting of about five disgruntled individuals seeking notoriety. If they had any standing at home they would not attempt to thrust themselves upon other people and neither would they attempt to represent other people without authority. These attacks upon the Board of Education are unfounded and if this self-constituted committee wants something to attack, let it go to work on the Jim Crow cars that enter and go out the city from Alexandria, Va. THE SACRIFICE John Wright, who has been condemned today by a Virginia jury for an alleged crime, is a black spot upon the fair name and reputation of the state which is known as the Mother of Presidents. This is a case where justice should step in and stay the hand of an unjust and foul verdict. If what has been reported be true, the conviction of this innocent man will be a monetary sacrifice of a man who is not guilty of crime. The Bee doesn't believe that the good people of the state of Virginia will permit the execution of Wright with the evidence that was introduced at the trial. Attorney Clements, who was assigned to defend Wright, made a bold and eloquent defense. He has demonstrated his legal ability and has established beyond all doubt the innocence of Wright, notwithstanding the verdict of the jury. The persistency with which this unfortunate man has been pursued, the methods that were resorted to to force identification, all tend to prove the innocence of this unfortunate man, representation was made to Judge Clabaugh when the governor of Virginia issued a requisition? What did Crandall Mackey tell the Chief Justice? Was he told that Wright would be arraigned and tried for an alleged murder committed in Alexandria Co., or would he tried for rape claimed to have been committed on Miss Grisby? What did Crandall Mackey tell certain colored members of the bar before he carried Wright across the line? Wright is being sacrificed to satisfy the prejudices of a Virginia mob or the mercenary ambition of those interested in Luna Park. While it is but right that a people should resent disparaging references to them, yet there is such a thing as taking offense when none is intended; and there is such a thing as a people who employ degrading terms when speaking of one another and yet becoming angry or affecting to become angry when other people use terms far less offensive. Some very prominent colored people are in the habit of referring to other colored people as "niggers" and "darkies," and yet become highly indignant when they themselves are referred in the same terms. We have in mind a colored man of national reputation who has a distinct liking for the term darky when speaking of those of his own kind in private conversation. A few days since a case was on trial in one of the courts. On one side was a colored lawyer, and on the other side was a white lawyer and a colored lawyer. The white lawyer referred to each of the other lawyers as Mister So-and-so; the colored lawyers referred to the white lawyer as Mister So-and-so, but when they referred to each other it was simply So-and-so. The fact is that a people must respect themselves before they can complain of disrespect from others. There is entirely too much stage play in all our dealings with serious matters. First of all be honest and sincere in speech and in act, and then there will be no ground THE ADMINISTRATION. There have been times when we could boast of administrations. But what has the present administration done of which we can boast or admire? Its blunders have been many which have been disastrous or fatal. It will go down in history as the weakest since the foundation of the government. The death of the late President McKinely took from the Cabinet some of the most learned men in the republic and supplanted them by some of the smallest. To a great extent many of the appointees have been mediocre as well as narrow and prejudiced in their actions. It has been a selfish and treacherous play to the Southern oligarchy to the detriment and degradation of the colored citizen. That the rank and file of the colored citizens have been deceived and today they are wondering what the next step will be. "Will the negro race work out its own salvation along the Mound Bayou lines? Quien sabe? These have worked out for themselves a better local government than any superior people have ever done for them in freedom. But it is a generally accepted principle in political economy that any homogeneous people will in time do this. These people have their local government, but it is in cononance with the county. State and national governments and international conventions all in the hands of another race. Could they conduct as successfully a county government in addition to their local government and still under the State and national governments conducted by another race? Sufficient negroes of the Mound Bayou type, and guided as they were in the beginning, will be able to do so." POLITICAL SLAVERY. from the Philadelphia Courant. Philadelphia, the birthplace of American liberty, stands foremost today as an example of bourism and political slavery. The system of graft has supermeated every line of the public service, under "Gang" manpulation, that only by a most sweeping resolution can the city be restored to a semblance of that condition for which it was named. The seriousness of this condition does not seem to force itself upon us in proportion to our vital interests. Outsiders say that Philadelphia is "corrupt and contented," and that the negro voters are assisting in perpetuating this system of corruption to the eternal disgrace of the whole race. The issue is of more concern to us as a race than it is to other races. The white man's love of ethics allows him better opportunities to dodge the responsibility. He is measured by the best in his race, while we are too often measured by the worst in ours. THE CONVICTION OF JOHNSON. From the Richmond Planet. The case of Austin Johnson (colored), charged with criminal assault upon Ruth Pinchback (white), is one of the most remarkable in the criminal annals of this state. That she was criminally assaulted admits of po question and that the fiend who assaulted her has gone "unwhipt of justice" is a fact that all thoughtful observing men will recognize. We would like to see him given the extreme penalty of the law. The fact that the alleged guilty colored man was given twenty years in the Virginia penitentiary by a Henrico Co. jury is very good evidence that Johnson is innocent. CRAFTY AND CUNNING. From the Texas Freeman. The Freeman now knows that President Roosevelt is more of a crafty and cunning politician than he is a state-man. It also knows that he has less backbone in cases of emergency than he has heretofore been credited with. Were it not so, why did he wait until after the battle of the ballots had been fought and settled in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois before issuing his order for the dismissal of the colored troops? Why didn't he issue that order before the election was decided in those five States? Col. N F Thompson, of Chattanooga, Tenn., in a talk with President Roosevelt on October 22, said that the loafing, idle negro is cause of the race difficulties at the South. He wants the I read in the last week Herald a speech made by Rev. Bishop Johnson cerning the disbandment of the negro troops, whose reinstatement we all desire to see. The Herald quotes our worthy friend as saying in part that "He had lived in the North twelve years, and was educated there; he had lived in the South thirty-two years, and from his experience he preferred the Southern gentlemen to the Yankee." Such remarks coming from a person of Bishop Johnson's intelligence surprise me; for he preferred the North for his education and he must be aware of the fact that the Yankee made possible his rights, not only to education, but to citizenship; that the Yankee is fighting today for the recognition and the re-establishment of citizenship in the fullest extent of its meaning, wherever the negro has been deprived of it. Then, too, has he forgotten our friends of the ante-bellum days, who did so much to bring about the freedom of the negroes—such persons as Owen Lovejoy, Wendell Phillips, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet B. Stowe, and Charles Sumner, and many others whose memory we will cherish as a people and revere as long as life lasts? And has he forgotten the fact that the Yankee is spending his time, money and efforts in the education of the negro in the Southland, giving them the higher as well as the industrial; sitting them to enter their colleges, and offering them the same opportunities for competition with the whites in the colleges, giving honor and merit where it is due, without regard to race or color? It is evident that all our friends in the North are not dead, which has been shown by their eloquent appeal for lenency made through the press, namely, the New York papers, the New England Papers, the Western papers, and our own (the Washington) papers. Such remarks are not calculated to inspire what Northern friends we have to stand by us, to continue their interest in us, nor is it likely to add more friends to our ranks. I feel safe in saying that Rev. Bishop Johnson was speaking for himself when he remarked that he preferred the Southern gentlemen to the Yankee, and in no way voiced the sentiment of our people who know too well the limit of the Southerner's love. The gentlemen of the South who wish to see the negro rise and acquire all that is necessary to make him the equal of all that is best in the dominant race, are scarce. Most of them wish to see our people elevated along certain lines, and these lines attached to trees, where their elevation is rapid, whether merited or not, and while undergoing this suspended elevation they are shown a grand example of the higher state of civilization by having their bodies riddled with bullets. The Southern gentlemen then come forth and displays his love for the negro by entering protests and suggesting remedies against future violence after the diabolical work of that most terrible, and disgraceful of all Southern institutions, "lynching," has been accomplished. As I have stated previously, the negroes know the limit of the Southern love; and as far as the negro is concerned the Southern is no believer in the brotherhood of man, nor of equal justice. The North was their friend in antebellum days, and they look to the North now for sympathy and assistance. THE PRESIDENT'S INJUSTICE Editorial in New York World. In army circles, as well as outside them, President Roosevelt's wholesale order of dishonorable discharge against every man in three companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, is indignantly condemned. Aside from its injustice and inexpediency, its legality is challenged by competent authorities. As Commander-in-Chief of the Army the President has absolute power to discharge any enlisted man without trial, but has he legal authority to make that discharge "dishonorable" at his caprice? It would be well if the courts were called on to determine this point. Congress saw fit years ago to limit the President's powers over commissioned officers and to prescribe trials in all cases. But the enlisted man is utterly without protection. He does not need to be guilty of or even charged with any offense against the regulations. It is enough for the President to be in a bad humor or to feel an impulse to "do things," including the wrong thing, and nearly two hundred colored soldiers are turned out of the army in disgrace. President Roosevelt admits that quite a number of innocent by his order. He do how many soldiers are participating in the Brown or how many know ones are. Nothing ence. Still, no one rec tenant colonel of the Rough the spring of 1898, demandinary measures when jumped their horses San Juan. Quite the of them have not held since, it must be because not asked for them "regulars" of the Twenty-fifth figured quite as heroically noisily, before Santiago ciplined Rough Riders GEORGIA POLITI Atlanta, Ga., November 10 The politics of Georgia is dictated in Atlanta. That all parties The Republican long since ceased to be a fact state affairs In fact one would that there was a Republican but for the quadrennial struggates to the National Cm though it is fifteen month next Republican State C assemble, moves are already which will show how things out when the convention meet For some time there has been a ness between B. J. Davis, editor of the Atlanta Independent, and John H. Deveaux, collector of custom at New Recently Mr. Davis and C. Deveaux had a meeting and settled all the differences, and are now working to harmoniously Davis is under a power in Georgia politics, and in was a heighman of National Committee man Lyons, and was a controlling man in bringing about Lyons' reelection that year and in 1904 Lyons has gradually been losing his grip in things here and now that it is said that he will open a law office in Washington and practice his profession there, it may be put down as a certainty that he is down and out for good, so far as Georgia politics concerned. The few remaining Republicans in the State are not going to submit to an absentee boss, and in taking up his abode at the nation's Mr. Lyons in a measure set on the people of Georgia that he not again seek political homes at their hands. Col. J. H. Deveaux will be power in the Republican parties of the State, and his face will be seen in the next National Convention of the Republican party as a delegate from Georgia Henry L. Johnson an attorney in law, of this city, will be another and B. J. Davis, if he wants it, can easily be elected. In all probability the next national committeeman from Georgia will be either Col Walter H Johnson or Mr. Henry Edwards. The race has not yet found a man who fills the shoes of the late W. A. Pledger Henry L. Johnson comes near it as anybody, but the time demanded of him by his large law practice will leave him but little time for the game of practical politics. Still the people trust him and will confer on him any honor. Another man who will be useful to is Prof. R. R. Wright, president of the State Industrial College, near Suffolk. Professor Wright announced his most from polites some years ago he is still consulted as to matters he has been in consultation with Nora Chairmas Cortelyou, and some boys" think he is "persona good court. Professor Wright is an and has resdreired the race good and any honor conferred on The Week in Society O SUBSCRIBERS. S. workers for The Bee are notified that collector will be sent to them for suspensions and they will either call a officer or send a check or postal money. The management will not any subscribers with collectors. Address: B. L. C. Subscription Department. The Washington Bee, 1009 Eye street W. Jackson, while in Indian guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. Moss gave a "stag" in Jackson, to which many invited. Mr. Jackson Washington. Isaac Smith, of New Roentertained at dinner, on October 11. Mr. W. A. Pinchbride. Philadelphia, Mr. W. A. entertained by Miss Cedar Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Upshaw left last Saturday Pittsburg, Pa., to attend the Brother, Rev. A. M. Lew- pastor of the First Baptist Pittsburg. Lew has, after a pleasant return to his post of Agricultural Department, Jackson has been visiting New York, among whom was cousin, Mrs. Joseph A. Harrytown Burgess, of our city, was Mr. Harry Macon, of St. Hla. last week in Newport, Island pleasant trip in Washington, Macon and his bride will go Auguste, Fla. to reside Josephine Atkinson, who was the Mrs. John Spriggs, of Baltimore also the guest of honor at a given by Miss T. Brown at her Baltimore. William Miller, the wife of the mer of Richmond, Va., died to 104 East Leigh street, the for a long illiess. Graham and his bride, for Maggie Streets, of Manches- spend a part of their hon- city, guests at an entertainment Richard Chavers and at Indianapolis, Ind., was Jackson, of the District of Mr. A. Fallon, of Wylie street where he has been ill, is fast trying. Mr. D. Thomas Chase was buried in his residence, 825 Thirteenth northwest Mr. Chase was a mu- tual profession. Attorney J. A. Cobb returned from New York city Monday, where he had professional business. W. Sheppard, of Durham, N. wished on the city next week, at which he will make final arrange- ment in trip to Rome. Mr. Kate Dean was taken suddenly work and taken to the Emergency Hospital. She was suffering from anaemia. She is better now and her work for humanity. he tar at the Second Baptist Church well attended Miss M. and Virgie Williams, of Abbott, S. C. have entered the learner College of Howard Universi- tie Miss Hattie Shadd, of the High School who has been quite ill, is able to resume or work in the High School from Miss Shadd is quite a favorite with pupils. Lect. R. E. Toomey is ill at his office in Anacostia. Mrs E. Evelie A. Norton was recently pardoned at Richmond, Va., an absolute course from her husband, Charles H. Horton, and also given the right to re- name her maiden name. A. W. Scott is the attorney. WORMLY-FRANCIS Miss Alice Wormly and Mr. John R. Francis, Jr. were married last Wednesday evening at six o'clock. The marriage took place at the residence of the bride, 1531 Fourteenth street northwest. Rev. Rivers, of Berean Baptist Church, officiated. On account of the sickness of Mrs.Wormly,only the immediate friends of the family were present. MissWormly is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Smith Wormly. Miss Alice, up to the time of her marriage, was a teacher in the public schools of this city. She is a very smart young lady and is very popular among a large circle of young ladies. She comes from one of the best and most widely known families in this city. She is the sister of Dr. Sumner Wormly, and is his favorite sister. Mr. Francis is the son of Dr. John R. and Mrs. Bettie Francis. He also is highly connected, and comes from one of the oldest and leading families in the city. Mr. Francis is a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, and Miss Wormly is a product of the public schools of this city. While only the immediate friends of the family were present last Wednesday evening, the affair was a most brilliant one. Both of the contracting parties are very young and favorite in the social circle. It is uite probable that Mr. and Mrs. Francis will very shortly begin housekeeping, as they have already selected a fine residence. Rev. W. H. Ferris, A.M., will preach at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, 708 O street northwest, Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Rev. Ferris is a graduate of Harvard and Yale. Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, pastor. BAXTER-KELLY. Miss Elnora M. Baxter, of 318 C street southwest, and Mr. Edward Kelley will be married in St. Cyprian Catholic Church Tuesday evening, November 27, at 8 o'clock. Miss Baxter will have as her maid her sister, Miss Maud M. Baxter, and Mr. Frederick Chew will be the best man. Marriage of Miss Blanche E. Carter, of No. 422 Second street southwest, to Mr. Grant Greenfield, Wednesday, November 21, 1906, at St. Cyprian Church. At home after November 26, No. 301 Eleventh street northeast. Marriage of Miss Mary V. Thompson, of No. 417 Eighth street southwest, to Mr. William M. Terry, Wednesday, November 28, at residence. At home. December 2, 431 Eighth street southwest. BETHEL LITERARY The Bethel Literary and Historical Association met last Tuesday evening, with Miss Marie Madre, president, presiding. Seated upon the stage were Mrs. Mary Church Terrell and Mrs. Julia Layton. It had been announced that Gen. Andrew S. Burt, late commander of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, would address the meeting. The General not having put in his appearance, Rev. Walter N. Brooks, pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, was introduced by Miss Madre and made a most eloquent address. He was frequently applauded during its delivery. He denounced the recent order of dismissal of the colored troops by the President as the most atrocious in the annals of military history. At the conclusion of his address Mrs. Julia Mason Layton recited a piece and made an address. Mrs. Layton is a pleasing speaker and always electrifies her audience wherever she goes. Mr. W. Calvin Chase was called for and the vast audience of two thousand people cried to him to take the platform amidst applause and an enthusiastic demonstration. Mr. Chase spoke about twenty minutes. He read the receipt signed by Mrs. Bullock, the grandmother of the President, for the sum of $800 paid as purchase money for a young woman slave, one of the Bullock family servants. That woman was sold to raise money to buy the trousseau for President Roosevelt's mother. It need be no wonder that the President is against the black man. Six years ago, declared Mr. Chase, I told you that Mr Roosevelt was against the black man. He was then and he is today. His acts show it. Then I was declared crazy, or I had a disappointed ambition. If that be so, further remarked Mr. Chase, I have company to follow me to the asylum. Turning to Mrs. Terrel, Mr. Chase said that he wanted to compliment her for going to the Secretary of War and temporarily staying the execution of the President's order, but it is all in vain, because the President has cabled to the Secretary that he declined to revoke the order of dismissal. November 27, Prof. R. T. Greene wilf-speak. GALBRAITH CHURCH. Rev. Dr. S. L. Corrothers, pastor of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, will deliver a special sermon Sunday morning in the "Mission of Woman." In the afternoon at 3 o'clock there will be a splendid program rendered by the women of the city, all churches being represented. At night the pastor will deliver the annual sermon to the society known as the Tents of the District of Columbia. Last Sunday was a great day in Zion, and the church and pastor grow in the favor of the public as the time goes by. Last Saturday evening the Household of Ruth, Queen Deborah Lodge, No. 23, had their annual sermon at Galbraith Church. The church was crowded. PROTECT THE MAN IN UNIFORM St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Let the Government in Washington beware lest it be stamped by the clamor which is being raised against the negro soldiers at Brownsville: Several of the soldiers undoubtedly committed offenses against the law. But the aggressors in the first place were not the black soldiers, but the white citizens. A negro soldier in uniform was knocked down by a white man for passing a party of white men and women on the street. So far as learned, the soldier-behaved himself. He offered, no insult to anybody. He violated no ordinance, municipal or divine. The streets of Brownsville, in theory at least, are open to all sorts of people, red, black, and white, who conduct themselves with propriety. After the insult and maltreatment to to their comrade a party of negro soldiers raided a saloon, and in the disorder which ensued one or two lives were lost. This is deplorable, and the negro culprits should be punished. But what about the white offender who started the disorder? Is there to be no punishment for him? Is the black man, even when he wears the United States uniform, to be assailed when he walks the streets peacefully? Race prejudice is strong in Brownsville. So it is all over Texas, all over the South, and throughout part of the North and West. This is unfortunate for both whites and blacks. But when a black man, wearing the uniform of the army of the United States, is assailed on the street for no other offense than that of having a black skin, it is time for the Government which he defends to come to his rescue. There are four negro regiments in the army. Of the 13,000 cavalry, approximately 2,000 are black men. There are in the neighborhood of 2,000 black men among the 25,000 cavalry. These four black regiments, nearly all of whose commissioned officers are white, have done good service for the Government. Their members, on the whole, are well behaved, and are obedient and are brave. The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, the first regiment of negroes who were enlisted in 1861-65, did hard fighting at Fort Wagner and in other battles of the Rebellion. The only fighting of any consequence which was done in Cuba in 1898 was done by the black and the white regulars, though much of the credit for it went elsewhere. As professional soldiers, however, these black men and these white men did the fighting as part of their day's work, aand asked no special credit for it. So long as the United States enlistes black men to help to do its fighting it is in honor bound to defend them against insult or assault when they are violating no law. When the white disturber in Brownsville assailed the black man in uniform who was quietly walking the streets the Natioial Government, was attacked. A Government which would refuse to protect a black man, a red man, or a brown man who wears its uniform and obeys its laws would not deserve to be defended by white men or any other sort of men. YES. From the Recorder. Do you believe it was right for Governor Hanly to separate delinquent State officials from the public service and visit upon them the same punishment that would have come upon you if you had committed a similar offense, perhaps in a smaller way? Do you believe that the law ought to be enforced against the high as well as the low, the rich as well as the poor, the politically weak as well as the politically strong? Commissioner Henry L. West, Democrat, has promoted Mr. R. T. Douglass, colored, to a permanent clerkship in the office of Property Clerk. This is only one of the many appointments and promotions of colored men made by Mr. West. The colored citizens feel grateful to Mr. West for his interest in them. WILL JOHN WRIGHT HANG? It will be remembered that John Wright, the colored man who was confined in the District Jail several weeks ago, was turned over to the Virginia authorities on the requisition from the Governor of Virginia. Before Wright was turned over to the Virginia authorities it was claimed that he was wanted for murder, he having been indicted by the Grand Jury of Alexandria, Va. It was also claimed that this man had committed an assault upon a white woman, and she was brought to the District Jail to identify him. Wright was brought down from his cell with six other prisoners, and they all stood in line. The woman was asked to identify the man. She walked up to the line and positively identified Alabama Joe as being the man who assaulted her. Warden Harris became disgusted, and ordered the men to be returned to their cells." The woman was rebuked for having made such a blunder. The company left, and in a few days or a day thereafter this same crowd returned, accompanied by the woman alleged to have been assaulted. The same men were brought before her, this time she picked out Wright. It was then that a telegram had been sent to the Virginia authorities to the effect that the right man had been identified. It is claimed that Commonwealth's Attorney Randall Mackey assured Justice Clabaugh that Wright would be tried on the alleged murder charge. But the moment Wright was landed in Virginia he was arraigned on this alleged assault charge. Mr. James E. Clements, a white lawyer of prominence, was assigned to the case by the court. After the women had testified, Attorney Clements began, to cross-examine her, and when he asked certain questions Mackey objected, and he was sustained by the court. Attorney Clements asked the witness Mrs Grisby if she was attended by a doctor. This was objected to and sustained by the court. Contain Matthews, of the Fourth Presidet testified that Wright, the defendant, had several women as wives. This was objected to by Attorney Clements, and overruled by the Court, who said that he wanted to know all about the man. Everything that the Commonwealth wanted to show was allowed to be testified to by the court. During the cross-examination of the witnesses by Attorney Clements he was interrupted by Mackey, and so unbearable were those interruptions that Attorney Clements threatened Mackey and told him that he would not tolerate his impudence on the outside. It was plainly shown at the trial that Wright had not been identified by the woman alleged to have been assaulted, and Attorney Clements in his address to the jury declared that it was the most dastardly affair that he had ever witnessed, and if Wright was convicted he would be by perjured testimony. It is so strange that the white men of the South had trusted their wives and daughters with the black man while they had gone to the war to enslave them, and after their return they found these same black men at their homes protecting them. It is a shame. If I though this man guilty I would not defend him, but you are crucifying a human soul and I propose to see as far as it lies within my power that he is properly defended. The consensus of opinion is that Wright is not guilty, that the woman was never assaulted, and there is a monetary reason someone in the neighborhood of Luna Park wanted Wright convicted. Efforts will be made to have the Court of Appeals to grant Wright a new trial. THE WORLD GROWS BETTER. Oh! the earth is full of sinning, and of trouble, and of woe, lands and areas known, You will find the buried ages far more w'edkci uy.la 7890 7890 7890 789 wicked than our own; W.SidneyPittman Architect EXPERT BUILDERS EXAMINERS AND ESTIMATORS Plans gotten out at short notice from rough sketches, pencil drawings, written or verbal description, and mailed to any section of the country. In the past forty-two months we have designed, overhauled, repaired and built over Eight Hundred Thousand ($800,000) Dollars worth of work in Washington, D. C., and vicinity, the work being of nearly every description and character. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF DESIGNING FOR CHURCHES, SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND HALLS. We also make a specialty of building up vacant lots,installing steam and industrial plants for schools, colleges and business places. Anyone contemplating having plans gotten out, buildings overhauled or repaired, we would be glad to have them call on or write us. And that the time will shortly come when justice will be done. To rich and poor, to high and low, to every race of man, And that these great United States will dare to lead the van In holding up for the "square deal" for justice, truth and right, Protecting every citizen, let them be black or white. —J. Conway Jackson. MRS. ROSETTA E. LAWSON'S GOOD WORK. Macon Co., Ala., Nov. 15, 1906 It will interest the citizens of Washington to know what excellent work Mrs. Jesse Lawson is doing in Macon County, Alabama, in the direction of promoting temperance among the masses of the colored people. Macon County is the one in which the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute is situated, and Mrs. Lawson has been engaged by the authorities of the school to spend a month in doing temperance work in this county. She began by visiting an association about five miles in the country from the school, where there were delegates representing a large section of Alabama. On Sunday she visited the jail and talked to the prisoners, and in all spoke to three or four meetings on that day. She is speaking constantly during the day to schools, and at night to large gatherings in different sections of the county far PATENT DRAWINGS DRAFTING,DETAILING,TRACING BLUE PRINTING TION A SPECIALTY. 494 Louisiana Ave.,N.W. INKford, WINERS AND ESTIMATORS. from rough sketches, pencil draw- and mailed to any section of the months we have designed, overhauled, hundred Thousand ($800,000) Dol- , D. C., and vicinity, the work be- d character. OF DESIGNING FOR CHURCH- DINGS AND HALLS. building up vacant lots, installing steam colleges and business places. Any- gotten out, buildings overhauled or them call on or write us. ,,Residence, 1210 V Street, N. W., Telephone 4629. and, Va. Va. removed from any town or railroad; in fact, she is reaching the masses of our people in a manner that very few of our people ever do. She seems to enjoy the work, and in all her talks gets right down to business. Mrs. Lawson is speaking twice a day every day, and sometimes three times a day. This is in addition to traveling from five to ten miles a day in an open carriage to reach these different points. Everywhere the people are glad to hear her message and glad to heed her teachings. The Bee madvertently omitted in its last issue to publish the names of the young ladies who took conspicuous part in the Old Maids' Convention so successfully produced at Grand Army Hall recently. The ladies who acted the part of "Impersonators" were Jessie Parks, Edith Fleetwood, Rosebud Murray, Daisy Watson, Bertha Saunders, Lossie Cromwell, May Saunders, Ocie Brooks, Generia Walker, Eunice Dorster, Gertie Ryan, Helen Jones, Lottie Wallace, Julia Collier, Florie Tolbert, Mamie Broidie, and Mrs. Florence James. Master Julius Dixon impersonated Topsy, and Mr. Eustice B. Johnson, Professor Perkins. Several solos were sung during the comedy by the Misses Murray, Wallace and others. "O Promise Me," by Miss Wallace was particularly well received, and heartily applauded. The Metropolitan Orchestra played several selections after the rudition of the play. FOOT BALL The Howard-Shaw game on Thanksgiving Day on Howard Campus. Saturday, November 24, Annapolis On Howard Field. Admission 25 cents. According to the decision of the District Court of Appeals, recently made, a married woman can sue her husband in the District of Columbia for failure to comply with a legal, valid, binding contract. At Madison, Fla, on the 9th, the whites seized a colored man prisoner from the jail, hanged him to the regulation tree, and filled him full of bullets. The Missionary Bible Training Institute of the District of Columbia has been incorporated in this city; main object, the betterment of the colored race. The Masons of the Nineteenth Street F. L. Barnett, colored, to the surprise of all, has been elected Municipal Judge of Chicago. He was put up by the Republicans to catch the negro vote. Race prejudice has been aroused, and the Republicans denounced. Last week Mr. Zion Methodist Church celebrated its nineteenth anniversary by services, etc. It was founded and built 1876. It has a membership of six hundred. BONES OF MASTODON FOUND ON FARM NEAR SOUTH BEND, IND. Collected by a Professor at Notre Dame University and Set Up In Science Hall at That Institution. Notre Dame, Ind.—Prof. A. B. Rey- nolds, of Notre Dame university, has finished collecting the bones of a metodon which was unearthed by a cream dredge on the farm of George Kawowski, three miles southwest of Crownstown, a suburb of South Bend, Ind. The skeleton of the prehistoric matter is to be set up in Science at Notre Dame university. According to scientists 10,000 years at the lowest calculation have elapsed since the creature existed. The bones have not yet been placed together, but a fair idea of the size of the skeleton may be conceived from the fact that the ribs are over four feet in length. The thigh bone, which corresponds to the upper part of the leg of man, is two feet eight inches long, seven inches in diameter and after being subjected to thousands of years to the corroding forces of nature now weighs 35 pounds. Two back teeth weigh six and one-half pounds each and measure seven and one-half inches in length and breadth and three and one-half inches in thickness. A portion of a broken ivory tusk was found which measures over four and one-half feet in length and seven inches in diameter at one end and four inches at the other. Mastodons, mammoth elephants and other huge beasts, say scientists, once roamed in herds in parts of Europe, Asia and North America during the period when these countries were connected by land. The mastodon was similar to the mammoth elephant, being a third taller than the largest species of modern elephant and covered with a coat of long hair. Their tusks turned upward. Remains of both have been found in the old world and in the new world. In the beginning of the past century one of these elephants was found at the mouth of the Lena and it was so well preserved that wolves and bears ate of the ancient flesh. This skeleton was set up by the Russian government in the museum at St. Petersburg. While hunting in April Charles Custer, a boy of 16, discovered a number of great bones and teeth lying on the bank of a large ditch, where the excavator had turned them out three years before. The finding of the mysterious bones aroused the curiosity of the neighborhood and many people visited the spot and carried away relics. Rev. Aledancer Beecher, of Terre Coupe, Ind., came across some of the bones and was instrumental in starting the collection of them for the Notre Dame museum. Many of those who had taken bones willingly gave them up, while others insisted on securing a price for them. Mr. Larkowski consented to allow a number of men to carry on the work of excavating and many more bones were uncovered. Bones which were not found will be made from plaster parts, as in nearly all cases a similar bone has been discovered. The bones of the skull, tusks and hips were broken by the dredge, but nearly all the vertebrae, ribs and leg bones were recovered in good condition. The skeleton lay in quicksand at least a fourth of a mile from the nearest border of the marsh. Several thousand crops of marsh grass with scattered willows had grown and decayed over the monster, covering him to a depth of nearly eight feet. While digging the big ditch across the marsh the dredge was mired at this spot and it took four days to extricate it. It is probable that the prehistoric monster was mired in the same way and had been there long before the foundations for the pyramids were laid. The teeth are best preserved. The enamel on them is three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. They were probably white in the beast, but they have become discolored and are now a shiny black. One of the teeth shows a cavity, evidently caused by decay, while the animal was alive, where the tooth was in contact with the next tooth. The cavity is very similar to the cavities in the same position in decayed human teeth. Participants In Love's Young Dream Finally United. Boston—"Forty years ago John Postkins said good-by to me and came to America to make his fortune," said Miss Louise Goldthorpe, of England, at the immigration station. "That was a long time ago, and I am afraid John forgot me for awhile. He married and had five children, but now he is a widower, and he has asked me to marry him. I'm a little old looking for a bride, but I feel as young and as happy as a girl of 20." She arrived on the Saxonia on her way to Deer Lodge, Mont., to marry Perkins, who is a wealthy rancher there. He has started east to meet her. Miss Goldthorpe is a sweet-faced woman of 60 years. The civil war was just over when Perkins bade her goodbye and took ship for America. He was three weeks on a journey that she accomplished in eight days. He had a hard row to hoe, but he finally amassed a comfortable fortune, and his bride-elect declares she will live with his sons and daughters, most of whom are grown up, as if they were her own. The Home of President Diaz When He Farmed for a Living. ```markdown ``` This house is situated in the ancient Aztec town of Tlalocotalpam and is the memorial of a period of great happiness in the life of the maker of Mexico. In the closed door at the left farmer Diaz was wont to sit of an evening smoking cigarettes (he no longer smokes) and twangling his guitar. It was the one period of his life when, as he pathetically expresses it himself, he could sleep whenever he was tired FEW WHITEFISH LEFT FINNY DELICACY FAST PASSING FROM GREAT LAKES. Government Asked to Provide Funds to Prevent Loss of Remunerative Industry and Valuable Food Detroit, Mich.—That the whitefish of the great lakes are passing as rapidly from existence as did the millions of of bison which at one time swarmed the American prairies is an undisputed fact, and with the realization that with the departure of the whitefish industry the United States government loses one of its most remunerative industries, and also one of the most valuable food products on the market, it is strongly urged that some remedy be adopted at once. A man prominently connected with one of the government fish hatcheries and who is well informed on the question of fish culture and propagation, stated that the one and only successful remedy is to promptly increase the capacity of the various hatcheries. "The government should be willing to expend ten times the amount of money it now does on the propagation of the whitefish," said the hatchery man, "because the whitefish is the most valuable fresh-water fish known, end even exceeds the value of salmon $50 per ton in the eastern markets, while considerable more is paid out yearly for the Pacific coast hatcheries. "And then, too," he continued, "30,000 more whitefish eggs can be handled in the same space taken by salmon eggs." To illustrate the seriousness of the impending whitefish destruction, the following figures, which are correct in every instance, were given out for publication: The catch of whitefish in Michigan in 1891 was 3,110,000 pounds, while in 1901 it fell off to 1,197,000 pounds in Lake Eile the catch for 1899 was 3,300,000 pounds and in 1899 it came to 2,100,000 pounds. From 1893 to 1905 the catch in On ario decreased from 7,500,000 pounds to 2,855,000 pounds. The total catch of whitefish in the great lakes on both the American and Canadian sides in 1904 exceeded 3,500,000 fish, averaging two pounds and a half in weight, and the loss of eggs contained in these fish exceeded 35,000,000,000. In 1905 the combined hatcheries of the United States and Canada only propagated the eggs from less than 10,000 fish, which is altogether inadequate to overcome the great loss of eggs destroyed by the fishermen. Lake Michigan alone in 1904 gave up 1,000,000 fish, and it is safe to say that Lake Erie provided 1,000,000 of the funny tribe, so to overcome this loss the eggs of fully 75,000 fish should be propagated each year. A three-pound whitefish yields ogo 30,000 eggs, but of these only 80 per cent, hatch, and only four per cent, of these reach maturity—that is, four years old. Last year the American and Canadian hatcheries propagated less than 200,000,000 fry, while the number of eggs in fish caught was 35,000,000,000. Forty years ago the catch of whitefish in the Detroit river on the American Side alone exceeded 1,000,000 pounds annually, while in later years the combined catch of both the American and Canadian sides only amount to 35,000 pounds. SETS WORLD SMOKING RECORD Gardener Pulls at Pipe One Hour and Fifty-three Minutes Without Stop. London. At the pipe smoking competition at the Brewers' exhibition in Islington the world's record for a nonstop smoke was broken by a Highgate gardener named Cattling, who kept an old briar root pipe alight an hour and 53 minutes. Each of the numerous competitors took his pipe and was supplied with an eighth of an ounce of tobacco, and at the word "Go" the matches were struck. Six seconds were allowed for lighting, and after that no re-lighting was allowed. The second place winner kept his pipe going an hour and 50 minutes and the third one an hour and 25 minutes. DONT'S FOR BADGER BARBERS. State Board of Wisconsin Mentions Some of them in Report. Madison, Wis.—"Don't put fingers in customer's mouth when shaving lips." "Don't breathe in customer's face after chewing or smoking tobacco, or after eating onions or garlic." "Don't play with dog or cat, then wait on customer without washing hands." "Don't ask personal questions." These are a few of the "dont's" incorporated in the yearly report of the state barber board. No prohibition is put on asking if the customer wants a massage. "Undertakers who charge for shaving corpses in this state will be prosecuted for a violation of the barber law," the report continues. The minimum fine for violation of the law is $25. The statute requires barbers to register and take an examination, for which a fee of one dollar is paid. "When barbers realize they are better off working in large shops, with good wages, than alone in the little stuffy-room of a 'dinky' shop, the profession will advance. Small shop business is demoralizing. The barber working in these little dinky shops loses interest in himself and his business." The report is to be made public and in pamphlet form is to be sent to all barbers in the state. BULLET IN HEART A YEAR. Case of Philadelphia Negro Ranks with Medical Marvels. Philadelphia.—By living one year with a 35-caliber bullet nestling in the apex of his heart. Frank Robinson a giant Germantown negro, has won a firm place in the ranks of the "medical marvels." Robinson was shot on September 6, 1905, by policeman Morley, in trying to escape arrest for shooting "craps." He was taken to the Germantown hospital, and the doctors, being unable to probe for the bullet, said he would die within a week. Showing superhuman strength, the negro, who then weighed 200 pounds, successfully withstood an attack of blood poisoning, and recovered. When his trial for assaulting Morley came up in May Judge von Moschzisker said Robinson had suffered enough, and gave him a sentence of 13 days, after serving which he was released. The doctors say Robinson will not live more than seven years with the bullet in his heart and, strange to say, the more the negro exerts himself, the better his chances of living out the limit. The bullet is now less than one-sixteenth of an inch from the walls of his chest, and if he allows himself to get any stouter the walls will press the bullet and he will die instantly. "I never knew what hard work was before I was shot," said Robinson. "But you can just bet I'm workin' hard, movin' furniture, every day now, and I'm goin' to try and get so thin that my chest won't never touch dat bullet I'm down to 150 pounds now." BURIED IN EMBERS 19 DAYS. Cat Found Alive by Men Repairing Burned Building. Portland. Ore.-F. E. Beach is mourning the tragic death of his cat that had outlived being buried for 19 days when his store was damaged by fire several months ago. The felline on that occasion had been buried in the charred debris and was found by workmen who were removing the charred timbers from the basement. Thinking the cat was dead the men threw the body on a pile of rubbish prepared for the garbage men. Soon after its limbs were seen to move. The cat was then placed in the sun that it might revive. It lay around in a comatose condition for several days. It was offered food, but partook of the milk very sparingly. Its hair had been singed off its body and its eyes were blinded by the fire, but it gradually exhibited signs of life. until Mr. Beach began to have hopes of its living. "Of course, the sight of a badly singed and blind cat around the store was not an inspiring one," Mr. Beach says, "but in the interests of science I wanted to demonstrate how much a cat could stand and live. One of my men, however, got tired of what he considered an eyesore around under his feet and he chopped its head with an ax." IF YOU WANT A PLACE To Bear ADVERTISE Go to HOLME'S Hotel 333 Vz. Ave. S. W. Fx The Best Afro-American Accommodation Bar Stocked with fine lines, Imported Brand and pure old Rye Whiskey Best Line Cigars Goo on 5 & toc and Lodging so. 75 & $1.00 Comfortably heated by steam. Give us a Call— JAMES OTTOWAY H LMES Prop Washington, D. C Louis J. Kessel, Importer of and Wholesale Dealer in WINES AND whiskies Le Owner of the..... ... Following Brands: Private Stock, Old Reserve, Hermit Oxford, Tremont 25 TENTH SREET. N. W. Telephone—Main—160 FRATERNAL I. O. N. I. C. of A., fraternal, meets at Lecompte, La., the second and third Tuesday nights in each month. R. E. Pickens, W. P. P. J. E. Dailey W. C. S. I. O. I. N. I. C. of A. F., No. 127 meets at its office, 608 Bolton street east, the first and third Monday nights in each month. Rev. S. T Shephard, worthy president. T. P Haywood, W. C. S. Ocite Weathers W. P. P. Golden Star Department of the I. O. N. I. C. of A. F., No. 248, meets at St. James, La., the first and third Saturday in each month. J. W Walker, W. P. P. Alex. Anoisan W. C. S. Eastern Star Department, No. 243 of the I. O. N. I. C. of A. F., meets at Darrow, La., the second and fourth Saturdays in each month. Leon Ba tise, W. P. P. M. Baptise, W. C. S. Dempsey Wilson, W. R. S. Lippman Department of the I. O. N. I. C. of A. F., No. 252, meets at Kings Ferry, Fla., the fourth Friday in each month. Jack Lippman, W. P. P. Loula Underwood, W. C. S. Western Star Department, No. 231 meets at Ennis, Tex., first and third Saturdays in each month Spencer Gary, W. P. P. C. C. Carlies, W. R. S. A. Cattle, W. C. S. Eagle's Wing Department, No. 27 meets at Ashville, Fla., the second and fourth Sundays in each month. G. B. Brown, W. P. L. D. Dixon, W. C. S. Elizabeth Department, I. O. N. of A. F., No. 53, meets at Chauncey Ga., on the first Saturday in each month. Rev. E. Adams, W. P. F. Peter Stanley, W. C. S. Department No. 136 meets at Baton Rouge, La., first and third Wednesdays night in each month. Jos. Newton, W. P. P. M B. Stewart, W. C. S. Fraternal Sunrise Department No. 17, meets at 60. Worth, Tex. the first and third Wednesdays in each month. R. R. Sloan, W. P. P.; Henry Henderson, W. P. P.; M. Mathew W. F. V. P.; I. B. Balenger, W. C. S. Sunrise Department, No. 31, meets at Dallas, Tex., second and fourth Thursday nights in each month. A R. Brown, W. P. P. S. A. N. Hamilton, W. P. Rebecca Carpenter, W R. S. Savannah Slaughter, W. C. S. Department No. 13 meets at Lake City, Fla., first and second Monday nights in each month. Joe Dorsey W. P. P. W. M. Pasco, W. F. V P. Giles Duncan, W. C. C. P Bartley, W. C. S. To all Departments of the I. O. N I. C. of A. Fraternal, the semi-annual pass word is ready for all Depart- ments. Send for it at once. See Ritual, page 13. I. L. Walton Evergreen Department, No. 240, meet at Red Fish, La, the 1st and 3rd Frid- day in each month. A. T. Finley, W. P. P.; Chas. Dupar, F. V. P.; A. T. Fin- ley, W. C. S. Harmony Department, No. 71 meet INVENTION OF A BOY IT MAY RE-OLUTIONIZE THE PRESENT TYPEWRITER. Virginia Youth Has Accomplished That Wich Has Puzzled Mechanical Experts for Many Years. Norfolk, Va.—The problem of an automatic carriage for the typewriter, one over which experts have been laboring and experimenting for years without success, has probably been solved by Robert Eugene Turner, a Norfolk boy, who is yet to reach his majority. That the invention, if practicable, is destined to revolutionize the modern typewriter, is the opinion of experts, men who have studied the problem for years. Years ago it was recognized that the invention of an automatic carriage return for the typewriter would add from 25 to 39 per cent to the speed of the operators—an item that tells in the business world. The manufacturers of the leading machines put experts on the problem. No stone was left unturned to solve the problem of the transference, redirection and control of power. It is said that one company offered a handsome prize to the man in their employ who would discover the principle, to be worked out later. Mr. Turner, who is a member of the architectural firm of Hebard & Turner, and who is a lover of mathematical problems and technical questions worthy of solution, had his attention drawn to the matter. At that time he was in his teens. He began to think out the problem, conveying his ideas to drawings. For three years he studied it at spare times, day and night. The young inventor grasped the difficulties clearly. He finally solved it, that of regulating the power at all times, controlling and reversing it at will. Briefly stated, the regulation and control of the power is by means of the space bar. It is unoperative automatically until the carriage has gone a certain length, but by means of a key it can be manipulated at the will of the operator. Like all valuable inventions, its simplicity is the thing that attracts attention. It can be added to machines at a nominal cost. It will not affect the durability of the machine, will not add to the cost of repairs, and is not easy to get out of order. Its speed is sufficient for all practical purposes The following statement in reference to the invention was made by Mr. Turner recently: "It increases the mechanical control of the carriage, making it unnecessary for the operator to remove his hands from the keyboard during writing, a feature especially valuable to touch operators. "The mechanism causes the carriage to return to the initial writing point automatically when the end of a written line is reached, and also to return automatically from any point in the line by pressing a special key. Means for cushioning the impact of the carriage to prevent a destructive jar to the machine is amply provided for, as well as an improvement in the runways and rollers bearing the carriage to reduce the friction to a minimum. "The momentum attained by the carriage in its return stroke is utilized to effect the line spacing, which can also be done from the keyboard. An ingenious but simple device is introduced, so that the setting of either the automatic or manual line spacer will adjust the other to conform in the uniform spacing of lines." An interesting feature in reference to the invention is the youthfulness of the inventor. When the application for the patent was filed nearly two years ago, or in February, of 1905, Mr. Turner was only a little over 18 years of age. As he began the study of the problem several years before this, his youthfulness can be appreciated. It was a mere boy who had undertaken to solve a serious scientific mathematical problem. Robert Eugene Turner was born in Norfolk November 26, 1886. He is the son of R. E. Turner, general superintendent of the Virginian Pilot. After leaving the Norfolk high school he devoted his time to the study of mechanical engineering and architecture. Mr. Turner was nearly two years in securing a patent on his invention, but it was finally obtained through Walter B. Burrow, patent attorney at Norfolk. Mr. Turner's friends are confident that he has a small fortune, to say the least, in his patent. School Gardens of Austria. It is stated that nearly 8,000 school gardens exist in Austria, not including the sister kingdom of Hungary. They are connected with both private and public and are used for purpos of practical instruction in hori- tiaries and fine grooming, and often entain botanical museums and beehives. Jer-salem Summer Resort. Jerusalem now has a summer resort at Ramahah, which is situated several hundred feet higher and commands a view of the Mediterranean. A new hotel has been built there for Europeans by an Arab. Most of the work of construction was done by women, whose wages are 11 cents a day. Chicago Man Arrested in Paris for Drawing Too Big Crowds. Paris.—An enterprising casus is living the evicted life Albert Nye Rouchton walked on stilts 250 rope, Asla and African expensive Mexican costume caballero hat of black hanging tassels, stairs buttons like saucers and by immeasurably long. Thus accounted for fortifications which surreptitiously compaired by crowds of armed ple, some of whom argued him for a supernatural being others regarded him as Many had followed him country villages. The fortifications arrested him text of disturbing the pub Police Prefect Lepine was and advised commu- American Consul General. He washed his hands of the ton then, on the advice of the lawyer, applied for a p- late as an advertisement tailor was found willing hand bills to distribute of protection from the po. Despite the permit tinue to arrest him as pears in public allegiances crowds follow him flinging stones. Roughton takes in He has had the same cities, notably Barcelona Johannesberg in South He says he lives in he excites, sees the world pretty good opinion of the races and countries, and of ly he is annoyed by the lack of authorities he has some times DISCOVERERS OF IRON RANGE Others Beside Edgar Brown Are Ex titled to Credit Ironwood, Mich.—The oars from Sault Ste. Marie announce the death there of Edgar Brown and coiling him with the "discovery of the Vern million and Mesaba in Minnesota, notwithstanding which he died penniless, are little erroreous in so far as the have to his alleged part in the opening of those wonderful ore-bearing distri Brown was conducting a boarding house at Two Harbors at the time the Duluth and Iron Range were built from the place to the Verizon fields in consequence of the discovery of ore there, and later he had a contract for mining ore at what is now the Duluth mine, near Brabuk, on the Mesaba. The Merritt brothers and David T. Adams, George G. Stone Martin Paterson, George Stunz and R. B. Whiteide were engineers on the Minnesota ranges, and was not until after their discoveries had led to the institution of development work that Brown put in an appearance. The part played by Brown was small at best. No property was controlled by him that but for the machinations" of John D. Rockefeller would have been turned over to Hill and associates" for $1 million in the Sault Ste. Marie county would have it. Neither Rockefeller no longer became interested in mining property in the Minnesota ranges until some years after the discovery of ore WOOED IN AUTOMOBILE Norwegian Naval Officer Wins Gr This Country. Bridgeport, Conn.—Johann S. Storz, who gave up a commission, is the lieutenant in the Norwegian navy, to accept a place as mechard at the Blue Ribbon garage in the order to be near the girl of someone Miss May Esther Bedford married her. The bride is the second daughter of Edward T. Bedford, a president of the Standard On company, and is an enthusiastic aromaticist. The wedding was the celebration of a meeting two years ago and a romantic courtship, carried on by means of the big touring automobile which Miss Bedford drove and in which Mr. and Mrs. Storz started on their honeymoon. Performed at the P. C. Summer home in Greens Farms. The summer was very simple. The man was attended by her two sons, Miss Emily H. Bedford and Miss M. Bedford. The Rev. C. P. Shaver of the Greens Farms Council, on behalf officiated. There was no business the one selected for that office about A. S. Dehill, of the Norwegian navy, having been unable to come to this country. Mr. Schlott, whose energy and skill won him a promotion as secretary of the Blue Ribbon company, less than five months after he went to work, will live with his bride at No. 11 Park place, in a handsome given them by Mr. Bedford. Superstition Rife. "Maglanism, rosterianism, geneticism, occultism, together with Mosaic and Hermetic societies, are flourishing in this country and Europe. Packets, kicks of hair wands, vagaries, fakes and mental states due to these are on all sides. How can mental physicians keep up with the new brain diseases? 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Contains a world of useful info URE-PROOF TIRE e $8.50 per pair. price $4.75 all sale only NAILS, TACKS OR GLASS WON'T LET OUT THE AIR ABLE from PUNCTURES DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED California & Imported Wines AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 1252 H St. N.E. Cor.13th. Parker, Bridget & Co. AND PENNTYLVANIA AVENUE, NORTHWEST EAD-TO-FOOT OUTFITTERS ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS DO NOT equipment, sundry big free Sundry C PUNCTURE-PROOF Regular price $8.50 per pair. To Introduce we will Sell You a Sample Pair for Only 4.75 NAILS, TACKS OR GLASS WON'T LET OUT THE AIR NO MORE TROUBLE from PUNCTURES Result of 15 years experience in tire making. No danger from THORNS, OAOTUS, NAILS, TACKS or GLASS. Serious problems, like intentional knife cuts, can be vulcanized like any other tire. 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Brown-Foster Training School For Domestic Servi- tors 7th Street N. W. Send for Catalogue "T." showing all kinds and makes of tires at $2.00 per pair and up also Coaster-Brakes, Built-up Wheels and Bicycles—Sundries at Half the usual prices. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D." This tire will outlast any other make—Soft, Elastic and Easy Riding. We will ship C. O. D. ON APPROVAL AND EXAMINATION without a cent deposit. We will allow a cash discount of 5% (thereby making the price $4.50 per pair) if you send full cash with order. Tires to be returned at our expense if not satisfactory on examination. MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept. "J.L." CHICAGO, ILL. The attention of the public is cordially invited to the Browne-Foster Training School For Domestic Science Trained and Reliable Servants Furnished Best Situations for the highest Wages. J. H. Foster J. H. Foster 夕 EASY RIDING, STRONG, DURABLE, SELF HEALING FULLY COVERED BY PATENTS BEWARE OF IMITATIONS tires at $2.00 per pair and up at Half the usual price. B" and "D." This use will ship C. G. D. ON APPROVAL the price $4.50 per pair) if you expense if not satisfactory on CHICAGO, ILL. encement HOUR invited to the domestic Science Phone Connection rnished LEGAL NOTICES SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding Probate Court. Estate of Sealma Thurston deceased. No. 13949. Administration Docket 35. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased and for letters of administration c.t.a. on said estate by Mary E. McIntosh it is ordered this 5th day of November A.D. 1906 that George, M. Thurston and Frank L. Thurston and all others concerned appear in said Court on Tuesday the 11th day of December A.D. 1906 at 10 o'clock A.M. to show cause why such application shall not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and The Bee once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned—the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. Harry M. Clabaugh Chief Justice. Attest: James Tauner Register of Wills for the District of Columbia Clerk of Probate Court. Read what R. H. Boyd, D.D., LL.D., and The, National Baptist Convention have done. A blood-thrilling story, stranger than fiction. Started a few years ago with one little writing table, a 5c. bottle of ink, three writing pens, and a 3c. tablet. Last year did a $125,000 worth of business. This great ten-year history is told in the November number of the McGirt's Magazine. Dear Friend:—The November number of the McGirl's Magazine is a great "National Baptist Publishing House Number." One of the greatest issues that I have yet published. Besides the regular features of the magazine, this number contains the "History of the National Baptist Publishing House, covering a scope of ten years, with more than thirty illustrations." You will see more than twenty well-furnished offices, showing, showing the different managers, clerks, typewriters and stenographers, typesetters, bookkeepers, printers and binders; in short, the vast host of 300 colored men, women, boys and girls employed in three great buildings owned out and out by negroes. To see this work will cause the blood to course rapidly through your veins. No one who has never seen this great establishment can imagine that any body of colored people is doing so much business as is illustrated in this great number. To read about a company that receives each day more than three thousand letters, and spent for stamps last year more than fourteen thousand dollars is a treat that every member of the colored race should avail himself of. This is too great to describe by words, and you will have to read this ten-year history to really have any idea of this great establishment, known as the "National Baptist Publishing House." This magazine is an illustrated monthly that has been published for the last four years. It has come out regularly every month. In these four years we have not published a number so fascinating in character and comprehensive in scope. In this same issue you will find an article. entitled "Shall Lynching Be Suppressed, and How?" by Winthrop D. Sheldo, LLD., of Girard College, Philadelphia, Pa. I give you my word this is the strongest article that I have ever read. The number contains sixty pages. Subscription price to the magazine is $1.00 per year. SPECIAL OFFER. To any person who will send one dollar we will send the magazine for one year and will make him a present of four copies of this great November number. These four copies you can sell and make yourself a present of the money. SPECIAL OFFER TO AGENTS. To any person sending one dollar we will send 15 copies of this "National Baptist Publishing House Number." These copies can be sold as fast as they can be handed out. We request every preacher, Sunday school teacher, president of Young People's Society, to send at least one dollar for fifteen of these copies to sell among their people. This issue will awaken the people as they have not before been awakened to the great progress of the colored race. Send all orders and money to James E. McGirt, 420 South Eleventh street, Philadelphia, Pa. In ordering more than fifteen copies you can have the magazines for 7 cents each. Single copy, 15 cents; $5.00 per 100 cash. MACKEY'S STATEMENT RE- factory to the committee. FUTED.9 In a speech before a jury in Alexandria, Va., last week, Attorney Crandall Mackey, in the trial of a colored man charged with an alleged assault upon a white woman at Luna Park in August, said, among other things, as follows: "Gentlemen, you live contiguous to a great city.. This county is next to a city with the largest negro population in the world. A city noted for its criminality. So noted for criminality that one of the Commissioners of the city produced statistics to show there Columbia Ice and Coal Co. FIFTH AND L STS., N. W., NEAR K ST. MARKET. WOOD AND COAL UNDER COVER. OUR COAL IS GLEAN, AND WE SELL CHEAP. REDUCTION ON COAL FOR CHURCHES. FILE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, AND WE WILL DO THE REST. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILL-ED. LEAVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AND TELL US THE KIND OF COAL YOU WANT. COLUMBIA COAL AND ICE COMPANY. RACES AUTUMN MEETING, WASH INGTON JOCKEY CLUB, NOVEMBER 16 TO DECEMBER 1. SIX RACES DAILY. FIRST RA CE, 2 P. M. ADMISSION TO GRAND ST AND, $2.00: PADDOCK, 50c EXTRA. L ADIES, $1.00. SEASON GRAND ST AND PADDOCK BADGES ON SALE AT DROOP'S, 925 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE N. W. AND S. T. WALTON, LENMAN BUILDING, 1425 N. Y. AVENUE N. W., ROOM 103. SEASON AND CLUB HOUSE BADGES FOR SALE BY S. T. WALTON., LENMAN BLDG., 1425 NEW YORK AVENUE N. W., ROOM 103. 'PHONE, MAIN 2992. N. B.-OBJECTIONABLE CHARACTERS POSITIVELY EXCLUDED. was more crinje in that city than in any other in the United States. For this the Commissioner was removed from office. This prisoner, gentlemen, is one of those Washington negroes. This is the first case of its kind ever tried here." A committee was appointed, of which Mr. W. Calvin Chase was chairman, to wait upon President McKinley. The reception was very cordial, and be assured us, after we had presented to him the report of Mr. Wight's testimony before the House committee, the President assured the committee that he would remove the Commission. The colored man's identity is just as flimsy as the statement of Mackey before the jury that convicted the alleged assailant. DEATH OF HENRY MONROE DEATH OF OWN MONROE, Henry Monroe was born in Virginia more than seventy years ago. He came to this city at the close of the war and was employed in Willard's Hotel, where he remained for many years. It was a pleasure to hear him describe the great men he had waited on while employed at Willard's. He was appointed sexton at Harmony Cemetery, where he also remained for a long time. He resigned this position in 1800, and worked in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing up to a few years of his death. He died Saturday night, November 11, surrounded by his faithful wife and children, and thus, undimmed by a single unworthy act, in every word and thought of his spotless life, he neared the golden shore. "Mark the perfect man and hold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." DEFEND NEGRO TROOPS President's Action Disgussed by Colored Pastors SAY THE ENCEEDED AUTHORITY Re: Dr. Drew Declares Some of the Soldiers Dismissed Without Honor Saved Mr. Roosevelt's Life at San Juan Hill.—Iks Congregation to Suspend Judgment Until President Returns. "The Good Soldier" was the subject of a sermon delivered at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, colored, O street between Seventh and Lighth streets, by the pastor, Rev. Simon P. W. Drew. Many colored soldiers were present. The speaker said that the President in discussing the soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry had exceeded his authority, and that his action was without precedent. The pastor urged his congregation to suspend judgment in the case until the return of Mr. Roosevelt from Panama. In concluding his sermon the preacher praised the good work of the 10th Cavalry at San Juan Hill, and declared that a number of the soldiers dismissed in disgrace by the President formerly belonged to the famous negro regiment. He said, "During the two days' fighting before Santiago an American lieutenant saw a colored trooper from the Tenth Cavalry fighting by the side of the white soldiers. When the lieutenant asked the colored man why he was there he replied, 'I have lost my command, and so, if you will, sir, I would like to fight in your company.' The permission was given. That night, when the fighting was over the colored soldier asked the officer in command to give him a note to the captain of his company, certifying that he had been in battle and not skulking in the rear. "Next day, going over the field, the same lieutenant found, among the dead and wounded, the same colored trooper, mortally wounded. The soldier whispered to the officer that he had a message to convey. The lieutenant, bending over the form of the dying man, listened, and heard these words, "Take IT HAS BEEN HEADQUARTERS OF THE CLERGY AND BUSINESS MEN FOR THREE AND ONE-HALF YEARS SALADS, OYSTERS AND CHOPS A SPECIALTY. CHOPS A SPECIALTY. ' REGULAR DINNER 6 TO 8 P.M., 35C.; SUNDAYS, 1 TO 8 P.M., 45C. OPEN FROM 7.30 A.M. to 12 P.M. BENJ. F. THOMAS, PROP. Ladies—If you want better and longer hair, go at once to your drug store and ask your druggist to get you a box of Taylor's Hair Grower and Dandruff Cure (pomade). Price 25 cents. Made by Taylor Remedy Co., Louisville, Ky. Agents wanted everywhere; $2 to $5 per day. Write at once for particulars. You can salt mineral well with foreign or fictitious ore; with an oil well it is impossible. There can be no fake The Hamilton Oil is high grade Office. 1011 New York avenue ROOMS FOR RENT Large, comfortable furnished rooms for either ladies or gentlemen. 1207 K street northwest. ADVERTISERS. Now is the time to advertise in The Bee. Those who desire to appear in the special Thanksgiving edition will send in their matter at once. this note and give it to the captain of L Troop, Tenth Cavalry, Lawton's Division, and tell him that I tried to report to my company and could not find him. Give him that paper, and tell him that Williamson was not a coward." Want Fair Treatment After reciting this real story of the war, the speaker added— "Has the President forgotten this? Has he forgotten that the same soldier saved his life at San Juan Hill, and made it possible for him to be the Chief Executive of the nation today? Will he disgrace them forever? I do not believe that our President will." Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, D.D., Ph.D., president of the National Negro Baptist Evangelistical Convention of America and the Board of Managers of the said convention met last Menday and drafted resolutions which will be read Sunday November 25, at 8 p.m., to protest agains the dishonorable discharge of the colored troops. A committee will also be appointed to lay before President Roosevelt on his return home, Monday, November 26, these resolutions. In the Vanderbilt plot in Greenwood Cemetery, New York, is buried Mrs. Jane Williams beside her late friend and mistress, Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt, the authoress. Mrs. Williams was born 1823, a slave. Deputy collectors of internal revenue will in the future be appointed through a civil service examination. Order issued by the President, November 7. Read The Bee. au 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 M 774. ```markdown ``` Established 1866 BURNSTINE LOAN JFICE. Gold and silver watches, mamonds, jewelry, guns, mechanical tools. ladies' and gent's wearing apparel. Old gold and silver bought. Unredeemed pledges for sale. 361 Pennsylvania Ave. N. W. MONEY. 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