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VOL. XXVI NO. 51 OPEN LETTER Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. President:— Your candidate, Mr. Taft, wants the rule thing or nothing. I have never in the history of this government president who would use the patronage the government to satisfy his ambitions designs. This is a republic and people are supposed to rule and not man. You want to know how the red people feel? Do you know that colored voter in this country in to go down with the Senator from I assure you, sir, that Senator will not be deserted and neither the American people tolerate executionerence. Senator Foraker has never lost a batther in a political contest or upon field of battle when the destiny of Republic was in the balance of them oligarchy. He has been faithiid loyal to you. At a time when needed a friend Hon. Joseph Ben Foraker was battling for you against man who would have been President, the call of God commanded him to down his arms. You have allied self with the Democratic party, and have made Democratic referees in South over loyal Republicans. Do think that the colored Americans desert a man who is defending Be not deceived, Mr. President; imagine that you are able to crush every man in the Republican party he doesn't agree with you. You gone after Uncle Joe Cannon of Illinois, haven't you? Let me give you this little pointer: You will lose Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Missouri, Maryland and Illinois. If Senator Foraker, who has never announced himself a Presidential candidate, is not nominated, Vice-President Fairbanks will be the nominee of the party. These states will control the next convention. "Upon what meat doth Taft feel that he has grown so great?" He has never elected to an office in his life. The Secretary ought to take the advice of his either half and not allow his ambition run away with his reason. Suppose you carried a solid delegation to the convention for Mr. Taft, would that assume his nomination? By no means. there will be men in the convention who will have the nerve to speak and There will be several colored delegates in the convention, Mr. President, who will know how to vote. You will have an expression from the colored voters shortly and then you will know how they stand. How did you like the colored vote of Maryland last I hat sentiment prevails through the country, Mr. President. We all feel that way and it will emphasized at the proper time. I was told the other way that you had done so much for the Negro. I have failed to see it, Mr. President. You have boasted that you are done less than any other President. You don't put much confidence in the celebration of John Temple Graves, do you? He has declared for Mr. Bryan, now you know. I was amused to see an Tillman sit upon the platform with Mr. Bryan. Of course you know Mr. Bryan will be the nominee of the Democratic party. You ought to run on the Republican ticket and your strength. You haven't much faith in civil service, like you. The reason I say so is because you never follow it. I become very much amused when you say that you want a clean man for office. If you watched the world over you could not be picked out a worse crowd. Many of your appointees want to make a record the moment you appoint them. Many of them don't mean it. They know that you are a sensationalist. If I told Mr. Rockefeller's money, Mr. President, there would be something doing politics. I would not deal in stocks. I would put that money where I could draw it whenever I needed it. What do you think of the Ohio situation now? Just watch Senators Foraker and Dick and see what will be done. Ohio will never go for Mr. Taft if the colored vote counts for anything at all. I see you have made no change in your executive departments. There is a great deal of prejudice and discrimination. I continues to grow. Don't you deceive your self. The American people will speak at the proper time. You have done the colored people more harm than any man who has occupied the executive chair. Believe me to be THE EDITOR GRO BAPTISTS AT JAMES- TOWN EXPOSITION. THE WASHINGTON tional Baptist Publishing Board, which is under the direct control of the National Baptist Convention. located in this city, will have a special exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition. This institution is the largest printing plant and book-binding establishment owned and operated by Negroes in the world. They new occupy six buildings, as follows: three two-story, four two-story, and two one-story buildings, situated at the corner of Locust and Second avenue, North. They employ several hundred skilled workmen, and can produce everything in the printing line, from a calling card to an encyclopedia. The founder of this institution, Rev. R. H. Boyd, D.D. LL.D., who is at present secretary, treasurer and manager, will be at the Exposition Grounds in Norfolk this week to arrange for the big exhibit. The display to be made by this stupendous publishing plant will be the official exhibit of the Negro Baptists of the United States, numbering something over 2,300,000. The institution is only eleven years old, yet last year's business amounted up to and over $152,000. They propose to show the high-class books and periodical work that has been made by their employees, and to demonstrate through a tangible exhibit the marvelous progress of the race in the higher realms of the "art preservative of all arts." OHIO FOR FORAKER. Colored Republicans Don't Want Taft Columbus, Ohio, May 15. — Senator Foraker's friends in the state central committee thwarted a plan of the Taft organization yesterday to secure from that committee what they expected to present to the country as an endorsement of Taft for the presidential nomination. Chairman Brown hesitated to call off the meeting of his committee for nearly twenty-four hours after Senator Dick had cancelled the call for the proposed conference, and in the meantime the Taft organization was actively sounding the members of the state central committee to ascertain whether they would stand for a meeting for the single purpose of indorsing Secretary Taft for the Presidency. The members of the committee would all vote for the indorsement of Secretary Taft for the Presidency, it was found, but many of them insisted that it must be accompanied by a resolution indorsing Senator Foraker for re-election to the Senate. Taft Scheme Bcaten. When they found that the latter was not on the program, the friends of Senator Foraker announced their intention of remaining away, thus making it, clear that the proposition of the Taft, organization could not be put through unanimously, if at all. A meeting of prominent colored Republicans of the State is being held here today under the call of Editor H. C. Smith of the Cleveland Gazette to take action in behalf of Senator Foraker. Mr. Smith gave out the following statement of the object of the meeting this morning: "1. To insist upon being consulted by the leaders of the Republican party before the indorsement of any Republican candidates for the Presidential nomination. Negrocs Against Taft. "2. To express our most emphatic opposition to the indorsement of Secretary Taft for any position within the gift of the people, because of Taft's indorsement of disfranchisement in the South and his unreasonable efforts to fasten the alleged Brownsville (Texas) crime upon the black battalion, and through them upon their entire race. "3. To insist upon an indorsement of Senator Foraker for any position he may seek. Members of the conference are determined that the Republicans of Ohio shall understand thoroughly that they are in possession of no power great enough to bring about the support of the 40,000 negro voters of Ohio." A permanent organization will be effected. The conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church was convened in the Galbraith Church Wednesday morning with Bishop J. W. Clinton presiding. The church presented a beautiful appearance. Everything was new. Indeed, Galbraith was in her new dress from head to foot. Dr. S. L. Corrothers and his faithful church members gave the bishops and pastors a royal reception. The opening address of Bishop Clinton was full of encouragement. Full particulars of the conference will appear in The Bee next week. ONE CENT.11 W. H. H. Hart, who sued the railroad company, was given a verdict last week for one cent damages. This is the end of the celebrated case. What I Saw And Heard PARAGRAPHIC M. H. HON WM, WARNER, AGAINST THE NEGRO I believe the people in this city are learning some sense. There seems to be more unity of action in business affairs. I notice whenever a white preacher is behind the colored brother he seems to work more, and indeed harder. There is a lull in school affairs. The Cardozo appeal was argued last week. The Court of Appeals will hand down its decision in a few weeks no doubt. There are to be some changes in the public schools shortly. Just what they will be I am at a loss to state. The head of the colored normal school will be transferred I am told, and no doubt several other important changes will be made in other departments. Well, the school agitators are quiet now. I am told that they have decided to take a rest until next winter. I don't see why the judges of the courts should appoint the Board of Education. There are several ministers in the city and by next week the city will be lively HON WM. WARNER, A with the A. M. E. Zion members. I am very much pleased with the president of Howard University. He is an accomplished gentleman. I am anxious to see my dear and old friend Prof. H. M. Brown return to his home. It is so strange that our best educators are compelled to leave their homes and seek employment elsewhere. I met my genial friend Wm. Mayes a few days ago. He was not so well. I am pleased to learn, however, that his sickness was not serious. I must congratulate my friend Mr. Jerome A. Johnson, president of the Men's Club of St. Luke's Church. This is one of the most interesting organizations in the city. The solid men of Washington belong to this club. I understand that Mr. Charles H. Peters is dangerously ill at his home on 11th street. I hope that he will recover sooner. FAIRPLAY. WHAT ARMSTRONG IS DOING. Two of the graduates of the Armstrong Manual Training School, who recently passed the Board of Steam Engineers has won for themselves responsible positions. John Gaines, a son of the janitor of the Summer School, is night engineer of the heat power elevator and lighting plant of the Savoy Apartment House at the head of 14th street, one of the largest flat buildings in the city. Benjamin Mahoney, a former student of Hampton who received his training as engineer at Armstrong, has won the position of engineer in charge of the largest preparatory high school in the city of Greater Pittsburg, where he has supervision over five assistants. The young men reflect in high degree the excellent training received at the hands of David Floyd Monroe, Chief Engineer at Armstrong, who with Prof. J. D. Baltimore holds the highest class of marine and electrical engineer's license of any colored man in the city. READ THE BEE. The Macon, Ga., Dispatch makes mention of the Troy steam laundry of Macon, whose manager, Mr. Crosby, says he employs "55 persons of whom 40 are colored." This is a sample of the preference in Macon, Ga. No such heading as the following, "Clerks must accept their colored chief" should be found on the page of any American paper. Hon John P. Green delivered a lecture last Thursday evening at Cory M. E. Church, Chicago, his subject being "Dunbar," of whom he was an intimate friend. Bishop Smith pays a high tribute to the dark-skinned people of Texas, and thinks that they are solving their own problem. Miss Nora Hyman, one of our teachers, attended the kindergarten lectures at Columbia, New York, last week. AGAINST THE NEGRO Mr. Herbert Hayden, the central figure in a murder trial in North Madison, Conn., in 1879, died at the age of 57 at his home, New Haven, Conn., last Monday morning. The Brownsville investigation was resumed last Tuesday. There was a number of witnesses. The school commissioners of Frederick County, Md., will ask the state to appropriate $1,500 to establish an industrial school for the colored children of Frederick City. Of course Baltimore, Md., is proud of all her councilmen, including Harry S. Cummings, who is a dark-skinned member. Rev. J. M. Connor, who is stationed at Ft. Smith, Ark., is a candidate for Bishop in his connection, the A. M. E. Church. The commencement week at Biddle University, will begin May 26 and end June 3. The Rock Hill Messenger has been expecting The Bee to fight the Jamestown Exposition. So well, so good. About twenty years ago the Hotel Men's Association met here and last Monday they met here again in the 28th annual convention. The board of embalming of New Jersey reports that women are failures as embalmers because at a practical test each one of twenty women fainted when the incision in a dead body was made to get hold of an artery into which the fluid was to be injected. Mr. Tillman says that the President is anxious for another term, and that the Taft boom has not gone much further than the executive mansion. Miss Sarah J. Johnson, one of the best teachers of Charleston, N. C., was married on the 2d of this month to Rev. George Carson, a leading minister in the Catawba Presbytery. Last Sunday was a day of thanksgiving by over 200,000 men and women of the "Peculiar People" connected with the U. O. of Odd Fellows in America. Now is the time to join the I. O. of St. Luke, for it is one of the best organ- ations we have. See the advertisement. Register Vernon will lecture for the Rev G. H. Schieffer, June 17, in his church, Bethe A. M. E., Indianapolis, Ind. The question put in a leading article in the Indianapolis World is, "Has the most Republican ship of this country lost its Anchor?" From report, many lost their lives in the train wreck near Honda, Cal. The Southern Workman for the month of May contains many spicy articles. The Lowell expedition to the Andes mountains for the purpose of photographing the canals and markings upon the planet Mars, sailed from New York for Colon on the steamship Panama, last Saturday. King Victor Emmanuel, while visiting the international art exhibition at Venice last week, admired the American artists' work. Mrs. Vaughn, one of the agents of The Reporter, Birmingham, Ala., is reported as having been seriously hurt while riding on a trolley car last week, in that city. We hope for her a speedy recovery. It is stated that a colored Y. M. C. A. building is being built at a cost of $200,000; out of this amount the colored people of that city raised $1,000, the rest being donated. Of all the commencement exercises ever held at Walden University, Tenn., the one that was held during the past week was considered the best. Cleveland G. Allen, colored, won the first place in class work at the closing of the year's work at the New York Evening School, New York. Mr. Gilchrist Stewart of New York addressed a large audience at the Lyric in Baltimore, Md., last week. His subject was "The Negro Soldiers." The Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Cordelle, Ga., is said to be one of the most enterprising companies in that city. The commencement exercises of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., will begin the 26th of this month. Another naval delegation from the Jamestown exposition arrived in this city last Tuesday afternoon, as the guests of the government of the United States. The Philadelphia and Baltimore annual conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church convened in the main auditorium of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, this city, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. last Tuesday. The friends and admirers of Hon. H. P. Cheatham of Littleton, N. G., are anxious for him to remain in the lead of affairs of general interest. Rev. Wilbur P. Thirkield, D.D., President of Howard University, has been asked to deliver addresses at some of the leading schools. Some people say that Mr. Tillman is not sane. Don't you think it; he is as sane as any living man, but he has his own way of doing and saying great little things. Hon. J. W. Lyons made the graduating address at Haines School, Ga. At the State Bar Association Banquet May 8, Vicksburg, Miss., Hon. Leroy Percy of Greenville, Miss, responded to the toast, "Our Country." His address was brilliant and enthusiastically received. For a time the Jamestown Exposition was absorbed by the advent of a royal heir to the throne of Spain. All association of one thousand young men in Chicago have formed an organization to be known as "An Economy League." It is the wish of the many friends of Hon. Robert Small that his restoration to health may be speedy. MR. J. A. LANKFORD IN NORFOLK AND RICHMOND, VA. Mr. J. A. Lankford was in Norfolk Monday and Tuesday of this week. He was there to look after the construction of St. John's A. M. E. Church parsonage, which is now under construction, and to present to the Queen Street Baptist Church plans for their new parsonage, which plans were unanimously accepted by the board. He was in Richmond on Wednesday and Thursday, looking after the large flats and residence of Dr. W. L. Taylor, president of the True Reformers, also to meet the building committee of the Southern Aid. While in Richmond he presented to Lawyer J. C. Robinson, attorney for the True Reformers, plans for a large twelve-room brick residence and one two-story brick flat, also plans for a large stable, carriage and automobile house for Dr. W. L. Taylor. The G. U. O. of O. F. of the District of Columbia had their annual sermon preached to them last Sunday at the Metropolitan Church, M street between 15th and 16th streets, N. W. There was a large number out. VIRGINIAREPUBLICANS DEMAND FOR LAWYER JONES. Petersburg, Va., May 15, 1907. Editor of The Bee:— The coming of Attorney Thomas L. Jones will be hailed with delight by the white and colored Republicans of Virginia. There is no young man better known and appreciated by the Republicans of Virginia. The great campaign he made in this district several years ago electrified the Republican party. The Republicans want such a leader in the State. The first meeting that will be addressed by Attorney Jones will be in the city of Petersburg. The largest hall in the city has been engaged and every preparation has been made to give him a royal reception. After Attorney Jones' speech here he will address the Republicans of Farmville. It is claimed that this will be one of the largest gatherings of Republicans that has ever been held in this historic place. This young Republican has lots of followers and admirers here who are anxious to have him to represent them in the next National Republican Convention. This is a Foraker meeting that is to be addressed by Attorney Jones. Senator Foraker is very strong here and it is confidently stated that none but Foraker delegates can be elected. Thomas L. Jones is a native Virginian, and having been brought up here and educated in Washington, his friends and admirers feel proud of him. The meeting that will be held here is looked forward to with pleasure and gratification. REGISTER VERNON IN BOSTON. Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury, went to Boston last week where he spoke on the night of the 8th at the Charles Street Church, subject, "The Negro in America," to a crowded house. Reports of his address in the Boston Guardian and the dailies indicate that he made a very fine impression upon Boston. All the papers ran his cut and gave quite an elaborate "write up" of his speech. The first day the Register and Dr. R. C. Ransom went sight seeing, visiting Faneuil Hall, the Attucks monument and Bunker Hill, together with many other points of great historic interest. Visiting Governor Curtis Guild, he had a very interesting interview with him, and sound the Governor to be a very pleasant gentleman. He lunched with Drs. Courtney and Roberts, the latter being a member of the Common Council. He also visited the legislature, and was the guest of the speaker of the House and the President of the Senate while the houses were in session. He had a very interesting chat with Sergeant Carney the famous old hero of the civil war, who became reminiscent, and related many interesting events of the great war in which he played such A banquet was tendered him by the citizens at Young's Hotel, one of the leading hostelries of the city, Mr. Forbes acting as toastmaster. Mayor Fitzgerald was present and spoke, inviting the Register to return to the city at some time in the future as its guest. Altogether the Register is much pleased with Boston and its very courteous and hospitable people. NEGROES OR CHINESE WANTED AS TENANTS. Flatbush Property Owner Takes Means to Get Even with Real Estate Agents. New York, May 7. Angered by the hustling ability of other owners of real estate who have rented their property in Linden avenue, Flatbush, and saying his prospective tenants were taken away from him by unfair means, C. H. Luersen, who controls a house at No. 259 Linden avenue, yesterday caused consternation in the street by the following sign hung in the windows: "Apartments to Let The block is one in which there are many private houses owned by the occupants and the apartments are of high grade. There is only one tenant in the Luerssen house, David G. Brown. When Mr Brown saw the sign he declared unless it was removed he would leave the house at once. A majority of the tenants of No. 261 say they will move, and real estate dealers and agents fear an invasion of Negroes into Flatbush. The real estate agent who had the keys of the house sent them to Luerssen as soon as he saw the sign. Luerssen is a policeman attached to the Snyder street station. He is reported to have declared that he would rent the property to a Chinese if he did not get Negro tenants. READ THE BEE. 1. Dear lit - tle terd, why didst thou stray from thy safe haunts so far a - way, 2. Didst think perchance that thou couldst learn Some tender trill, some happy turn Didst hear the or - gan's mighty tone And chanting, voices loud and sweet? And Some joyous and ex - ult - ant strain? Or didst thou fancy thou couldst rise On deemed the music lacked thine own clear pip - ing note to be complete, Or left - ty waves of sound, and gain the bliss - ful heights of pa - ra - dise, Up KANSAS JUSTICE HOLDS COURT IN BLACKSMITH SHOP. Lawyers Strictly Barred from Place Unique Jurist Is Six Feet Seven Inches Tall—Weighs Near ly 500 Pounds. No Stropping, No Honing Set consists of 12 double-edged blades (24 keen cutting edges) with triple silver-plated holder in velvet lined case. 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One of the peculiarities of this remarkable man is the fact that he does not permit lawyers to practice in his court. "As a peace officer," philosophizes Justice Jacques, "my first duty, as I see it, is to promote peace, and as lawyers and peace are not mixable quantities, I have barred the lawyers in the interest of peace." Justice Jacques has for a long while been the village blacksmith and horse-shoeer at Elmont, and his phenomenal strength enables him, when occasion requires, to conquer the most refractory horse by throwing him to the floor and sitting on him while an asistant nails on the shoes. Men of collegiate education are seldom found A. jacques is an excepflon to the rule, for he is highly educated. He is an omniverous reader, devoting the greater part of his leisure to high-class literature, and he has written several important articles on social and industrial topics. Mr. Jacques was not a candidate for the office which he now holds, but was drafted by the people of his township in a nonpartisan movement, and his election was unanimous. For some time there had been more or less petty litigation of a neighborhood character in Elmont, and as a matter of civic pride some of the leading citizens started a boom for Jacques, believing that he would be able to wield a peaceful influence and promote the community spirit. He took charge of the office January 1 this year, and since that time he has amiably adjusted several local feuds of long standing. On the dingy walls of the combined blacksmith shop and courtroom there are several placards bearing significant inscriptions. One of these reads: LET US HAVE PEACE. And another one, still more to the point, is as follows: NO LAWYERS PERMITTED IN THIS COURT. THE BEL- LOWS FURNISH WIND. "I don't expect to make any money out of this office," Mr. Jacques said to his constituents at the time of his election, "therefore I cannot afford to rent a courtroom. I will hold court in my shop whenever a session is necessary, and people who have troubles to adjust are welcome to call at any time—cordially welcome, so long as they do not bring a lawyer with them." When a dispute is to be settled it is the custom of Justice Jacques to let each party to the trouble relate in an informal way his side of the story. Meanwhile, he incidentally stands between them to nip in the bud any signs of rising temper. When he has heard both versions he analyzes the situation and suggests such terms of adjustment as to him appears fair. Nine times out of ten, littigans are satisfied with the Jacques method of settlement, and even though they may have come before the blacksmith jurist as enemies, they leave as brothers Justice Jacques is long on mirth, and is much given to harmless foking. In Topeka a few days ago he met a young lawyer friend, recently admitted to the bar, and invited him to visit his court. "But," responded the lawyer, "I thought you did not allow lawyers to appear in your court." "Just so," Jacques solemnly replied, "but I see no reason why that rule should apply to you." ED.*PINAUD'S HAIR TONIC (EAU DE QUININE) Ask your dealer for ED. PINAUD'S HAIR TONIC and LILAC VEGETAL THIS OFFER WILL INTEREST YOU! The New York Age We desire the names of 30,000 persons on our subscription books before June 1, 1907. To get them we are planning a special campaign throughout New York City and the Country. To begin with, we offer ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) in GOLD, divided into Four Prizes of $50.00, $25.00, $15.00 and $10.00, each, to the persons sending the largest number of new subscribers to The Age, before May 1, 1907, when the prizes will be awarded. 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Address, THE NEW YORK AGE 4 CEDAR STREET NEW YORK CITY Si AMMT HUNTER Over Two Hundred ws to His Credit. ‘ienteaf Davis, “the ,¢nd.” Ras killed more Gavis has held the . 2 killed, the most an im }.atne for more nd though be is now ane and beat from ~ asom passes with- +, one to five bears to as soung,” says he, “fat tost ag thick along the : ues on the slopes of +n ag red squirrels are + fail, after the early the beechnuts, I could i, aged smeotb-bore gun or three most any day. father weed to call us nm» up a@ bear hunt to se «es meat for roasting ' ner Sometimes the + 4 week, and sometimes + never quit until we « carcasses of from six = vhen Tippecanoe ran + @ was no railroad mules of where we atvone had told us . ped beef coming n “efrigerator cars ees ae gy ee va ach C Bers. 4 METS / and $9 a Be ACA Ee . by sh st Gi iS, Ko yaa oS PLM A ees SE Wie ah DP BS ww wh 32) a Bs S) SA Ae? ‘i hls. 4 ith ris Bj ae a RS as 3s! 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New French Idea Taken Up by Amer Ieans. New York.—Spring weddings have this year an element of novelty so, far as the presents are concerned, which the talent of a French medallist now in New York lias made possible. The wedding medal has just been put on the market by a firm of jewelers, and at many of the spring marriages = gH ANOR * ae JA Bauer 2A He W . 4 ni Am a oy x oe of GA) ‘ Re @ NS \ a¥ oe Wee Sao. Slee 7 b NRTASE fe Nees . SOV VEN . ® MARIAGE: (22 _CONTRACTE fie PARLESEPOVX Bye ee r Ry = “QROSAERITE | ee, As NSE, SE etE Latest Wedding Novelty. there has been seen such a gift on the table of presents. It is usually given by the biidegroom to the bride or by the bride to her husband, although it may be presented by any friend or rel- ative in lieu of an ordinary gift. These marriage medals are made of silver and are, about two inches in diameter. On one side is a pair of figures draped in classical fashfon and on the other is a wreath of laurel bearing the words “Souvenir de Mar- riage,” and after that are the names of the contracting parties, with the date and the words “Prosperite” and “Bonheur.” The silver is frosted and the workmanship of the medall{éns ex- quisitely fine. REWARD FOR LONG SERVICE, Sydney Olivier Appointed Governor of Jamaica. London.—Sydney Olivier, C. M. G., has been appointed governor of Ja- maica to succeed Sir Alexander Swet- tenham, whose resignation resulted ‘from the demand of the British gov- ernment that he apologize to Admiral ‘Davis, U. S.N., for the Ingults he of- fered him at the time of‘ the earth; quake. Mr: Olivier entered the co- lonial office at the top of the open competition, 25 years ago. He has been acting colonial secretary of Brit- ish Honduras and auditor general of the Leeward islands. He was co- lonial secretary of Jamaica for five f P = a oS Dp ace c ia ip A Fs F Ei SYDNEY OLIVIER. (Swettenham’s Successor as Governor of Jamaica.) years and acting governor general In three different years. He Is the au: thor of many articles of socialism and economic. More Sleep Called For. Most mothers rise at a certain hour and do their day's work. Now, if they go out visiting and stay later than their usual hour for retiring, they have used up more of thelr vital force than usual, says a writer. If a mother has been up and about for 20 hours instead of 16, she is more tired, needs’ more rest. If she gets up at the usual hour sleeps six instead of elght hours— she goes to work with lowered vitality, is suoner exhausted, and instead of ‘working upon the force stored In every part of her by sleep, stie works upon her nerves, upon brain and mus- cular matter—not the overplus of their energy; and working upon our capital of any sort Is the easiest way of going into bankruptcy. More sleep, if more tired, is the sensible way. Marine Effects. “Seasicknutss;” said Simeon Ford at a dinner recently, “is sald to be an affection of the brain. Some people pride themselves on their immunity. Some people love the ocean when It is lashed into fury by the gale. I have viewed storius at sea from the decks of small ships, usually from a recum- bent attitude’ in the lea scuppers, and there’s nothing in It as a view, and there's nothing in me while viewing it."—The Circle. . Nothing Doing, : Bacon—This country is filled witk undeveloped mines. Egbert—I know it. Those are the kind I've put my money in!—Yonkers Statesman. = FULL DRESS AND TUXEDO SUITS. ¢ $1.00--For Hires—$1.0u, Julius Cohen, _ 1104 7th street, N. W. ’ e T . Columbia Ice and Coal Co. FIFTH AND L STS., N. W., NESR K ST. MARKET, WOOD AND COAL UNDER COVER. OUR COALIS CLEAN, ANDWE SELL CHEAP. REDUCTION ON COALFOR CHURCHES. FILE YOUR NAME AND AUDRESS, AND WE WILE j -DO THE REST. . : ORDERS PROMPTLY FILL-ED. LEAVE YOUR NAM ‘AND ADDRESS AND TELLUS THE KIND OF COAL YOU | WANT. . COLUMBIA COAL AND ICE COMPAN x. ST. LUKE HALL, , HEADQUARTERS L 0. of St. Luke, Richmond, Virginia, e s W.Sidney Pittman * . . - Architect ~ - RENDERING IN PATENT DRAWINGS MONOTONE, WATER COLOR DRAFTING, DETAILING, TRACI AND PEN & INK BLUE PRINTING STEEL CONSTRUCTION A SPECIALTY. Paone: Main 6o59—M. Office 494 Louisiana Ave.,N.W: PEARL cela Buk toad Procise he eh ae] : erties <= 2] 4 3 Et APM f Bog ay aes ene ae cee ee | Ras Peer a fi rege onal J. A, Lankford, - Bea IN?) eee. re = oo ee ———_—_ = —THE— Knependent Order of St. Luke WITH HEADQUARTERS AT Richmond, Va., is a growing Fra- ternal Society, with several Incorporated Departments, op- erating :— 1 A Fraternal Society paying Sick Dues and an Endowment at death. - 2 AJuvenile Department pay ing/Sick Dues and an Endowment | st death. : 3 A Regalia Department. 4 ASavings Bank. 5 A Large Department Store. 6 A Weekly Paper—The St. Luke Herald: 7 AjJob Printing Office. , ‘The St. Lukes are now operating in 15 states, and are rapidly spread- ing in every direction. We want good, hustling Deputies. Good terms for the right persons, male or female. When you write doclose testimonial as to character end ability. z For-further information, address MAGGIE L. WALKER,’ ® Grand Sec’y, I. O. St. Luke, ®t. Luke Hall, Richmond, Va. EXPERT BU:LDERS EXAMINERS AND ESTIMATORS. ‘Plans gotten out at short notice from rough sketches, pencil draw- ings, written or verbal description, and mailed ‘to any section of the country. In tne past forty-two months we have designed, overhauled, repaized and built over Eight Hundred Thousand ($800,000) Dol- lars worth sf work in Washigtonn, D. C., and vicinity, the work be- ing of nearly every description and character. . c WE MAKE: A SPECIALTY OF DESIGNING FOR CHURCH- * ES, SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND HALLS. We also make a specialty of building up vacant lots,installing steest and industrial plants for schools, colléges and businets places. Amy- one contemplating having plans gotten out, buildings overhauled wo repaired, we would be glad to have them call’on or write us. Main Office 317 Sixth St, N. W,,Kesidence, 1210 V. Street, N. W. Wash'ngton, D, C. Telephone 4629. Branch, Miller’s Hotel, Richmond, Va. . | Branch, Taner’s Hotel, Norfolk, Va 7 _, James F Oyster, ¢ x The Leading Place in the City for é . BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS. 7 wyster’s Butter 1s the sweetest im the market: His Cheese is the purest and. Eggs the freshest. : . % : . Square Stands, Center Market, 5th and K ‘streets,-N. W., amd Riggs Market.’ a : GFF ICE Wholesale Dealer and Salesman, 900 and ‘902 Pennsylvania Aveaue, "NL OW. HAD TAPPED HEMLOCK TREES. Vermonter Loses Maple Sugar Yield Through Ignorance of Worker. Pomfret, Vt—The next timo Law- rence Pratt hires a new farm hand he will be certain that he under- stands his work before he sends"him into the sugar bush to tap. It will sare bim a lot of trouble and much chafing. Mr. Pratt hired the man, Henry Jones by name, to do general work about the farm and help him out dur- ing the maple sugar season. He knew that Jones had been employed during haying last summer by a neighbor and had given satisfaction, so he didn’t go Into particulars. When !t came time to prepare splles, or taps, for the maple trees, Jonen appeared a bit rusty as to their manufacture, but after watching the poss for a few minutes he proved a master hand at whittling them, The farmer delegated Jones to tap the trees. ‘ Everything went well until the first tun was boiled. The sap seemed ex ceptionally sweet, but when it had been boiled down the syrup tasted bitter and he and Jones were nauseated. “You are sure you didn't tap any: thing but maples?” inquired Mr. Pratt “Why, there ain't nuthin’ else in the orchard, is there?”":asked Jones, “Nothing else!” shouted the farm er. “Why. man, there must be 3 | hemtocks, sticking around.” “Well. then. I must have tappec ‘em,” groaned the hired man, “for } tapped every tree on the hill.” ‘A: HIGH-DEGREE- “DIL ET . iP % i 90 | | : 150} ld s LJ Ld «ft satisfachun 1 « care thing in 4 f | | J must $3.0u shoes. Shoes at this 4 ® bi [ price usually lack style or comfort : A ee or both, - e | | J _ The style of more expensive wn | - + shoes and good. solid value are . | round in our fj ile _ SIGNET SHOE ~ # °o |_d i i J because of the exceptional attention bee|| 2 in stowed on the making. The only chea ness in it anywhere Is the price. { as, A Coodyear-welted shoe, made on seves | 2 | ral of the season’s handsomest lasts, be ! Ll ee the most popular leathers. eis | Looks first rate and wears tha? way 9 | J every time. | WH | it's worth your while to come In and look "1 the Signet over, even If you’re not ready “3 to buy . oP Always welcome, Wm.Moreland, 49! OLD STAND, sIGN OF TEE BIG BOUT . Sheep Anndy Trainmen. Cripple Creek, Col—The law for. bidding the killing of mopntain sheep fs a good thing for the sheep but a frequent source of arnoyance to train- men, for thé animals make a hign. way of the tracks and will not take to the right or left when a (rain ap proaches but will stick to the path Trains have to stop while, the trar crews with, loud cries and: much pro fanity personally drive the sheep away. ‘ a ae € $ 7 . be - . . zo Coe pro - ey # . we . . 7 * i qe Oat tee _—_—_—_ . PUBLISHED AT eg Eye St, N. W., Washington, > DG 5 W. CALVIN CHASE,, EDITOR. ‘Yintered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C., as second-class . mail matter, : Oo . *. ESTABLISHED 1870. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ue copy per year in advance. .$2.00 SAN mEMths, ..-ee eee eeeeee gece 1.00 Abree months .....eeseeeeeeee -5C sabseription monthly ....+seee+ 2 . FOR - PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED. STATES SENATOR JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER OF OHIO FOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, - OF NEW YORK . “JIM CROMWISM” eee a nn ne ee ni gent and elevated colored man sub- scribe to the doctrine of Jim Crow-' ism. This doctrine has ‘found its way in the homts of those who are able and competent to teach the ig- norant masses to repudiate this doc- tine of Jim Crowism. What does all this mean? So-called Christians have inaugurated a system of Jim “Crowism in their churches, the W. C. T. U. has suggested a separate temperance organization for color- ed abstainers. Next and last is the Colored Young Men's Christian Association. This is the most in- consistent of all Jim Crowism. Here is a colored Young Men's Christian Association whose mem- bers are serving the same God, te- peating the same prayer and if any of the members die, the undoubt- edly go the same way because there is no evidence that has been intro- due that shows to the contrary. In the capital of a great nation, where education, ‘science and religion are so prevalent, educated colored and cultured .colored men have openly subscribed to Jim Crowism by giv- ing aid and comfort to a~separate and distinct institution, These men are told that they may have a sep- arate place of worship but this place must be supervised by white men who belong to another 4sso- ciation where colored Christians are not permitted to go. The Bee -wishes to ask these intelligent, cul tured and educated colored mer what the status of the colorec Americans will be fifty years from now. The race will be placardec upon every street comer as a Jin Crow ra€e, a race that subscribec is¢iation and separation; a rac that admitted its inferiority by self admissions. If the colored peopl continue to “subscribe to this doc trine of separation what will be the future of the coming generation’ Is this not a bad example to se for the children in coming ages When the offspring of coming gen erations come into existence the! will find themselves separated fron this so-called Chrstian _ religior which is becoming a mocker; among many of the so-called whit Christian churches. But who wil be responsible for this condition Why the colored people of thi generation who now subscribe t this heinous doctrine. The Be makes the suggestion to this gener ation to repudiate these separat institutions. If the black mani not good enough to worship wit the white man he should not be a annex to his place of worshif Have the colored men connecte with the colored Young Men’ Christian Association thought o this? Do they“know to what they; are subscribing? Every negro ‘ati su’ scribes to the colored annex of the Y. M. G. A. stated that he is inierior to the white man and for that reason he must have a sepa- rate buildinge He admits his ‘in- feriority and, it cannot be denice. ‘Thetyoung colored man is asked to join the ‘colored branch of the Y. M..C. A. Well, what does that mean? Why is he not asked to join the other branch, where white Christians are? Why do we have separate places of worship if we are serving the same God? Why do we aced sepasate Christias ‘Temperance Unions if our purpos- es are the same? ‘The, same God madz.us all, Why should we sep- wate? We are building barriers for future ages. Our children, Fand our children’s children will ‘have these impediments ‘to con- ‘front after this generation has pass- ed out of existence. Then comes a new generation, one that has been taught that it is superior to the other. Why should we accept Mr. Rockefeller’s twenty-five thousand dollars if a white man must dis- pense his gift and that which has been subscribed by the members of this Jim Crow Christian annex? It seems to us that ninety thousand colored people could subscribe enough to build their own associa- tion. “It is a shame for intelligent and, educated colored men to allow the race to be so humiliated. THREATS OF A BLACK- GUARD. - ‘The Editor of The Bee is never ucterred by threats; and especially shen they emanate froma sneak- ag and cowardly demagogue. In te Editor's mail last Saturday, May 1, he received an anonymouu: letter enclosing a copy.of the {di- tor's letter to the Daily Post that appeared in that influential journal May To. Written upon the mar: gin of the article were these words: » “You will follow Republicans 01 be disfranchised ilike niggers soutl of M. and D. Line. Nigger.” Undoubtedly this was written by some pusliianimous cur that! wa: too cowardly to sign his name, S¢ | iar as the colored voters are con cerned they will not support Mr Taft if he should be. nominated Jand neither will be follow again blindly, the Republican party i | Mr. Taft or any other administra tion candidate is nominated, Th | condition of the colored America | in this country cannot be any wors : should the Democratic party be suc | cessful in the election of 1908. Ey erything has been done to him tha ‘|could be—what niore? -He is kill ‘Jed, butchered and disfranchised,— '|what more? He is not permitte ‘|to ride in a first-class car goin: i South,—what more? He is estop | ped from txercising thé rights o ,| citizenship under the Constitutior _}—what more? Does the renegad "| that sent this anonymous note be : long to the faction of the adminis ' tration that is opposed to the co ; ored Americans? If he does, Th i Bee can readily see which way th 1 | wind is blowing by the straws. Te i millions of colored Americans wi | not be intimidated and forced t _| support any man for President wh : is inimical to them. THE BEE WOULD LIKE TO .. + KNO " What Mr. Taft thinks now. What Mr. Roosevelt will do next, If the Demecratic party intends tc nominate Bryz . If the colored Americans can forget Brownsville. If President Roosevelt thinks that he can-fool the people. Will the colored vote stand solidly by its friends. If the Engincer Commissioner wil promote a colored man. : What the next move will be in th public schools If Hughes and Gray will remain ir she Sunday school, Why some -eople don't stand by thei friends. ; ._ HAMPTON. . “rom the Southern Workman. ‘The approaching removal from Hamp- ton of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Brown. with Mc. Brown's resignation of the ps- sitions he has so long, and acceptably held upon the school's staff, has been a very unwelcome announcement of the past month, which we greatly regret to record. The Treasurer’s Office will miss a faithful and assiduous cashier. The staff of the Southern Workman is 1a- menting the loss of an experienced and able associate, in charge, formerly, for some years, of these “Incident” columns as well as of matter relating to Indiars. .a addition to his business manageme ithe paper. Not only in these official sitions but in many less formal ones —for instahce, as officer of the Arnt- strong League and member of its Pub- sation Committee and Boat Club, and 4s a public-spirited leader in the-out-oi- dudr social fife of-the school, he will b: steatly missed. Mr, Rrown’s fine work i methods of teaching reading in the Academic Department and her charming lectures on art and architecture will b: ong remembered by those of the teacit 2 and the tounspeople who have had the benefit’ of them. She hay mrd: 3 tgnolia Cottage a delightful seer! center. 4 «hile greatly regretting §Hamptoy’: < ts the hearty good wishes of thei wry friends here will follow Mr. anc +s, Brown to their new home in Wash- soi, D. C,- where on May ist Mr zown will enter a attractive ‘position + cungenial surroundings as head of th, 9 ukkeeping department in the copyright inision of the Congressional Library she Southern Workman is glad to an ounce that he will continue for the present his work im its Indian depart mest, a e; THE FOREIGN FIELD. From the Mission Herald! The -Board is yery grateful to Mrs. Fannie Berry, of the Ninth Street chureh of Louisville, Ky., who, out of wer own hard earnings has contributed 325 to aid Rev. T, E. Smith in building the Baptist Church at Bridgetown, Bar- pados, W. I. We are praying the Lord that thousands in our Baptist ranks may yet sce the importance of making per- sonal sacrifices that the cause of God in foreign fields may, prosper. AS EXPECTED. From the Rock Hill Messenger. -A\s may have beet expected, the Wash- mgton Bee is fighting the Jamestown Exposition. Whether its cause is just or unjust, the fight is on all the same. FOILED. . Lynchburg, Va., May 13—Misy Bert Caruthers, a young woman of about twenty-one yearsy living with her parents near the Virginia Christian College, in {he West End, was the victim of an at- tempted assault Saturday night by a white man. She made a, plucky fight, and after being dragged considerable dis- tance managed to frighten him off by strousing the residents about the college by her screams.. Miss Caruthers had her shirt waist almost torn from her, ‘and, she has seratches and bruises about her face, throat and wrists. She return- ed from a visit to a neighbor's bome about 10.30 o'clock, and as she started to enter the front door of her home the man came out of a window onto the veranda and attacked her. This is said to be the third attack of ‘this nature made wpon Miss Caruthers in the lasi year, but the former cases were hushed up in the dread of publicity, and as’ fat as is known the attack Saturday mgh has not been reported to the police, de- spite the fact that she stated Jast night to friends that she thought she knew the man 7 WE ARE O. K. From the Atlanta Independent. The Negro press of the country is deeply indebted to Brother Chase for the change of ‘heart he has wrought in the heart of Brother Wilkins of the Chicago Conservator. It would not be charitable at this late day to speak ol ‘the conversion of Col. Chase. DUNBAR. From the Cleveland Journal. The Hen John P.,Green, ho was 2 close friend of Paul Lawrence Dunbar will give reminiscences 6f the famec poet at Cory Methodist Church, Thurs. day night, and he should be heard by all those who would give honor to whor honor is due. PROF. T. McCANTS STEWARD. From the African Agriscultural World. The luncheon was served in the’ spa- cious dining hall of Prof, McCants Steward’s residence. The dining-room was artistically draped with the national flag. Beautiful flowers hung around the walls, and a charming bunch of native flowers formed a center piece on the table, in a wreath “Welcome to Su- preme Court.” | Those present were President Barclay, Chief Justice Z. B. Roberts,- Associate Justices Richardson and Dossen, Attor- new-Generfl Johnson, Speaker J. A. Tolliver, Hons. A. B. Stevens, E. M. Cummings, and A. J. Woods, County- Attorney, G, DB, King, Hon. G. W Ellis, Judge A, J. Mathews, Prof. H. B. Hayes and Marshall M. Wynn, Ill. Jes. H. Dabney, 33, is one of our leading undertakers. Brother Dabney i: up to date. tHe is making preparations to build a $5,000 structure. America and England are “aiming to get Cardinals, in order to better estab- | lish the prestige of the British and Amer- Jican Catholic Church. /MICHIGAN STATE PRISON HAS “SELECT” INSTITUTION, tang Ignorant and Illiterate Law. Breakers Receive Cd.cation There and They Gecome Uses.! Citizens. igan is thar which since 1880 has been maintained ‘at the Michigan state pris- | on. Its members>in' is composed of prisoners, and in this school grown | men are tobe ceen poring over the lesscns assigned to children of six or seven years in the public schools. For the last biennial period there was an average of 678 inmates of the fackson prison; of these 240 attended the school held regularly four nights In eavh weck in a room in the extreme east wing. One of the first things which hap- | pens to the man who has the misfor- tune to find himself in prison {s an examination as tu kis educational qual- fications. He is asked to affix his name to a ca.] which «fes the au- thofities the r tht to open a.! read his mall, Uneio Sams Iewors are not to be monkered with, even by prison officials, bar ze man in prison may not receive u> pened letters. If he refuses to auiuw them to be opened before he rercives them, he just doesn't recelie them. They are re- turned to "he -ender. But this test proves whether the prisoner can’ write, and a good many of the “fresh fish"—under which eu- vhonious title fellow prisoners are known by their older fellows—are il- Hterate. ien rer cent of all those ex- amined can neither read nor write. if they are defictent in education, af- ter an examination by Supt. Hollen; rake, they are assigned to a class, vacco.wling to thelr capabilities. There are eight grades in the prison school, which correspond, as to the thines taught. quite closely to the same grades in the public schools. Il- Merates start with the beginners’ grade; then they graduate to the sec- ond grade, and tackle the studies which trouble children of seven or eight yéars In the “red school houses” scattered all over the state, and so on to the eighth grade, after which they are exempt from compulsory at- tendince. + Men over 45 years of age are not compelled to attend the school, but no others escape, if they are educa- tionally deficfent. It {s a remarkable sight to see a bold burglar or house- breaker whose early education, except in rascality, has been neglected, por- | {ng over a childish primer. “But they are very eager and quick | to learn,” said a prison official. “As | soon as they master a few Words they begin poring over newspapers. They | seem to prefer the stories of current events, the things that people are talklag about outside. There was an ‘|'irlshman who could not read a word '; When he came here: he was interest- Jed in baseball, and in a month he |] was studying the scores with great | delight.” || _ The school teachers are officals and || the better educated inmates and the | prisoners In the lower grades are as teachable ‘as.children. When they ad- ‘| vance to the grades In which geos- -| raphy {s taught, some of them, it Is || found, have deen all over the world, .| and know at first band the places de- scribed in the text hooks. With many prisoners, Instruction which will lead te better things when the day of liberty comes apes not stop with the ‘prison school, The ‘| spark of ambition is kindled in many r|minds, and they take advanced 1] courses, If they can afford it, they 2] take the courses of the correspond -|ence schools. They are allowed com | Pensation for overt'me work on the contracts, and with he ttle money So secured, they try io fit themselves for something better. Just now three prisoners are taking courses in mechanical engineering 4 | others are taking courses in bookkeep J ing, electrical engineering, etc. One j| Would-be electrical engineer has ad _| yanced so far'that he fs employed Ir wirlng the prison. One man {s study y} ing, architecture; many are hard ai "} work on literature, with the facilities afforded by the rather limited prisor lbrary and megazines. Many friend: of the prisoners send old magazines _| which are bound In the prison binder, .| and read and reread. ;| “The great majority of the prison | ers are very anxfous to learn some N) thing useful, and to earn somethin; 4} to help them along the way of knowl e|edge and to give them a little star ¢| when they get out.” sald the official, | While discipline under Warder ..| Armstrong {s more vigid, every educa tfonat theory anc means of self-helj in vogue durinz *; ¢ent’s administra Y>] tlon ts retainen. The first care of th | Jackson prison manacement 1g th -|reformation cf preoners, te edabl \.| them to live r “S'a! «tives whes the {.| gain thelr lb-r~ And she metal | declare ther z= ~i-ceegz—not Ii ; [every case, bur ew'-rieni] to encoun Y lage the belle! tre" tue gctheds pur Postal Care certs i ~ SE5. ‘ Kansas City, 1 —< 0. > hel, a young photee-a'- =: -f ferry Mo, sent & fancy te a rar! 4. aman he ald not Whe. fs +0. sanwed the picture of a hc 7a wines making the picture applicable ic the addressee, [Mitchell was iné:cved dy the federal {grand jury, and at ‘be triat was fined $25 and costs ax. unting to $60. WHAT ATTORNEY JONES HAS DONE: | The members of the New Trinity Bap- tist Church should feel elated over their success and triumph. They have indeed ,won a great victory and there is no doubt bug-that the church’within a few years will be one of the leading churches in the city. The members of the new church are highly respectable people who have no fear of spending their money to succeed. At the time this membership eft Shiloh Baptist Church many. pre- dictions were made by the enemies of the -new church. Many said that the pastor would be crushed out of exist- ence and those who left the church would soon return to Shiloh. But how vain has been the hopes of the false ' |e eRe. ae : : aT ONS gain SE ct : oS OR Soe OM Set ae Pa Fs = RG ee, Me MATAR 1° Spee te ES fo. anes © Ea tg a °~, Se age © 7 RE a as is : S ak ie oy & F 4 Pe a yo =, Zr wOY go ee s : Be i? ; er cee Pe = fi id a Se a : a ee = ae = nn a oe : : a See ;: a hy % BX EN 4 Fi Bc fie -- ae na ® © me, > + - 7. > <M a, < : = ae ST. 7 ga, BR ek. 4 ATTORNEY THOMAS L JONFS. prophets. How mistaken have these peo-| lowed those who ple been! .\ new pastor of Shiloh was] church If Atto called after a hotly ‘contested iegal bat-| good Christan it tle, The new Trinity was advised by | the church, becau Attorney Thomas L. Jones, who has| Christianity mstill been a faithful worker in the church.| to intoxicate the He has stood manfully and loyally by |last and ‘atest: mc the members of the new Trinity. He|torney has inaugu has labored day and night and made| tion of a club of | yany personal sacrifices to defeat the| that has taxed its. “Semies of the new church. He was| to meet the prech: sell supported by the faithful, loyal} parsonage. The 1 men and women of the new church.} cb will be bant cast their lot with Trinity has been in] notes when they c cast their Jot with Trinity has been in- proper is then rel creased to about five hundred. These anxiety. It is g people were the substantial members of good Christians a the new church. They ‘had no fear. It is more than) They toiled night and day. Their faith- faithful attorney ful adviser stuck to them. He, never Trinity has trium lost an opportunity to protect their every a°membership tha interest. Today Trinity Baptist Church its size in the cit JUVENILE GOURT INDORSED. May 15, 1907. ~s aoee Editor Bee:— . In my opirtion the Juvenile Court con- stitutes one of the greatest blessings to society, in that it is a beneficent agency in the reclamation of our wayward boys and girls. My experience as an attend- ance officer of the public schools renders it necessary to make frequent visits to the Juvenile Court. The patience, uni- form kindness and Christian influences of the lady probation officer, Mrs, M B. Darwin, have the effect to soften the temperament of the children and instill in them new hope and a determination to lead more exemplary lives. Another adjunct to the successful administration of this court may be found in the effi- cient services of Mr. Copp, the other probation officer. It is hardly necessary tor refer tc Judge Delacy, the able, just and con: siderate gentleman, and upright judge whose administration has been markec by large-heartedness, and a warm solic itude touching the betterment of all whe appear before him. His methods of dis posing of cases brought before him ar dictated by consideration, best calculatec to instill in the children, the adoption o these ideals which are productive of tne noblest type of manhood and woman hood. This court directed by Judge De lacy is indeed a blessing to the commu nity. For here we get justice. Ida G. Richardson, Attendance. Officer. SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. le = 2 | Colored Young Women’s Christion As- | sociation Mects at Plymouth Church. 8 | At thersecond annual meeting of the | Colored Young Women’s Christian As- 1 | sociation held Monday night at the Ply- d | mouth Congregational Church the fol- instead of being in True Ror rosy Hall, its temporary worshiping 4 are. the members have purchased 1 rp of their own. Not only have new church but they have parc cight-room house with all ms - provements next to the chur. | church has been put in excell: The beautiful devigns upon he the center and either side or +, - | the alcove are most beautiful. + Jones with the assistance of 9: has another diadem to the ¢ Church, The Bee has exery reason * , that the members appreciate « b, been done for them and that + i it. It isa pleasure tobe ts with such a noble band of work - There is not a female inthe who doesn’t deserve the high: > mendation and appreciate what! «. done. There has been no male untrue to the cause of Trinty lowed those who have supp church If Attorney Jones + goed Christan st has been the | the church, because he has had Christianity motilled and driven 1: to intoxicate the lower regton~ Jast and datest move that the wir torney has inaugurated is the or: ‘tion of a club of two hundred m: that has taxed itself +o much a: | | to meet the prechase price of the parsonage. The money collecte! ' 'chib will be banked to meet 4° notes when they come duc. Th: proper is then relieved of a vur-: anxiety. It is gratifying to * good Christians and church peopl. It is more than gratifying to ~«- faithful attorney conquer the + ‘Trinity has triumphed and today a-membership that rivals’any ch. its size in the city. lowing officers were elected Pr: Mrs. Bettie G. Francis, re-ck - unanimons vote; first vice pr /Mrs. Annie E. Cromwell; thir! president, Miss Ella D, Barrer * urer, Miss Marion P. Shadd: + secretary, Mrs. Alice J. Quiver responding secretary, Miss Re Boston; recording secretary, M- ° E Love. ¢ . The reports of the building con "1° the hope and help, the travel -- the household devotional, the ul al, the flower and fruit, the so | ment committees respectively, library, the entertainment and t]« bership committees showed an ~ in quantity and quality of the w in this second year to be fourfc": The temporary home of the « ~ tion is in the Miner Institute » at the corner of 4% street and VI avenue, S, W., where girls and are accommodated, while atte: business, while seeking emplor while waiting for transportatier * destinations. Sewing classes and girls’ clu! | been in active operation during under ithe direction of the cn | and with the assistance of the n° The treasurer’s report showed for the year of $591.22 and exper for such as matron’s salary. ~ * building, gas, janitor’s service at! > | servedthe poor, of $573.65. Th. 7 ber of financial members is 264, ¥h' $1.00_a year, and life memibers 4, | pay $25 at any oné-time. Resolutions of good’wishes wer - to the president, Mrs. Francis, #2! of pneumonia and could not be p->- ¢} TIL R. D. Goodman has been apr + * |e the chairman of the executne =~ y-| mittee G. A. R. for the services on Mi- 1-[ 30, 1907. . The Week in Society Ada Williams of have been attend- ward University, will next week. They by their father Rev. who is at present on L. Jones will leave marg. Va, next week. ton, wife of Bishop Vernon returned to Mass, last Satur- glass. Wetmore of the city last week to the Pennsylvania of one of the mem- ors Opera Company, his legs. Attorney at the St. James whileorney J. A. Cobb was distinguished New to sett formerly of this New York, visited her work at 2009 O street, N. She had most enjoyable day. I have been sick impiring. M. Laws is not again gratification of his friends. Kitt Smalls of South Car- ammended to the Freed- lion few weeks ago, is im- M. Pierre was taken sick work and was taken to the hospital. sister of Mr. Arthur F. has been sick some time is Williams of Abbeville, S. on a visit. C Chase, who left the her sister, Mrs. Lafla S. Lynchburg, Va. has alvered from her long ill- connecting of the Young Relief the sum of $25 in building fund of the Christian Association. League is a very powerful organization, enclosing of several hundred and dollars in its treas-imental Orchestra, Prof. leader, will furnish northcoming annual exe-cret Tuesday, August 6,otion and friends of St. K Jones has returned tootte, N. C., to spend the Williams has returned to by her recent visit to Deas of South Carolina with a few days ago. The ng well. Lockwood has returned well pleased with her Green entertained her the Green of Baltimore left a few days ago onts in Philadelphia. spent about one week turned to Wilmington, her trip. Gibson had a pleasant with. Ferguson of Rock Hill, S. Hospital to undergo Dr Chas. Gamble came Richmond, Va., Mrs. Lucy guest of Mrs. Benjamin ones, who was the guest Mr. Thos. Jones, for returned to her home, at Lucas, one of the in- public schools will-make more the Dunbar Literary Sunday evening, May 19. --- at 6 o'clock at the Colored Y. W. C. A., corner 4½ street and Maryland avenue, S. W. Mrs. Nellie Williams, lecturer of Ebenezer Church, will also read a paper. The music will be furnished by the Zion Baptist choir, of which Prof. R. J. Danieys is organist and president, and Prof. E. W. Scott director. Mrs. H. A. Davis, President. UNION WESLEY'S RECEPTION. There was a large audience present on Tuesday evening at Union Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church. The occasion was a pastor and bishop's reception given by the stewards and stewardesses of the church. Mr. J. C. Overton was master of ceremonies, who opened the exercises with a chorus by the choir. Rev. Thomas Ertis, assistant pastor, invoked divine blessings. Prof. S. M. Dudley of the law department of Howard University delivered one of the most flowery welcome addresses that has been listened to for some time. He was followed by Rev. J. W. O. Scott of the Metropolitan Church. Rev. Walter H. Brooks of the 19th Street Baptist Church was introduced and delivered one of his most eloquent speeches. He was followed by Register W. T. Vernon, who delivered an amusing and characteristic address which was laudly applauded. He was followed by Attorney W. Calvin Chase. Bishop J. W. Clinton arrived late and was presented with a gold-headed cane, which he seemed to appreciate very much. Recorder J: C. Dancy delivered a most timely and logical address. He was applauded throughout its delivery. The chairman of the committee on arrangements presented Dr. W. H. Davenport a black suit of clothes. He made a timely response. Many high compliments were paid Dr. Davenport for his valuable services to the church. At the conclusion of the exercises the guests and audience repaired to the lecture room below where the committee had in readiness a most bountiful repast which was greatly enjoyed. Among those present were Rev. Sterling N. Brown, Mrs. J. W. Clinton, Mrs. Smalls, wife of Bishop Smalls, Mrs. J. C. Dancy, Register Vernon and many others. PAULINE. The musical operetta given last Tuesday evening at True Reformers' Hall, by Plymouth Council, I. O. of St. Luke, was very well rendered and reflected credit upon Mr. and Mrs. Stitt and Mrs. Eva Belle Height, under whose directions it was presented. Miss Mamie Fry played the part Pauline most acceptably and proved that she is an artist of the first class. Miss H. V. Davis, the famous elocutionist, and Mr. Samuel C. Height, one of the best tragedians, known, sustained the reputations they have earned and to which they are justly entitled. The principal characters in the Belle of Saratoga were: Pauline Western, Miss Mamie Fry; Clara Rivers, Miss Lillian Buchanan; George Ardent, Mr Wm. DeLong; Sir Chas. Grandiswell, Mr. Webster Elkins, and Capt. Western, Mr, Wm. Stitt. THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES. From Our Dumb Animals. April 12th was Band of Mercy Day in nea.; all the public schools of the whole State of Massachusetts and was celebrated by appropriate exercises, of which I find in the daily and weekly newspapers of the State many kind and most pleasant notices. At the close of the meeting I was glad to send to Mr. Andrew Carnegie, president of the New York Peace Congress, the following telegram: To Andrew Carnegie, President of the To Andrew Carnegie, President of the New York Peace Congress: New York Peace Congress: At a large peace meeting of Band of Mercy members and friends, held in the Tremont Temple, Boston, today, the following resolution was unanimously passed: Whereas, a colossal statue of Christ, called "The Christ of the Andes," has been erected on the boundary line of Chili and the Argentine Republic as a monument of perpetual peace between the two nations, Resolved, That we respectfully ask the Peace Congress, now in session in New York City, to urge upon the Peace Congress soon to be held at The Hague, that similar statues of Christ be erected on the boundary lines of other adjacent Christian nations, and that no war shall be hereafter declared between such nations until the statue of Christ standing on their boundary line shall be taken down and destroyed. In our June paper I propose to offer in behalf of our American Humane Education Society a prize of One Thousand Dollars for the best drama which shall carry to ten thousand theatrical audiences in our country and elsewhere the teachings of "The Christ of the Andes," and to follow that with another prize offer of One Thousand Dollars for the best story that can be written showing the folly and wickedness of war, to which we shall hope to give a circulation of over three millions, as we have already to the famous book, "Black Beauty." THE WASHINGTON NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. The Washington Negro Business League will hold a special meeting on Monday evening, May 20, Room 10, True Reformers' Building. Mr. J. A. Lankford, the president, has a special outline of a business proposition to present to the members. The League will send a large delegation to the national meeting which will be held in Topeka, Kans., in August. The president and the business man in general are much interested in the business pursuits of the Negro throughout the country and desire the public to understand that Washington City is forging to the front along business and financial lines. Zion's Conference Zion's Conference DISTINGUISHED MEN PRESENT. The opening of the A. M. E. Zion Conference was the signal for a large attendance at the Galbraith Church on Wednesday morning. Bishop Geo. W. Clinton, one of the best known bishops in the United States, opened the conference in a most eloquent and interesting address. In organizing the conference the following officers were elected: Chief secretary, Rev. W. H. Marshall; assistant secretary, Rev. George M. Oliver; statistician, Rev. R. J. Balding; marshals, Rev. R. C. Thornton, Rev. G. W. A. Tollert, Rev. J. H. Dorsey and Rev. J. W/E. Rohy; post office me-senger, D. P. Witten; press, James W. Poe and P. H. Williams. The following general officers were then elected: Financial secretary, Rev. M. R. Franklin; chief executive secretary, Rev. W. H. Coffey; manager of publication department, J. F. Moreland; editor of Quarterly Review, J. C. Dancy Wednesday evening there was a special program prepared. The church was packed from door to pulpit. Rev. Francis J. Grimkie, pastor of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, presided. The choir of about forty voices with Miss Sarah J. Jeniver as organist furnished the music. Following is the program of Wednesday evening: M. B. REV. S. L. CORROTHERS Organ Voluntary. Music, Choir. Scripture Lesson, Rev. Logan Johnson, D.D. Prayer, Rev. E. H. Curry, D.D., Presiding Elder of Philadelphia Ditsrict. Welcome Address, District of Columbia, Commissioner H. B. F. Macfarland. Address of Welcome, Galbraith Church, Mr. James A. Davis. Address of Welcome, Government, Hon. J. C. Dancy and Hon. W. T. Vernon. Address of Welcome, behalf of Public Schools, Mr. W. Bruce Evans. Address of Welcome, behalf of Baptists, Rev. W. H. Brooks D.D. Music. Choir. Address, behalf of the Congregationalists, Rev..L. B. Moore. Address of Welcome, behalf of Lawyers, Hon. W. C. Chase. Music. Choir. Responses, arranged by the Bishop. Church presided. There were some very interesting features about the evening meeting. The address-of Recorder J. C. Dancy, Mr. Davis, Register Vernon, Dr. W. Bruce Evans and Rev. L. B. Moore were highly commendable. Dr. S. L. Corrothers was highly commended for his work since he has been in the city. Dr. Corrothers has been identified with the people of this city and he is regarded as one of them. The address of Mr. Davis concerning the great work of the pastor of Gallreith Church was loudly applauded. There is no minister in this community more though of than Dr. Corrothers. He is a thorough race man. He loves his race and the race loves him. The reference made to him for the bishopric by the many speakers was received with the wildest enthusiasm. Among those seated in the pulpit were Bishop Alexander Walters, Rev. O. J. W. Scott. Dr. Scott was loudly applauded when he entered the church dressed in his military uniform. He gave the appearance of a real soldier. Rev. Sylvester L. Corrothers, pastor of Galbraith, came to this city about five years ago. Little if anything was known of Galbraith Church. It was not very long before this church became one of the religious centers in the city. Dr. Corrothers has done morh to reduce the debt upon this church than all the former ministers combined. He is a dignified and polished gentleman and a man who has won his way by perseverance and industry. He is popular in the church and influential in this community as well throughout the country. The continued bad weather has affected the crops very much and there are grave fears for their prosperity. The grand question that now presents itself is, What is the matter with the U. S. Army. The records show 6,258 men deserted last year and 8,849 re-enlist out of 24,083. And yet the President can afford to cut out three whose company without trial. The reason of the desertion, etc., appertaining to the army is that we have a military aristocracy in this country and free men simply kick. DIVAN-DE-EL-KUD'S-OASIS. Washington, D. C. Nobles Robt. Norman, 33, Grand Potentate Geo. Goodell, 33, Chief Rabban Daniel Taylor, 33, Assistant Rabban D. F. Seville, 33, High Priest and Prophet Jas Pogly, 32, Oriental Guide H. F. Frazer, 33, Recorder K. Brown, 33, Treasurer W. H. L. Moton, 33, and H. Walker, 33, Ceremonial Masters, Rev. J. H. Watson, Chanter of the Al-Koran, Todd-Johnson, Captain of the Guard, Ill. Uoble. Wm. Calvin Chase, 33d degree, legan adviser. The white folks of Brownville have presented Mr. Roosevelt with a big stick for meritorious services in connection with the discharge of the 25th Infantry without trial. D. P. C. Stockel, age 65, who posed as a model for McKinley, died at Chicago in poor circumstances recently. N. Gorham, business manager of the N. Y. Sun, died and left the bulk of his estate to his colored servant, Am. G. Wright, last week. Dr. Crum, collector of customs at Charleston, S. C., is not entitled to extra perquisites outside of his salary, according to the decision of the Comptroller of the United States Treasury. The white Masons of the United States are not fighting their colored brethren on account of color. It is the irregularity of the work where the kick comes in. Leslie M. Shaw predicts that there will be a great war between this country and Japan for the control of the Pacific. It is only a question of time. Detective Parham of the Central office is one of our leading detectives, a fine man and a gentleman with it. Mr. Parham is a member of the craft. Twenty thousand, chickens got drunk at Elmont, L. L., by eating Malt. Gray-headed roosters danced with ancient hens and there were hot times in town. Mrs. Capt. W. P. Gray, wife of Ill. ro. W. P. Gray, 33, deceased, Past Commander Patriarchie 18, Odd Fellows, is now located with her son and is in comfortable circumstances. Brother Stephen Johnson, W. M. of Hiram Abiff, is on the mend. He resides at 123 L street, N. W. Ill. O. R. King, 33, has a good position at the U. S. Postal Telegraph Co. of this city. The Knights-Templar (Va. Ave. faction), under the auspices of Simons Commandery No. 1, observed Ascension Day by attending-divine services at Asbury Church, 11th and K streets, N. W. The Sir Knights preceded by a band, made a creditable appearance on the streets. The Rev. and Sir Knight Bro. Young, presiding elder, of Baltimore, preached a very able sermon. The Sir Knights of the 19th street faction observed Ascension Day by services, at the hall, 1721 Pennsylvania avenue, N. W. The Sir Knights of the Compack Fraternity followed suit at their headquarters, O and 4th streets, N. W. (While all these brethren have been serving the Lord, let them observe the obligations.) The white people of Brownsville, Texas, have raised $10,000 to be paid any officer or member of the 25th Infantry who will confess having participated in the raid for which the 25th was mustered out. This is only a blind on the part of the rebels of the South to back their advocate, viz., the President. A Good Refrigerator A Good Refrigerator Is an economy as well as a convenience. By buying here you can get a thoroughly good hardwood Refrigerator that will fulfill every requirement, at a very moderate price. We sell a practical-size "Star" Refrigerator, with charcoal insulating and zinc lining, for as low as $6.95, and we are always ready to arrange accommodating terms of credit to suit you. HOUSE AND HERRMANN. 7TH AND I (EYE) STS, N.W. CREDIT FOR ALL WASHINGTON. Everything for the House We have overlooked nothing that comfort or appearance, and we have stocks that, no matter what style of an excellent assortment to choose from carpets, let us put clean Mattings on stock, and we sell any number of yarn make no charge for fitting or laying Peter G everything in the Home We overlooked nothing that could contribute to your appearance, and we have made such a care no matter what style of furniture you pr assortment to choose from. If you have us put clean Mattings on your floors We we sell any number of yards at the full-r charge for fitting or laying. Peter Groga Everything for the Home We have overlooked nothing that could contribute to your home's comfort or appearance, and we have made such a careful selection of stocks that, no matter what style of furniture you prefer, you have an excellent assortment to choose from. If you have taken up your carpets, let us put clean Mattings on your floors We have a superb stock, and we sell any number of yards at the full-roll price. We make no charge for fitting or laying. 817-819-821-823 Seventh Street Whelan' DEALER FINE FAMILY GROCERIES LAMB, VEAL, MUTTON AND SMOKED, SALT AND CORN MARKETING DELIVERED PHONE MAIN 3246. N. W. COR. 3RD AND James H. UNDERTAKER AND PR ALL WORK FIRST CLASS. T TWELFTH AND H SPEC FOR EVERY THREE BUSH-AT OUR YARD WILL GIVE DURING THE COLD WEATH- COLUMBIA COAL AND ICE FIFTH AND L ST., N. W., Vhelan's Market DEALER IN FAMILY GROCERIES AND PROVISIONAL MEAL, MUTTON AND PORK. CED, SALT AND CORNED MEATS AND MEETING DELIVERED PROMPTLY. E MAIN 3246. N. W. COR. 3RD AND C STREETS, S James H. Wins UNDERTAKER AND PRACTICAL EMBA ORK FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST LIKE TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. SPECIA EVERY THREE BUSH-ELS OF COAL, OR YARD WILL GIVE ONE PECK OF THE COLD WEATH-ER. BIBIA COAL AND ICE I AND L ST., N. W., COMF Near K Str Whelan'sMarket FINE FAMILY GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, BEEF, LANB VEAL, MUTTON AND PORK. N. W. COR. 3RD AND C STREETS, S. W. James H. Winslow UNDERTAKER AND PRACTICAL EMBALMER. ALL WORK FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE. TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. SPECIAL FOR EVERY THREE BUSH-ELS OF COAL PURCHASED AT OUR YARD WILL GIVE ONE PECK OF COAL FREEDURING THE COLD WEATH-ER. COLUMBIA COAL AND ICE COMPANY, COLE & SWAN, WATCHMAKERS AND JEWELERS, No. 1514 14TH Sr., N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. Choicest jewelry of every kind, To suit the most fastidious mind: With taste and skill combined. The best and finest you will find. MADRE'S APRK FOR PICNICS. Madre's Park is being fitted up for picnics, lawn fetes and other outdoor amusements. A new floor will be put in the pavilion this year. For terms and other information call and see M.-A. D. Madre, 1314 Eighth street northwest. MONEY. For everybody at terms lower than the lowest. Don't be deceived; come to us and investigate. Business strictly confidential. No one knows of your transaction with us. We lend on furniture, pianos or salary. If you have a loan now anywhere and need more money, come to us. Nothing deducted from loan. You get full amount. Extension in case of sickness without extra charge. METROPOLITAN LOAN: & TRUST CO. 505 E Street, N. W FOR RENT. For Rent-Three large, unfurnished rooms, with modern improvements. No. 1035 Seventeeth Street Northwest. Mrs. Clara Jones, who has spent several days in Arlington, Va., returned to the city Wednesday morning. --- could contribute to your home's made such a careful selection of furniture you prefer, you have room. If you have taken up your floors We have a superb prices at the full-roll price. We groan Between H and I Streets. Mrs Market R IN BEEF AND PROVISIONS, BEEF, PORK. NED MEATS A SPECIALTY. PROMPTLY. C STREETS, S. W. Winslow ACTICAL EMBALMER. TERMS MOST REASONABLE. R STREETS, N. W. CIAL HELDS OF COAL PURCHASED ONE PECK OF COAL FREE ER. COMPANY, Near K Street Market. 316 4 1-2 STREET, S. W. MURRAY'S. I have made extensive purchases for the Easter holidays, consisting of fine Toilets and high-class Perfumes, and beautiful and useful articles. Just the things for Easter presents, at prices to suit my customers. Corner Second and D streets, S. W. Is easily made by our agents. Will you be one? Besides allowing large profits we also give our workers choice of over 108 useful and beautiful articles free. We want a representative in your town to sell Taylor's Hair Grower and Dandruff Cure (pomade)* and Taylor's Face Cream and Beautifier in 25 cent sizes. Just to write, first to get agency. Write for our proposition today. It's a win-Address, Taylor Remedy Co., Dept. 21, Louisville, Ky. SPECIAL NOTICE Plans and specifications for building a stable in Freeman's alley, between 6th and 7th, and N and O streets, N. W. are now ready and open for bids. Apply to DR. MORSE'S PHARMACY. 1904 L Street N. W. Purity, accuracv. and promptness. Not how cheap, but how good. Toilet articles of every description. School Supplies. Imported and Domestic Perfum- eries. Dr. J. W. Morse; 1904 L Street Northwest. --- DEALER IN Jas. H. Dabney, 1132 3rd street, N. W. DOOM FOR DERELICTS NEW BRAND OF DESTROYER BUILDING FOR ATLANTIC. Revenue Cutter No. 17 Will Be Assigned to -Sink Those Floating Hulks Which Are a Menace to Navigation. Washington.—Clerks of the revenue cutter service are so long forward to the completion of the a. deceiver destroyer, re ename cutter 15, with a expectations of her usefulness. Sa will be the first craft of her kind to become part of the service, and when completed, some time next year, the ability of the "watchdog" branch of the treasury department to cope with dangers and contingencies that now seriously strain the bureau will be largely increased. At present all the work that will fall to the new destroyer must be done by the revenue cutters, which are neither built nor equipped for such service. When No.17 is launched she will in all probability get a name, for one can hardly imagine a successful launching without a naming, and neither the secretary of the treasury nor the chief of the revenue cutter service would wish to humilitate the new ship by sending her out among her sister ships with no more idea of typifying title than that which is given a convict in the penitentiary or a brick house in a row. As the new destroyer is to be unique in many ways, she will also be assigned to the other cutters in the service. She will have a steaming radius of 5,000 miles without stopping to coal, will be provisioned for much longer cruises than she will ever be likely to make, and will be equipped with powerful derricks, the most improved life-saving apparatus and with a magazine in which will be high explosives in sufficient quantities to blow half the battle ships in the world out of the sea. The gunpowder and dynamite, however, will not be spent to destroy life, but to save it. The ships that she will attack are those that have outlived their usefulness and have passed from the service of civilization to the class of human enemies. The half-sunken derelicts that float silently up and down and across the paths of commerce, claiming as victims the finest ships, with their crews and passengers, will be the prey of No. 17, and no mercy will be shown when these mysterious foes are found. It is expected that in life-saving work the new revenue cutter will prove as valuable as in the more sensational and noisy pursuit of derelicts. Her field of operations will be comparatively restricted, with Nova Scotia on the north, the Bahamas on the south and the mid-Atlantic on the east. Her duty will be to keep the paths of ocean commerce clear, and the field is large enough to occupy all the time of her swift engines. The other side of the ocean will be patrolled by the ships of Great Britain or the powers of the continent. When storms along the seaboard imperil passenger ships or there is other work cut out for lifesavers, revenue cutter 17 will be summoned by wireless if she is at sea, and by land wire if in port, and will hasten to the scene. That she will give a good account of herself in every emergency the revenue cutter officials feel certain, and are concerned now only in expediting the construction of the sadly needed ship. LORDS BUY 2,000 PRAIRIE DOGS. Britishers, Seeking Sport, to Stock . Hunting Preserves with Them. Huron, S. D.—Two thousand prairie dogs at three dollars each at shipping point have been contracted for by English lords who have exterminated the rabbits and hares on their shooting preserves in England and are languishing for sport. Mrs. Nellie Madden, of Waukon, Wis., having contracted to supply this number of the dogs, has withdrawn her farm north of this city from the market, believing its value has enhanced immeasurably by the demand for prairie dogs, with which it is overrun. It is believed the English noblemen have bucked up against another Yankee game, and that the character of the prairie dogs has been misrepresented to them. The animals are the size of an overgrown rat, live in communities, their holes connected with outlets every rod or two. They are spry enough to arouse the sporting blood of the British, but when wounded drop into their holes or if dead their fellows quickly drag them in. It is mere pot-hunting to shoot them, but to entrap 2,000 of them will afford a nice problem for the venders. Pulp Mill Creates Town. Washington.—An English concern which obtained a concession of 2,000 square miles of land at Grand Falls, New Foundland, for the purpose of developing the pulpmaking industry has surveyed a town site and has platted off streets, squares and areas for churches, schools and public buildings, erected houses for the staff and employees, built two miles of railway and besides has made other improvements, among which is the construction of a new dam. An American expert has prepared the plans for the installation of a pulp mill and 800 or 900 men will be employed in the construction of the buildings and dam. It will be about three years before the output of pulp and paper will be placed on the 13 est. POET VISITS SPOOKS. Italian Writer Goes to See a Spirit Medium Near Rome. Rome.—An extraordinary adventure of the famous poet Gabriele D'Annunzio is related by the Messagero. The paper declares that Signor D'Annunzio often visits the villa of the Marquis Clement Origo, near Florence, for the purpose of attending Spiritualistic seances. On the occasion of the last visit a small table from the studio of the painter Corcos was called into use and the spirit in response to an invitation to declare itself answered in the conventional manner by rapping on this, piece of furniture. The spirit introduced itself as that of a gentleman who recently perished in a motoring disaster and immediately proceeded to make the most damaging statements against D'Annunzio, who, with his friends, at first smiled, but later began to show marked uneasiness. This troublesome spook was accordingly switched off and a second invoked but matters only became worse, for the table seemed to become imbred with the most violent animosity against the poet. It moved stealthily toward him and finally leaped at him with such violence that he was thrown against the wall. Marquis Origo, having calmed the table, asked the spirit for its opinion as to D'Annunzio's literary merit. "All smoke," came the answer. "smoke which will speedily be dissipated." The experimenters then decided to call upon a spirit of the female six—that of a lady recently deceased—but the statements made were of a kind that the Messagero thoughtfully and delicately refrains from publishing them, adding that the poet is about to issue a statement in reference to his remarkable adventure. LOST MAN FINDS HIMSELF. Wanderer Recovers His Wits in Michigan and Writes to His Home. Philadelphia.—One of those odd cases in which a man's intellect will become entirely blank for a period of time without any apparent reason, and return again as mysteriously and suddenly as it went, is instanced in Ell McCafras, a middle-aged man, who disappeared from Ardmore more than a month ago. He writes from Morris, a little lumber town in Michigan, to say that he has found himself there. The letter was received by his brother, Charles McCairns, of Berwyn, and inquires very anxiously after the welfare of Ell's wife and 12-year-old son, whom he left on the morning of March 9 to go into Philadelphia and hunt for work. After that he was not heard from until he wrote of his strange experiences. The police of all the large cities and various lodges to which he belonged have been looking for him, but it remained for McCairns to find himself. He says that after he left his home and got into the city he can remember nothing until he came to himself and found that he was working in a sawmill at Morris. Of his wanderings he can give no idea. In some way or another he had got rid of the clothes he wore when he left home and was dressed from head to heels in a new outfit, but he has not the slightest idea where or how he got it, for he had no money. Governors of. North and South Carolina Are Both Prohibitionists. New Haven, Conn.-The famous salutation between the governor of North Carolina and the governor of South Carolina is now, for the time being at least, a historical back number. The fact was learned by Gov. R. S. Woodruff, of this state while attending the reception of Gov. Swanson in the Virginia building at the Jamestown exposition recently. The Carolina governors, who had never met, were brought together by Connecticut's governor. Gov. Ansel, of South Carolina and Gov. Glenn, of North Carolina, clasped hands warmly, and while they were expressing mutual gratification over the meeting Gov. Woodruff stood-expectantly. Finally he remarked: "And now, gentlemen, I presume I shall have the pleasure of hearing a repetition of the famous remark of the governor of North Carolina to the governor of South Carolina." Gov. Ansel, responded at once: "Your excellency, as I am a Prohibition governor and a teetotaler, I cannot make it sincerely." And to the amozement of Gov. Woodruff and Gov. Ansel as well, the other Carrollian added: "Being a Prohibitionist myself, I, too, must suffer the remark, at least literally, to remain a matter of history." Desks to Keep Feet "Awake." Cleveland. Because the feet of boys and girls in the Cleveland public schools go to sleep the board of education has advertised for bids for the manufacture of 2,000 desks designed by Prof. Ehler, head of the athletic department. "The seats in use at the present time cause physical injury to the children," said Robert Gammel, secretary to Director Orr. "We have been flooded with complaints from health authorities and physicians." The old style of seats have a peculiar curve at the edge. This curve rises from the level of the seat and strikes the leg just under the back of the knee, causing the feet to go to sleep. TELEGRAPHER KEEPS FAMILY BY HIS SKILL. Left Without a Father at Age of 12 He Learns to Send Out and Receive Messages and Becomes Highly Proficient. Carimi, Ill.—Billed since birth, Gilbert McDonald, probably the most wonderful telegrapher in the world, lives at Maunie, a lee village on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, and earns a living for his widowed mother and three sisters. He is perhaps the only blind telegraph operator in the world, and can practice at the key with as much dexterity as one not minus his eyes. McDonald is 25 years old and has been a telegraph operator about ten years. Not until recently, though, has he been recognized by the railroad and given permanent employment. He is now assistant operator at Maunie and also has charge of the Western Union Telegraph company's office. Left without a father at the age of 12, the blind lad was forced to assist his mother in making a living. He was greatly handicapped by the loss of his eyesight, and many neighbors sought to contribute to him through charitable motives. But the lad would have none of it, and worked at whatever he could find to do. He sold papers on the streets, blacked shoes and ran errands. He finally drifted to the depot, and a strong attachment grew between John W. Foster, agent at the little station, and the blind lad. For hours the boy would sit and listen at the busy clickety-click of the wire. One day Foster asked him if he would like to learn telegraphy. The reply was affirmative and the boy went to work. In less than a month he could send, and in less than half a year he was a marvel at the key. Each day he would copy messages and take them home at night. There his slaters would teach him their meaning. He soon became proficient on the typewriter and could take the fastest message that went over the wire with ease. Persisting in this unique schooling, the boy learned the meaning of over 2,000 words, knowing the spelling and proper use of each. He in time learned to make change, sell tickets and weigh baggage. He became an object of interest to railroad men, and the agent at Maunie employed him to assist him with his work. One day when the agent was away the fast St. Louis mall and express flyer stopped at the station. Superintendent J. W. Logsdon stepped off and ran into the depot. He looked on in wonder as the blind boy sold tickets, made change and answered questions as well apparently as one with eyes. As soon as Mr. Logsdon returned home he interested the railroad officials in the blind boy and McDonald was accordingly sent to the state blind school at Jacksonville. While there he distinguished himself, by rapid progress. He remained but a few months and returned to work at his post at Maunle. McDonald is one of the speedlest operators in the west. When the Shawnetown flood threatened to submerge the town last January he was ordered to assist the Western Union operator in handling press specials. The sender has to read the copy to "Glb," as the railroad men call him, and he gets it on the wire almost as fast as it is read. LONDON YOUTHS WANT BEARDS Revulsion Against Clean Shaven Faces Now Growing. London.—Notwithstanding the example of the American whisker taxers and their admirers here, it is contended that a revulsion against a clean shaven face is gradually growing among fashionable Londoners. An observer claims to have noticed a tendency on the part of the glided youth of club land and the stock exchange to grow "nice little curly beards, which give them quite a poetical appearance." A fashionable hairdresser in Bond street sald beards are slowly but certainly coming into favor among the young men desiring to be fashionable. They have found beards, especially fair ones, harmonize excellently with a sunburned skin. The most fashionable cut is a close chopped beard parted in the middle, which gives a distinguished appearance. The Russians, and latterly some Americans, affect it considerably. This Is Why You Cough. Vienna.—Heinrich Albrecht, professor of pathological anatomy in the University of Vienna, has discovered a cough bacillus. From this bacillus the professor has produced a serum which, when injected into rabbits, causes acute inflammation of the heart, thus showing why it is that influenza exerts so injurious an effect upon the human heart. Physicians believe that Prof. Albrecht's discovery will prove exceedingly valuable in improving the serum treatment of influenza and coughs. Washington.—W. W. Newell and E. S. Truesdale of Broome county, New York, who have been recently traveling in Europe and Africa and elsewhere, were among the president's visitors recently. 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PRAYER BOOKS High quality at low prices, such as Key of Heaven, Manual of Pragrers, St. Vincent's Manual, Vade Mecum, Sacred Heart, Following of Christ (by Kempis), Bibles, Old and New Testaments, etc. We have them in cases suitable for bridal or Christmas presents. RELIGIOUS MEDALS Religious Medals in Gold and Silver; Immaculate Conception, St. Benedict, St. Anthony, S. Joseph, Infant of Prague, St. Vinceat de Paul, St. Aloysius, e. Eight-Day Sanctuary Oil. $1.10 per gallon. Crucifixes, hanging and standing. Candle Sticks in Gold Silver, Brass. Sacred Hearts, Solid Gold, 75 cents and $1.25. EN. WOOD TO SUCCEED BELL AS CHIEF OF STAFF. Has Educated as a Surgeon and Has We Have Another Medical Man in Gen. Ainsworth as The prospect is that one Roosevelt leaves the army will be under control of two men placed as surgeons. These Leonard Wood and Maj. Ainsworth. Army officer is said, are not great the prospect of men through the medical de- placed in charge of it seems to be pretty stood that within the Gen. Wood will suc- Franklin Bell as Maj. Gen. Alnsworth is secretary, or adju- the department, and efficient service that aspect of a change in this administration. of Gen. Wood is pr- by army officers as wonders of the retirement of Maj. Wade, only recently and became No. 2 on the general. The only man Gen. Arthur MacAr- into practical retire- of April, Gen. the only obstacle be- wood and the office of has two years to serve on the retired list, but, is not ambitious to fill chief of staff. He has a possible record of service, here understand he aside for Wood if it but it is the wish of on that this be done. [Illustration of a man in military uniform]. GEN. LEONARD WOOD. (He Will Probably Be Made Chief of Arv. Staff Before Long.) Or weeks ago MacArthur mission to go into what retirement at his old waukee in order that he his observations of the war. Assuming that for active duty again, heads the list of ac- cenerals. D. Grant, who has command of the depart- east for some time, and Gen. Wade in com- atlantic division, but by enactment he will not re- command over the de- east for nearly a year. finding is that this ar- ade for the purpose of command of the depart- ast open for Gen. Wood, and home from the Phillip- command of the depart- ast to the office of chief active head of the army Gen. Wood recently department that he de- m in the Philippines until visits the islands next time Taft leaves for it will start for Ameri- Europe. Gen. Bell is acceptable chief of the president's desire occupy the place by other duties will be One reason for desir- ed in the office of chief as possible is that present chief, is out- Ainsworth, the ad- This anomalous con- causing any friction, but gleding to Hoyle," and on desires to correct possible. Gen. Wood is in the army, save Gen. who outranks Gen. Alns- is only 47 years old. In he was jumped from a the medical department generalship. In August, made a major general army officers do not un- they will never be it was right, but it was settles it. Gen. Alns- years older than Gen. promotions have come owness characteristic was made a captain grown in 1879, a ma- nal department in 1891, al in 1899 and a ma- dal. have Distinction. -Does your husband the acts? -No he comes in the drinks.-Judge. Michigan Congressman Tells of Visit to the Isthmus. Detroit.—Representative George A. Loud, of the tenth district of Michigan, the only representative from this state who was a member of the party from Washington which made a trip to the canal zone, has returned from that expedition and was recently in Detroit. The congressman comes back to his duties a thorough optimist on the canal proposition and he has little patience with those who have recently been raising a cry of graft. "It was the unanimous opinion of our party," said Mr. Loud, "that the work was magnificently organized. T. (Congressman Who Reports Panama Canal Progress Satisfactory.) At every point and in every department the work was progressing vigorously and in harmony. Not a word did we hear of criticism of one department with another. The personnel of the management was admirable; keen, alert young men, all interested in their work and all confident of success. "There was no unusual amount of sickness. The sick and death rates were only 28 to 1,000, and four and eight-tenths to 1,000, respectively, not greatly differing from average of our own country. By the official reports for the last ten months, we found there had been but one death from yellow fever and two from smallpox, while strangely enough the most frequent deaths were from tuberculosis, 386. "Under Col. Gorgas there has been an immense amount of sanitary work done. The cities have been cleaned up as never before, good brick pavements have replaced the cobblestones and mire, and foul disease breeding gutters are a thing of the past. "If no labor troubles interfere I believa the canal will be completed in seven to ten years. As to cost, I do not pose as a judge of this, or of the time of completion, but we all thought it would cost more than the original estimate, quite a good deal more." VACATION FOR "OUR ALICE." Mr. and Mrs. Longworth at Their Beautiful Country Home. Cincinnati, O.-Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth arrived at Rookwood, recently, and will spend a couple of months there. It is hardly possible to find a lovlier spot within the limits of a city than Rookwood in early spring. Both Mr. and Mrs. Longworth are very fond of riding and driving—the Country club, with its tennis and golf, are near by, and the Pillars not too far away—and with the companionship of a few close friends are Rookwood, Cincinnati. looking forward to a delightfully restful month or two after a very strenuous Washington winter. They may make a summer journey to Alaska in preference to the Atlantic seacoast, but their plans are still nebulous so far as summer outings go. En route home they stopped at Athens for a short visit with Gen. and Mrs. C. H. Grosvenor, who are devoted friends of the Longworths. The Native New Yorker. "I've been away from the city for several years," said the Idiot, "and on my return I find things very different from what they were when I left. In the late eighties of the last century, for instance, you would occasionally encounter a New Yorker, by birth, on the streets, and once in a while, you would see one at the theaters on first nights, but nowadays they don't seem to be in evidence." "Have you tried Harlem?" asked the policeman, with a grin. "But, hold on a second," he continued. "Here's one of our plain-clothes men. I'll ask him. Hm. Morlarity," he cried to a prosperous-looking passerby. "Say, is anybody ever born in New York nowadays?" "Oh, yes, indeed," replied Morlarity. "A good many—they're mostly furriers." And with that he passed on, and the Idiot mournfully resumed his quest. John Kendrick Bangs, in Broadway Magazine. P. C. Mohammed-All-Mirza, whose reign has commenced with a series of political agitations. TOWN BORN OF SPITE VERONA, ME., ONCE KNOWN AS ORPHAN'S ISLAND. Intended as a New England Metropolis, But Plan of Promoters, Failed —No Church or Post Office In Village. Verona, Me.—The Intensely Yankee town of Verona, with its Intensely Italian name, was born out of spite. Long before the English fleet sailed up the Penobscot river in the autumn of 1814 and laid Bahgor under heavy tribute, the present town was known as Orphan's Island, and had been surveyed and mapped out as the future metropolis of New England. A long bridge, costing many thousands of dollars, was built to connect the island with Buckspart and paid for from the sales of a few choice lots near the center of the unborn city. The Wetmores and Heaths and Bowdolns and Bridgeses, who were interested in the plan, looked down on old John Jacob Astor as an amateur in finance, and thought the rich men at Boston were boggars. Later on it was discovered that the drawing of expensive maps and the making of elaborate plans would not insure an immediate sale of real estate. The proinoters ran short of money and became plunged in debt. They appealed to Buckspart for help in repairing the great bridge. When their prayers were not granted, out of spite they asked the legislature for a town charter, and were made joyful when the new town of Verona was born. The decline of weir fishing and shipbuilding nearly depopulated the island after the civil war, but recovery has followed slowly through close attention to agriculture. Though the town is seven miles long and nearly three miles wide at its bulge, though several of the residents are wealthy, neither as Orphans island nor as Verona has there ever been a settled clergyman or lawyer or doctor on its area. There is no church, and when a citizen dies he has to be taken across the bridge to find burial in a cemetery. There has never been a murder or any serious crime committed on the island since its first settlement. No post office has ever been placed on the charmed ground by a benevolent and paternal nation. No sheriffs ever cross the bridge to serve legal instruments. No minister drops in to take supper with worshipful parishioners. When a doctor from Bucksport rides through the neighborhood it creates as much of a sensation as a circus parade. If undertakers relied upon Verona for patronage they would go into insolvency. It is a place where no barber's pole hangs out to allure customers. No book寄收 over calls. An Antique Joke. "Funny, wasn't it," remarked Hercules, as he dropped into the office of the Elysium Herald. "What?" asked the editor, looking up from the article he was polishing up on the last matrimonial shindy kicked up by Jupiter. The strong man laughed like a child. "Why," he answered, "that my 12 labors should have made a ten strike." Necessary Then. "It ain't true," said the milkman, "that we always put chalk in our milk." "Do you mean to say," demanded Mrs. Housekeep, "that you never do it?" "Well—er—never, except after a heavy rain when the water gits brown an' muddy." Youth Supposed to Be Fatally Shot Amazes Surgeons by Recovery. New York.—With eight perforations in his intestines and the chance for life 100 to one against him, Frank Garrison, 18 years old, walked a mile to a hospital, submitted to an operation from which there was virtually no hope of his entering alive, and finally amazed the physicians who attended him by walking out of the hospital the other day apparently as sound and sturdy as he had ever been in his life. The surgeons, say his is one of the most remarkable recoveries on record. Young Garrison, who lives on West One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street, went hunting dock rats in the neighborhood of One Hundred and Twenty-first street and the Hudson river. He was examining a gun when it was discharged and its entire load lodged in his abdomen. Strangely enough, the lad did not lose consciousness, but realizing that he needed medical attention without delay, he shouldered his gun and picked his way painfully to a hospital, at One Hundred and Thirty-first street and Amsterdam avenue, a good mile's distance. For several days afterward the boy's condition was desperate and the physicians looked for his death at almost any moment. Then there came a sudden rally and from that moment the youthful patient steadily improved. BABE IN INCUBATOR. Welghed Two Pounds at Birth, Four Months Before Time. Elma, Wash.—There was born to the wife of Milton Spurgeon the other day a child which welged at birth but two pounds. So light and frail was the tiny piece of humanity when it was born that Dr. Blair, of Elma, the attending physician, in the absence of better facilities, ordered a chicken incubator immediately provided for the new-born babe, and that the child be placed in it at once and the temperature kept at blood heat. With careful watching and attention the child has continued to live; it is kept drapped in a finest and softest of batting. Although the child was prematurely born, four months before its time, it now gives every promise of living. It is not longer than a foot rule, and is just able to make a noise when it cries. Its little hards, clinched, are not larger than ordinary marbles. Its breathing is perceptible and regular, the high temperature that is maintained causes the little thing to perspire freely. The father and mother of the child are living on a farm about three miles from Elma; the babe is their firstborn and is a girl. Old Dog Signed His WILL. New Augusta, Miss.—The first case on record in this state of a dog making its own will, and of it being offered for probate, is reported here. Fifteen years ago "Doc" McAllister, the largest planter in this section, died, leaving a pet hound. In his will he set aside $250 for the care of the dog until death. Ford McAllister, the eldest son of the deceased, was given control. "Tobe," the hound, died recently, leaving numerous progeny, of which young McAllister is very fond. Desiring to preserve the bequest for the benefit of the pups, when the old hound was attacked by sickness, the boy drew up a will in proper form, witnessed by two citizens, and placing a pen between the claws of the aged dog, the animal made its cross mark. OLD WALL ROUNDCITY CAMPECHE, MEXICO, AS ROMANTIC AS ANCIENT SPAIN. High Walls of the Once Important Seacoast Town of Yucatan Are as Strong To-day as When Finished in 1769. Mexico City.—In stories of Unknown Mexico, which sweep in and out of one's view and hearing, there is here and there a touch that makes its lasting impression. Ancient Indians, long dead civilizations, and ruined abbreys all have their own peculiar interest, general in a way, but in the final analysis of chief interest to the archaeologist. But there are other tales of old Mexico which are calculated to thrill or at least interest every reader. Such a story would be that of a walled city, still such a city as it was when the walls were built, and now tinged with the romance of the old days which has been softened by imagination and the forgetting of unpleasant things. Here in Mexico is located at least one such city, and, probably without doubt, the possessor of the only ancient walls which still retain their shape, are still unbroken, and still serve in some measure as a part of the city's life. Campeche, the ancient capital of the penitentiary colony of Yucatan is to-day surrounded by the same walls which the Spanish garrisons of the vice-regal days erected in the substantial fashion of the past as a protection against marauding Indians and organized bands of Spanish and Mexican convicts. Campeche is one of the most interesting of hot country capitals. Once the great outlet of the rich peninsula of Yucatan, the city is now but little more than a quiet hot-country town. Campeche is one of the oldest capitals of Mexico. Although the chief port of the criminal colony of Yucatan, the histories tell also of its exports of the riches of the tropics to the great ports of Europe it was Main Gate of City Wall. most prominent in the eyes of seamen as the last sight of Mexico, offen of America, in the long trip across the Atlantic. As such, it was a port which was watched closely by the pirates who infested the sea in those days when the broad American waters were known as the "Spanish Main." To it came the rich Spanish galleons from Vera Cruz and Coatzacoalcos, and from it, with enriched cargoes, they sailed for Cuba and for Spain. It was a great city In those days, when the ships could come close into its shallow but well protected harbor, and as such it was well guarded and garrisoned. The work on the wall was begun in 1692, and an inscription over the principal gate states that it was completed in 1769, having been 77 years in building. In form and walls spread over an irregular seven-sided polygon, with bastions at each of the corners, and massive octagonal forts at the water's edge. The walls are eight meters, or 26 feet high, and are four meters or $12\frac{1}{2}$ feet thick, all of solid masonry, apparently as strong to-day as when they were built, with the exception of the four or five places where the walls have been thrown down to make way for roads communicating with the outside. A moat, now almost obliterated, once surrounded the walls, and was an added protection from surprise. It is worthy of note that in the accounts presented to Carlos IV in 1769, the cost of the fortifications of Campeche are placed at $225,024. As the only walled city in Mexico, Campeche demands a very special attention, but when it is realized that those walls are perfect, that their gray, softening grimness is real and not a stage effect, and that old Spain itself has no more romantic pictures than those to be found about those very walls, one feels that the sight is worth the long trip, and even worth the walks in the sun (though it is easy to let the sun convince one otherwise). The frowning bastions of the corners, where once protruded the old iron cannons which are now stuck muzzle-down in the corners of the gates, the forward walls of the main gate, where riflemen could pick off the parties of attacking Indians or convicts, and the rare old main gate itself, with its little lookout, the balcony windows from which the challenges once came, are all touches which one does not realize can be encountered anywhere but in Europe. Yet here in Campeche they stand, as romantic and silent and natural as though they had been built in the days of El Cid and not in the more prosaic epoch of Charles the Fourth, when walls were a questionable protection, and chivalry was of the type of Don Quixote. Reminded. Wedderly—Those two women over there in the act of saying "good-by" to each other remind me of one of Shakespeare's plays. Singleton—Which one? Wedderly — 'Much Adieu About Nothing"—Chicago Daily News. Gen. Wade Has Served Country for Nearly 50 Years. Washington.—Maj. Gen. James F. Wade was retired from active service a few days ago, having reached the age limit, 64 years. Forty-six years, of this time he has devoted to the service of his country. At the opening of the civil war he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth regiment, which was organized in this part of the state. Shortly afterward he was made first lieutenant in the Sixth United States cavalry. He was in active service through the entire war—serving for some time on Gen. Sherr- 11 GEN. JAMES F. WADE. (Army Officer Recently Placed on the Retired List.) dan's staff, and also with Gen. Pleasonton. Toward the close of the war he was in command of the Fifth volunteer colored cavalry. He received many bievets for gallantry and was mustered out of the volunteer service April 15, 1866. He did not join his regiment, the Sixth United States cavalry, but took a leave, and while spending the summer in Jefferson, was offered a majority in the Ninth United States colored cavalry. He was with that regiment 13 years, serving most of the time in Texas and New Mexico. In 1879 he was promoted to Lieut. Col. of the Eighteenth cavalry, and served with that regiment in Texas and Arizona, until 1887, when he was promoted to colonel of the Fifth cavalry, with service in the Indian Territory and Texas, until 1897, when he was made a brigadier general and placed in command of the department of Dakota, with headquarters at St. Paul, Minn. At the opening of the Spanish war he was made major general of volunteers and sent south to assist in the organization of troops, hoping and expecting that he would be sent to Cuba. At the end of the war, he was mistered out of the volunteer service and returned to St. Paul. In 1901 he was ordered to the Philippines and served there nearly four years. During that time he was appointed major general in the regular army and was in command of the division of the Philippines for more than a year. Upon his return to the United States he was placed in command of the division of the Atlantic headquarters on Governors Island, N. Y. for the remainder of his term of active service. CRADLE ROCKED BY THE WIND. The Gilyak Baby Is Put to Sleep In Odd Contrivance. New York.—"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" has no significance among the Glyaks, who live in the northern part of the Island 1 A Wind Cradle. of Saghalln. Their cradles are not rocked by hand. They are suspended instead from the swinging branches of trees outside in fine weather, just as they were in the days of Peter the Great. It is said that, Russia's famous ruler was when a child rocked to sleep in a cradle of this kind, as shown in the accompanying picture. The cradle of the Gilyak baby is made from pieces of bark bent to the required shape and fastened together by thongs of deerskin. There are a hood and two rings from, which to suspend the cradle, but there are no rockers or springs. On fine days the Giliyak mother suspends the cradle from the branch of a slender tree rocked by the wind and puts her baby to sleep there without having to do any cradle-rocking herself. In disagreeable weather it is different. The cradle is suspended from the rafters Indoors. A Persistent-Creditor. George—A thoroughbred gentleman puts on his clothes and then forgets them. Ned—T'n's what I try to do; but my taller w'n't let me. PACIFIC CITRUS CROP PRODUCT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VALUED AT $20,000,000. Estimated That 27,000 Cars Will Be Shipped by Close of Season in June—Good Returns for the Growers. Los Angeles, Cal.—With a total crop of 27,000 cars, the present citrus season, while not the most successful in the history of southern California, will be among the best money makers. Shlpments to this time have been less by more than 500 cars than for the same time last year, but it is explained that this is due to conditions that prevented the crop from being moved at all prior to Feb. 1, while since the fruit has gone to market in volume more than sufficient to offset the time that was lost. For the first three months of 1907 the total number of cars sent to market aggregated 12,226, of which 3,500 cars were lemons. During the same time there had been sent out 2,749 cars of vegetables, as against 2,532 cars for the same time in 1906, and a total of 2,001 cars of vegetables forwarded in the first three months of 1905. So far this season, it is said by those in position to know, the citrus market has been in a condition that has proved of exceptional value to the grower, because the market has not been overcrowded at any time. In fact, conditions never were better. Inexplanation of the published stories of an alleged car shortage during February it is explained at Southern Pacific and Santa Fe headquarters that independent shippers caused the tales then in circulation to be sprung so as to create a bear market that would enable them to pick up fruit at bottom prices. It is claimed that shippers affiliated with the California Citrus union informed the railroads at the time that they were supplying cars exactly as they were needed, and that reports of fruit being in danger of spoiling for lack of shipping facilities were without foundation. It is claimed that in February, this year, more cars were being moved every day than during the same month last year and about the same number as were moved daily during February in 1905. And that in March, this year, the same conditions were in effect, except that the difference in favor of 1907 was even more noticeable. Last year the total crop aggregated 26,000 cars. In 1905 it was a 30,000 car crop. This year the estimate is for a crop of 27,000 cars. With market conditions as they are it is estimated the crop this year will bring to southern California close to $20,000,000, of which sum the growers will get half, nearly all the remainder going to the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific. The Salt Lake line has lost 80 per cent of its shipments, due to the fact that it has had no overland service for six weeks. With conditions normal the Santa Fe obtains about 50 per cent of the business, the remainder going to the Southern Pacific with about 30 per cent, and the Clark line with about 15 per cent. It is claimed that the three initial lines no longer pool for the traffic, although when one system is short of cars and the others have them to space they are loaned for mutual advantage. Westerner Leases Mussel Bed to Work Out Odd Theory. Omaha, Neb.—Following the supposed discovery that the pearl is the result of a microbe that finds its way into an oyster or mussel, Harry Marks has determined to go into the business of raising jewels on a large scale. He has leased a large mussel bed, and during the summer he intends to inoculate several hundred bushels of the bivalves with the choicest microbes from the Gulf of Aden. The difficulty has been to determine the characteristics of the germs, and much time was spent in this work. Now he is convinced that he has the real thing. It will take three years to develop the pearls, but when they do reach marketable size the owner of the peart farm declares they will bring him in millions. UNEARTH OLD INDIAN CAMP. Workmen at Houston, O., Find Skel ton and Three Fire Beds. Piqua, O —Traces of an Indian camp or village have been unearthed at Houston During the excavating for a new school building, which is being erected on a high hill there, the workmen uncovered free distance firebeds which were 15 inches under the surface. The beds were from eight to ten feet in diameter, covered with ashes. A human skeleton was unearthed in the middle one. The skull was intact and the skeleton was in a sitting posture. When touched the bones crumbled to pieces. The teeth were in a good state of preservation. The spot is supposed to have been an Indian village many years ago and is on the old Anthony Wayne trail. No Whiskers on This Road. Burlington, Ia.—Orders have been issued to conductors on the Burlington road to have clean shaven chins, to shave every other day, e. chew celluloid collars and wear white ties and white linen polishcoats. Conductor D. E. Dana, who has been wearing a beard for 35 years, will have to cut it off. SEA CAPTAIN HOLDS RECORD. James F. Murphy Has Sailed 56 Times Around Horn In 32 Years. Baltimore, Md. — Fifty-six times around Cape Horn as master is record held by only one man in the world, it is said, and he is Capt. James F. Murphy, in command of the four mast Bath steel ship William P. Frye, now at this port. The fifty-seventh venture through the "roaring fortles" and around the Horn will be started from Baltimore as soon as the Fry is loaded with coal for San Francisco. Born in Bath, Me., the home of the great sailing vessels, he went early to sea. His first command was the ship David Brown of Searsport, Me. This was in 1871. Entering the employ of Arthur Sewall, of Bath, he followed in the Alexander, Yorktown, William F. Babcock, Shenandoah, Kenillworth, Arthur Sewall, and then the William P. Frye, his present command. After four years ashore he returns to the Cape Horn voyages in the same ship he left for a supposed release from sea life. In his voyaging around the Horn Capt. Murphy computes the distances made at 900,000 miles. "During these trips," said Capt. Murphy, "I never had an accident to a ship and never went through the trials of having trouble with my crews. Mutinous men never cropped up on any ship I ever commanded in that time." BABY MADE OF TOBACCO. Ingenious Device for Smuggling Into France. Paris.—When a train arrived at the Lyons station from Marselles a nurse stepped on the platform holding a baby, over whose face was a thick veil to protect it from the cold. The nurse carried the baby somewhat clumsily and her general gait was so awkward that M. Bordere, the special customs officer deemed it his duty to put a few questions to her. He therefore invited the nurse into his office for a little talk. There he made the discovery that the nurse was carrying a queer kind of baby. It was contraband tobacco. The officer turned his attention from the box to the woman's opulent bosom. The dimensions made him suspicious. Its unusual fullness was explained by the fact that it was a deposit for tobacco. The nurse's hat, unusually big, was found to be full of cigars, and her back hair, turned up in a fine bunch was utilized as a hiding place for fine tobacco. During so long a journey from Marseilles to Paris the supposed baby required a bed. The two little mattresses were examined and in them were found boxes of matches of foreign manufacture. There is a heavy duty on the goods, which were seized. QUEER TANGLE OVER ESTATE. Half Brothers and Sisters, With Their Heirs in Legal Fight. Bloomington, Ill.—Litigation has commenced in Vermillion county among 60 heirs over the construction of a will made 40 years ago and which has been but recently resurrected. It was written by William Carter, of Homer, and the fact that he was twice married complicated matters. The will gave one-half the estate to the seven children by the first marriage and the other half to the seven children by the second marriage. The mother of the latter children held their share in trust until her death, which occurred recently. In the meantime three children by the second marriage died and the children by the first marriage now file a claim for their share of the property due to the dead children, basing the claim as half brothers and half sisters. The law says that half brothers and sisters have the same right as full brothers. The children by the second marriage dispute the claim and a unique legal fight is assured. About $50,000 is involved. OLD DITCH FOUND IN ROME. Believed to Have Been Made by Founders of Palatine Acropolis. Rome.—While celebrating the two thousand six hundred and sixtieth anniversary of Rome, the founding of which is supposed to have taken place April 21 in the year 753 B. C., a most important discovery was made on Palatine hill. While trying to determine the entrance to the Palatine Acropolis and also to explore the Necropolis a circular ditch was found, evidently a pit or tomb. It is similar to those discovered on the Roman forum and is believed to be connected with the earliest inhabitation and to have been constructed by the founders of the Palatine stronghold, as it is known the Acropolis was reserved for the leaders in Palatine and that the tombs surrounding it within the second range of fortified walls were only for the burial of patrician families. Miflister of Instruction Rava visited the spot and ordered a continuation of the excavations. Bac Fixtures Found Guilty. Arkansas City, Kan.—A constable destroyed 33 cases filled with bottles and a quantity of beer, whisky and other liquors, which were captured in recent raids on joints in Arkansas City. The goods and bar fixtures were tried and found guilty, and ordered destroyed by the court. The beer and liquors were spilled, and the cases with three homemade bars, and other fixtures were burned. ODD GIFT TO BRIDE FATHER GIVES WEIGHT IN SOAP AS DOWRY. Chocolate, Coal and Silver Also Figure In Wedding Presents Made by the Parents Interested. London.—A valuable wife in the present state of the soap trade must be the woman M. Le Blanc, a Parisian has just married. The bride, who was the daughter of a hairdresser in a large way of business, not only received from her father a handsome dot in money, but her own weight in the best toilet soap. As she weighed close to 140 pounds, the couple will possess sufficient soap to last them for some years to come. When asked by his prospective fa ther-in-law, a flourishing West end to bacconist, to name the gift he would like to receive on his wedding day, the young man suggested a few boxes of cigars as being of more use than the usual presents presented on such occasions. "Very well; you shall have my daughter's weight in cigars," said the other. He was as good as his words. The bride weighed 128 pounds. Mile. Marie Brie, the niece of a Marselles confectioner, received from her uncle on her marriage three years ago an eccentric gift in the form of her own weight in chocolate. Perhaps the worthy patissier had in mind when making the present the custom which prevails in Peru. There, on the marriage morn, the bride is actually weighed, and after the ceremony the bridegroom is presented by his wife's relatives with her weight in sugar. A Yorkshire coal merchant's present to his daughter on her marriage was to be regulated by her weight, for every pound of which she is to be the recipient of a ton of the best coal. His intention, which he communicated to her on the day she became engaged, stirred her, as she was a young woman of frugal mind, to emulate the fat women of the fairs, so that during the six months her engagement lasted her value went up ten tons. Doubtless she would have made further inroads into her father's store had not that worthy merchant hurriedly married her off at a loss of only 172 tons. The father of a girl living in the town of Koniggratz offered to present anyone who should become her husband with her weight in silver currency. As she was well favored and of a build which, although not exceptionally stout, promised an amount ample to make a good start in business, more than one claimant appeared. The most eligible was at length selected and the wedding duly solemnized. Then came the most important function, the weighing of the bride, who, to her husband's delight, was found to weigh 155 pounds, or 13,500 kronen, an equivalent to $2,812. BOY SEEMS UNDER BAN. Blind, Deaf and Dumb, No Institution Opens Its Doors to Him. Bellefontaine, O.-The disposition that is to be made with Wilbur Reynolds, age seven years, who cannot see, hear, or speak, now rests with Gov. Harris. Neither the Logan county infirmary nor the children's home has accommodations for the almost helpless child. He was sent to the blind asylum by Probate Judge Plum of Logan county some time ago, but the superintendent there said he could not keep the child because he was also deaf and dumb. Then he was transferred to the deaf and dumb asylum, but now the superintendent there says he has notified the Logan county officers that the child cannot remain there because they have failed to make any progress with him, and he thinks the boy is not mentally competent. When application was made for the admission of the unfortunate boy to the imbecile asylum the superintendent of that institution said he would not take him because his institution was crowded. He refused to accept the charge from the Logan county officials. Now, the matter has been laid before the governor to see in what institution he thinks the boy belongs. In the meantime the child is at the deaf and dumb asylum, but the superintendent insists that he will have to be removed from there. PAGE "AD" FOR BIBLE CLASS. Resort to Publicity Brings 150 New Members at a Time. Knoxville, Tenn.—The Cumberland men's Bible class, which inserted a page advertisement in a local newspaper last spring, and was discussed throughout the country, had another page advertisement to-day. The class is part of the Sunday school of the First Cumberland Presbyterian church. Its teacher is O. P. Sterling, a business man. "Advertising pays in business. Why won't it pay in a Sunday school?" asked Sterling of the Rev. W. T. Rogers, the pastor, and the plan was adopted. One hundred and fifty new members were the result. Now 150 more are wanted. A paragraph in the advertisement reads: "Men—Give us your attention a moment. The world to-day is crying more than ever for men of Christian character. Great corporations, financiers, business men are joining in this great appeal for men of merit and Christian integrity." LINCOLN PREACHER IS DEAD. Rev. Andrew C. Hubbard, D.D., one of the clergymen who officiated at the funeral of President Lincoln, died at Danbury, Conn., of heart disease. He had been pastor of Danbury Baptist Church since 1868. Bronson B. Phillips, the proprietor of the Phillips Employment Agency, was before the Commissioners Wednesday afternoon on charges. His case was presented by Attorney W. Calvin Chase. Old Dixle Rye —An excellent quality whiskey that's unusually old, clean and tasting. $5 gal. $1.25 qt. 65c pt. CHRISTIAN XANDER'S Quality House 909 7th St. 'Phone M 274 Established 1866. Gold and silver watches, diamonds, jewelry, pins, mechanical tools, parel. Old gold and silver bought. Unredeemed pledges for sale. 361 Pennsylvania Avenue. N. W. JOHN E. MCGAW, Pres. and Gen'l Mgr. JOSEPH T. PEAKE, Sec'y-Treas. COLUMBIA ICE COMPANY, Also RETAIL -DEALERS IN WOOD AND COAL. Cor. FIFTH AND L STREETS, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. TELEPHONE, MAIN 272. GOOD RED BLOOD MAKES YOU FEEL GREAT. Graham's Sulphur Compound. This is a compound cleansing tonic remedy which we can recommend to those who desire a general blood and system medicine. Suitable for spring. It is an excellent blood purifier and enricher. Make a run-down, tired person eat better, feel better, sleep better and look better. It is a reliable, meritorious article, guaranteed under the pure drug law, and backed by the manufacturer's personal guarantee that if it does not give good results in every case the money paid will be promptly and cheerfully refunded. Especially beneficial in eczema, skin troubles, boils, pimples or any blood impurity. A STRONG TESTIMONIAL: I had a terrible case of eczema with intense itching, and after trying several physicians and a number of proprietary preparations without results, a friend advised me to take Graham's Sulphur Compound. I took two bottles, and am happy to say it effected a complete cure. Respectfully, W. D. ARRISON, Cigar Dealer, 200 5th St., S. E., Washington, D. C. Doesn't the above convince you? This is only one of many genuine testimonials from well-known Washington people. $1.50 COUPON $1.50 Present this Coupon and we will give you the mammoth $1.50 size Graham's Sulphur Compound for $1.02. Only one bottle to a customer, and the Coupon must be presented. : : : $1.50 COUPON $1.50 Sold by all Druggists. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE, Special Agents, 824 Seventh St, N. W., Washington, D. C. As American Negro named Davis was maltreated at Puerto-Cortez, Honduras. Commander Fullam, U. S. N., lauded a party of blue jackets, arrested the Nicaraguan Chief of Police and placed him and others in irons. If Davis dies the guilty ones will be tried for murder and hanged. STUDY LAW THE ORIGINAL SCHOOL. Instruction by mail adopted to everyone. Required by courts and district. Experienced and competent instructors. Takes spare time only. Three courses—Preparatory, Business, College. Prepares for practice. Will better meet conditions and prospects in business. Students and grad takes everywhere. Full AT HOME particulars and special offer PLEASE THE OPRAUSE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW. 844 MARITTE RD. DETROIT, MICH. LEGAL NOTICES. JOHN E. COLLINS, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding a Probate Court. Estate of Margaret Mathews, deceased. No. 14,185. Administration Docket 36. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by James L. Mathews, it is ordered this 16th day of April, A. D. 1907. Lewis Hawkins, Lottie Brown and Joseph Porter and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Monday, the 27th day of May, A. D. 1907, at 10 o'clock A. M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and She 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. Ashley M. Gould, Justice. W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. John E. Collins, Attorney. W. C. MARTIN, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- TRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding a Probate Court. No. 14,333, Administration. This is to give notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of Wiley A. Bailey, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 26th day of March, A. D. 1908; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 26th day of March, 1907. Ada L. Bailey, 1518 New Jersey avenue, N. W. James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. C. Martin, Attorney. L. MELENDEZ KING, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- No. 14419, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of Joseph West, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 22d day of April, A.D. 1908; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 22d day of April, 1907. Attest—James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. ZEPH P. MOORE, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding a Probate Court. No. 14,406, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia. Letters of Administration on the estate of William J. Bush, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 22d day of April, A. D. 1908; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 25th day of April, 1907. Lucy R. Bush, 208 O St., N. W. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. WSRichardson WSRichardson A stitch in time saves nine. At this drug store are all the freshest drugs, choice perfumes and toilets. Before going to the James-town Exposition get your toilet articles at this store and save money. SODA FOUNTAIN open the year round. RICHARDSON'S, PURE DRUGS, 316 4½ Street, S. N. HOLLY MOUNT PURE RYE WHISKEY. Sold Only By JOHN F. MEENEHAN 14th St. and Rhode Isla N. W. WASHINGTON. Phone N. 3166. DRUG STORES One of the most successful drugists in South Washington is Mr. George W. Murray, Second and C streets. He is affable, and his drugs are always fresh. If you want Easter goods, don't fail to call and see him RICHARDSON'S This is an up-to-date drug store where you get everything you want in the drug line. Everybody in South Washington knows Dr. Richardson For Rent.—Three good office rooms and lodge rooms for rent. See W R Griffin, Notary Public, True Reformers' Hall, Twelfth and J Sts., northwest. FOR SALE Stylish, up-to-date canopy top Surrey (for one horse), for $85. Cost $24 three years ago. Highest offer taken at J. Jay Gould, 421 9th street. FOR SALE Colonial Beach lot for sale, only $125, on high land, near the wharf, size, 50 by 150 feet. J. J Gould, 421 Ninth street. HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN Secured by This New Union Order—Grows By Leaps and Bounds—Started Five Years Ago with Nothing But a "Principle"—Now Has Over 400 Subordinate Lodges and 36,000 Members. Over 30,000 homes have filled with joy, protection of a great and good Order, which is using its influence to secure better our people. This is the first great Union Order in this ing an International Union from the Courts, which gives protection and Benefits to our There is no color, race or crimination in this Order. It has an equal standing with members, and can be elected any office. Every effort is made the condition of the securing equal opportunities with other workmen, to learn and to have steady work at and Union hours. The Grand Lodge donates the burial of each deceased in fine monthly Journal is published Membership Book of the organized by all Lodges every tressed members are as a member and Subordinate in privilege of buying stock in on low monthly payment paying 8 per cent interest. A Leading Station in each locality. AT 10 Lodges, sell Buttons, take scripts, sell Steel and TRICT DEPARTMENT work can be done in many are deiving their attention to it. Is made good hustle. Write at once. Write paper, and enclose formation and postage. THE I. L. U. 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