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VOL. 29 NO 6 Bishop Hood Rebukes Corrothers and Walters NO OPEN DOOR FOR THE NEGRO IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. BY BISHOP J. W. HOOD (Senior Bishop of the A. M. E. Zion Church.) As might have been expected, the appeal on behalf of the Negro made by our good friend, Colone' Watterson, was made in vain. I have been cognizant of the spirit of the National Democratic party for more than sixty years, and for this whole period that party has been against the Negro. It has been responsible for every national act against the Negro, including the Fugitive Slave Law, "the sum of all villainies." It has also opposed every national act in the Negro's favor. It therefore could not have been expected to change its heart so quickly. Those Negro politicians who have been in private communication with' the leader of that party ought to realize that they are taking a course which is calculated, if not designed, to deceive and mislead our people. This is not the time for the Negro to support the National Democratic ticket. It is to be hoped that the time may come, but conditions are strongly against it now. In the South there is hesitation in the Republican party to recognize the political rights of the Negro. The leaders of what is called the "Lily Whites" seem to be trying to show that they have no more use for the Negro than the Democrats have (hardly as much). Any man among them who is supposed to be at all favorable to the Negro is often turned down. With this state of affairs in the South, the Negro is perfectly safe in taking his choice of the candidates presented by the two parties. He is not allowed a voice in the nomination of either in some of the States South, and both he'd similar views respecting his political rights. But in the North it is different. There the Negro is recognized from start to finish. And there is another difference. In the South the mass of the best people are Democrats; but in the North the mass of the best people are Republicans. In voting the Republican ticket in the North the Negro lines up with the best people, and in support of the best measures. The National Democratic party has always been controlled by the pro-slavery and anti-Negro sentiment, and is still controlled by the same sentiment. This being the case, I repeat, it is not the time for the Negro to vote for the national candidates of that party: I have a fear that it would be a fatal blunder. It will be remembered that the Negro made two great blunders in the State of North Carolina which were the cause, very largely, of his disfranchisement in that State. If the Negro had lined up with the best white people in that State and prohibition had been adopted, largely by his vote in 1881, he would never have been disfranchised in that State. The men with whom the better class of Negroes were allied would never have permitted the disfranchisement of the race if the race had stood with them in that struggle. I did all I could to persuade my people to take the wise course, but many of the thoughtless Negro politicians said some very unkind things about all who favored prohibition. "Something behind it" was the slogan of the antis. Our people were made to believe that it was a step toward their re-enslavement. Prohibition was defeated, and the Negro was blamed for it; although he was not responsible for it. We were getting somewhat over this when the last, the fatal, blunder was made; namely, when Judge Russell was elected governor, largely by the Negro vote. It is doubtful if any man ever hated the Negro more than Judge Russell did. I opposed his nomination, which, when he learned it he wrote asking me to let up. I refused, and then he wrote me a bitter letter. His inaugural address indicated that his adminstration was to be one of hate, spite and vengeance. He seemed determined to do all he could to vex the best whites and to bring down their wrath upon the Negro, who was largely responsible for his election. His action was what I expected. All know the result. As a watchman on the wall I see a new danger, and now sound the alarm. A greater blunder and on a larger scale is now threatened. Should Bryan be elected, largely by the Negro vote, we should bring down upon ourselves the wrath of this nation. What good reason can we give for supporting Bryan against Taft? To spite the President? Spite work never pays. Children might do spite work, but it seems to me that our race leaders have had time to get away from childhood. But have they thought of the great interests that are invovled in this election? The vast variety of interests in which eighty millions of people are concerned? Can we feel justified in permitting one incident to outweigh in our minds everything else that the nation holds dear? Nobody knows what Bryan would do if elected. We know what he would like to do if he could just have his way. He would like to have the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1; that is, he would like to have fifty cents worth of silver to pass for one dollar, so that your salaries or wages would be worth just half what they are now. This is dropped from his present platform, as several other things are, in order to catch votes. The serpent is still a serpent, notwithstanding he has crawled out of his last year's coat and left it in the briers. But the old silver coat has not been left in the briers; it has been carefully put away in the wardrobe, to be taken out and worn again when convenient. The same is true of other issues which have been dropped out of sight to keep them from frightening voters. Many Democrats are afraid of him, and many more will cast a vote for him with the hand while praying in their hearts for the election of Taft. The Denver platform and the Denver candidates are a menace to the entire business interests of the countruy, and also a menace to our judicial system. It is not believed by the conservative sentiment of the country that Bryan can be elected. Anarchism, socialism, and the other issues have their candidates which will absorb much of the radical forces. The only hope for the Democratic ticket is that a sufficient amount of the Negro vote in a few of the Northern States can be fooled or induced by other means known to politicians, to vote against Taft and thus defeat him. The Negro leaders who are giving their aid to this dangerous movement have assumed a fearful responsibility. The Negro has shown on many battlefields that he can be counted on in time of war. He needs now to show the broad, calm, clear, intelligent, wise and unselfish ability to measure up to the highest demands of good citizenship and of praiseworthy efforts in the arts of peace. He needs to show that he can use the ballot, if possible, to better effect than he used the sword. The best people in the land are supporting Taft, and we cannot afford to line up with any but the best. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS. Fred Holland, a deaf-mute subject to epilepsy, and Agnes Sexton, a mute and an invalid, were married in Lynn, Mass., lately. German Day will be celebrated at the Bennings race track Monday, September 14. One million copies or over of the speech of acceptance of Judge William H. Taft, as Republican presidential candidate, will be printed in pamphlet form for general distribution over the United States. "Wanted—Men to act as dummies for street car fenders; wages, $2 per day; no questions asked; references or experience not necessary," is what Pittsburg is asking for. The test of the new fenders on the cars will be with live men. Mrs. Jennie Wilson died last Monday night while being conveyed to the Emergency Hospital in the ambulance. Work has been commenced on a theater for the insane at the Government Hospital. This building will be up to date and will seat 700 patients and 300 vistors. WASHINGTON WASHINGTON,D.C., SATURDAY AUGUST WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY AUGUST 1, 1908. Denies His Authority Denies His Authority ANSWER TO THE RACE REVOLT. To the Edigor of the Washington Bee: Allow space in your paper to make a statement relative to the position taken by the Colored Baptist Ministers' Conference of this city,who represent over twenty-nine thousand members of our churches. There are some members of the race who pose as leaders who represent a few hundred people, claiming to speak for the whole Negro race. Let no one [Image of a man in a suit with a tie, facing slightly to the right]. M. MR LLM R DOVER deceive himself or the people of this country by crying that the Negro will vote the Democratic ticket. The Negro of this country, a majority of them at least, is not ready to go into the Democratic party, and we will not let a matter like this go undenied or uncontradicted by us. We deny that two, million of Negro Baptists have authorized any man to speak for them in advocacy of Democracy and the support of Mr. W. J. Bryan for the presidency. What can any Negro see in the Democratic party? Mr. Bryan, has denied the report that he has made any promise to the leaders or the committee that waited on him; furthermore, the president of the National Negro League, Rev. J. Milton Waldron, D.D., is not a member of the Colored Baptist Ministers' Conference of the District of Columbia; neither does he voice the sentiment of the colored Baptists of the District of Columbia nor of the country, while he may a few of his own church. This alliance is composed of the pastors of forty-six regu'ar Baptist churches and one hundred and three preachers, and these churches have a membership of twenty-nine thousand. We believe we voice the sentiment of these people when we say, Let us try the old party again. Done by order of the Colored Baptist Ministers' Conference of the District of Columbia at a regular meeting held in Zion Baptist Church, F street between Third and Four-and-a-half street southwest. Rev. W. D. Jarvis, D.D. President. Rev. J. I. Loving, D.D. Secretary. Rev. J. T. Clark, D.D. Rev. J. A. Taylor, D.D. Rev. W. J. Howard, D.D. Rev. A. Wilbanks, D.D. Rev. P. Stewart, Rev. A. Sayles, Rev. A. Barton, Rev. Limas Rouelac. Committee. Martin R. Preston, of Nevada, convicted of murder, and serving a 22-year term, is the presidential nominee of the Socialist-Labor party. RDAY AUGUST J, 1908. B. K. BRUCE B. K. BRUCE THE REGISTERSHIP OF THE TREASURY. The first colored American to fill the position of Register of the Treasury was the late Blanch K. Bruce, formerly a Senator from the State of Mississippi. There were many politicians who never gave Mr. Bruce the credit for ability to which he was entitled. Those who knew him intimately knew that he was a man of superior executive ability and an orator. Before he would deliver a speech he would write it and revise THE BROADWAY Every word and weigh its import. As Register of the Treasury Mr. Bruce has had no Negro to succeed him who exercised the manhood that he did both terms he held the office. He was the boss of his office, and when any of his subordinates attempted to exercise any authority over it without consulting him he would read the "riot act." There was a vast difference between Mr. Bruce and all other colored men who followed him as Register of the Treasury. When he first took the office the "understrappers," that is, the subordinate clerks or the chiefs of the several divisions, started out to test him, and see just what he would do. Five promotions were to be made in his office, on one occasion, and there were ten persons to be promoted to those five vacancies. Mr. Bruce knew just what they were worth; indeed, he knew every clerk by name. However, he selected the persons to fill those five vacancies and recommended them. To his surprise his letter of recommendation was returned to him with a red line drawn between two of his names, and others substituted. The Register looked at this a few moments and remarked to his confidential secretary, "I wonder what this means." Rising hastily from his seat, he walked to the office of the appointment clerk, and in language more emphatic than a man out of his head could express it demanded to know what this meant, exhibiting his letter with two red lines drawn through two of his names. The clerk remarked in a nervous manner that they had substituted the names because they knew more about the ability of the two men than he did. Quick as a flash, in language more emphatic and well understood by men when there are no ladies around, told him to insert his names at once in language more emphatic, and as they were about to explain Mr. Bruce left. His letter was subsequently returned with all five of the names that he had recommended. From that time up to the day of his death the understrappers never attempted to run the Register's office, and neither did they tempt to recommend anyone or anything without asking Mr. Bruce. Very soon after this the understrappers wanted to transfer one of their friends from another division to the Register's office, but before an attempt was made Mr. Bruce was appealed to and asked to make the transfer, which was done. No deputy register or chief of division would attempt to make transfers or promotions in his absence from the city, and neither did he promote unworthy white men over the heads of deserving colored men in his office. If a colored clerk was entitled to and deserved a promotion, Blanch K. Bruce was the man to do it. There is only one act in Mr.Bruce's political career that he regretted: Just before he was taken ill and died he would promote and elevate his enemies in preference to his friends.He would know that a man was opposed to him politically, and that man would never know that Mr. Bruce knew it, although this same individual would come and ask him to do a favor. Mr. Bruce would invariably do the favor. What has been greatly needed in the Register's office since the death of Blanch K. Bruce is a man with a backkbone. When the backbone of any colored officeholder in authority grows The Bee will say so; but until then The Bee will be honest on all public questions and public men. When a man deserves to be commended the Bee will gladly do so,but not otherwise. A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR Occasionally this city grows a benefactor: a man of broad and unselfish motives and a liberal heart. There is no man in this city more deserving of the patronage and support of the people than Mr. Lewis Jefferson, the manager of the Independent Steamboat and Barge Company, an institution that has shown more liberality to all classes of people, and more particuarly to the colored citizens of this and other cities. By his efforts the people of this city and other cities have been able to enjoy the pleasant steamboat rides, while it is true that other companies discriminate against the race to which he is identified. Every church that wants to give an excursion and every benevolent and beneficial organization seeks Mr. Lewis Jefferson to engage his company's boats. His greatest and most charitable MR. LEWIS JEFFERSON, A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR. act is the tender of his boats to Prof. Booker T. Washington, free of all charges, for Monday, August 24 (see advertisement on the eighth page) to enable Mr. Washington to secure funds enough to pay off the mortgage that is on the home of the late Frederick Douglass. August 24 is the Frederick Douglass Memorial Day at Washington Park. All Washington should turn out and show its appreciation and gratitude for a man who gave the best portion of his life for the freedom of the colored race. Mr. Jefferson has given his boats to Mr. Washington for the benefit of the public. Mr. Jefferson is a man who has for a number of years endeavored to help his people. His management of the Steam and Barge Company is an evidence of his ability, to conduct successful enterprises. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Mrs. Tennie Freeman, a prominent woman of Little Rock, Ark., died very suddenly last week at Pine Bluff. Dr. Forest Battis, of Harrisburg, who graduated from the medical department of Howard University some time ago, was quietly married last week in Philadelphia, Pa. It is stated that the American literature is well liked in Frankfort, and henceforth will occupy a prominent place in the grent Municipal Library there. The newly appointed Assessor of the District, W. P. Richards, took up his new duties last Monday afternoon. Chief of Police George, at Harrisburg, Pa., has issued orders to stop all street pianos and hand organs in that city. While two young women were boating in the Oswego River at Oswego, N. Y., last Monday night, the steering gear of the motor boat broke, and the young women lost their lives. A special appeal is made to the colored people of this city to aid in the work for Camp Pleasant. William L. Montague, who was for many years professor of Latin and modern languages at Amherst College, until his resignation in 1895, died at his home in Amherst. Mass., last Monday after a long illness. It is reported that the National Capital is adequately defended from the attacks of an imaginary enemy. The National Guard is on duty at the Potomac forts. Thomas H. Pickford, owner of the Toronto Apartment House, at Twentieth and P streets, indicted for manslaughter, appeared before Justice Anderson last Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty to the indictment. A new church was organized in this city last Sunday by Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, pastor of the Second Baptist Church. Helen Dingon, a former comic opera singer, died at San Francisco last Saturday in extreme poverty. The Baltimore and Washington Transit Company deposited $1,000 to guarantee the completion of the road and carrying of passengers within the two-years' limit. It seems that the Maryland officials are determined to put an end to Sunday frolicking. Public Printer Leech has concluded that the health of the 4,200 workers in the Government Printing Office needs attention, so Dr. William J Manning has been reinstated,"having charge of the sanitation of the entire plant." Great excitement was caused in Shiloh Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., a few Sundays ago, when a member fainted just as she raised the Communion cup to her lips. It has been said that the late Bishop Potter was a firm believer in personal freedom on public questions. The most popular shoe at this time is the tan in all shades in canvas, and kid in many shapes and trimmings. The inspectors appointed to enforce the Child Labor law are kept quite busy. A young man in Worcester, Mass., was married last week to his young stepmother, who is his senior by three years. Mrs. Frank Leslie, who has just returned from a trip abroad, says the English women year clinging dresses with no underskirt, and she says the sheath gown is indecent. It is reported that the Dutch minister has been expelled from Venezuela by its President. A decision has been reached as to refitting some of the old Japanese battleships with modern improvements and pressing them into service if necessary. The District Commissioners are going to make an effort to collect the special assessments for the extensions of streets in many sections of the city. There was a case of smallpox on board the North German Lloyd steamer Barbarossa, which arrived at New York last Wednesday from Bremen and Cherbourg. TO SERVE CODFISH TO SERVE CODFISH FOUR RECIPES FOR DELICIOUS DISHES. Left-Over Portions May Be Utilized In Patties—Prepared a La Mode —Cooked with Either Maca. ronl or Spaghetti. Codfish a La Mode.—Take a large cupful of salt codfish that has been boiled and finely shredded, add a gill of vinegar, two tablespoons of melted butter, a saltspoon of black pepper, the juice of half a lemon, a little minced parsley, and one egg well beaten. Form in balls with the hand in oval shape, and roll in egg and cracker crumbs. Fry in hot. fat and serve with bechamel sauce. Codfish Patties.—If you have any creamed codfish remaining from breakfast it can be utilized in this way. Make some tiny puff paste shells, baking them in a quick oven; when cold fill with the creamed codfish, lightly dusting with grated nutmeg; cover the top of each shell with a teaspoonful of whipped cream, lightly salted, and return for an instant to a hot oven. Serve with fried parsley and thin slices of lemon. Timbale of Codfish.—Break in short lengths either macaroni or spaghetti, and boll in salted water until tender; dress it with cheese and melted butter according to taste and add one well-beaten egg. Butter and bread crumb a plain mold and when the macaroni is nearly cold fill the mold with it, pressing it well down and leaving a hollow in the center, which should be filled with codfish prepared as follows: Freshen two good sized pieces of codfish by changing the water frequently in which it is soaked, then boll for 20 minutes, putting it on in cold water. Remove from the fire, and shred it finely with a silver fork, adding a small cupful of cream, a tablespoon of melted butter, a dash of cayenne and a teaspoon of onion juice. Cover the top of the mold with a layer of macaroni and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour; turn from the mold and serve garnished with blanched celery. Codfish Chowder.—Fry six slices of fat pork crisp in the bottom of the pot in which you are to make your chowder; take them out and chop them in small pieces, putting them back in the pot with their own gravy. Cover this with a layer of shredded salt codfish that has been freshened in cold water, and continue with layers of minced onions, sliced potatoes, split crackers, tomatoes and parsley; sprinkle with summer savory, cayenne pepper and celery salt. Alternate these layers until the pot is three-quarters full. Pour in enough cold water to partly cover the ingredients and stew gently for one hour, watching that the water does not boil away. When the chowder is thoroughly cooked turn it into the tureen, adding a cupful of rich milk, and serve hot with toasted bread fingers. Oranges for the Lunch Box. Many tourists enjoy putting up a dainty luncheon at home, which may be partaken of whenever liked. In such a box a little corner filled with oranges is sure to be most appreciated. Select large navel oranges, free from skin and all the bitter white which sometimes clings to the fruit, and separate into sections. If the orange sections are long, cut them half through in two different places with a sharp knife, or if the sections are short cut them only in the center. Pack them at once, and very closely, in paraffin paper in either a tin cracker box or a pasteboard box. The juice will not run out if the fruit is carefully handled, and a section will quench thirst much more effectively than water, and they can be taken out of the box without soiling the gloves. For Timing Eggs An egg alarm is one of the latest additions to the kitchen equipment. It is a German invention, at least it comes to us from that country, and is intended to act as a reminder to the cook when the eggs are done. It is made of an oblong piece of porcelain fitted in the center with a clock, dial and an alarm bell. The dial is marked off into minute sections up to the number of five. When the eggs are put into the water the alarm is set for two, three, four or five minutes and the cook need not be bothered with watching the clock to see that the eggs do not boll too hard. When the time is up the bell rings sharply as a signal that the eggs are done just right. Making Mint Sauce. For a good, simple way of making old-fashioned mint sauce use one large tablespoonful of chopped mint, three-fourths of a cup of vinegar and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Mix the three together and let them stand an hour; then serve. Delmonico's rule for mint sauce differs from any other rule. It calls for one-quarter of a bunch of finely-minced mint leaves, half a cupful of water, half a cupful of broth or consomme, four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, a tablespoonful of salt and half an ounce of sugar. Mix together and serve in a sauce bowl. Good Fish Salad Soak two big salt herring in water over night. Then; clean fish of all bones and skin and chop fine. Chop six or seven boiled potatoes and five boiled red beets and two big onions. Mix all together with pepper and enough vinegar to soften the mixture. Press hard in molds and when shaped turn out on a flat plate. Chop the whites and yolks of three hard boiled eggs separately. Then decorate the top with alternate rows of whites, yolks and beets. BEST WAY TO CLEAN ZINC. Sulphuric Acid Will Do It, But It Must Be Handied with Care. Zinc is one of the most difficult metals to keep bright and stainless. It can be cleaned with sulphuric acid but the greatest care must be observed in using this strong chemical. If you will do the work yourself, or have it done under your personal supervision, you will find this method satisfactory: Have the zinc well washed with soap and hot water, that no trace of grease may remain on it; wipe it very dry. Make two mops by fastening pieces of cloth on two sticks; have on hand two pails of clean, cold water and a cleaning cloth. Put into a stoneware bowl one quart of cold water and very gradually add three ounces of sulphuric acid. Be very careful not to allow the acid to touch your hands. Dip one of the mops in the acid water and swab the zinc; in a few seconds it will begin to look bright and clear. When this occurs wash with the second mop and clear water; follow this with a good washing with a cloth and water to which household ammonia has been added in the proportion of a tablespoonful of ammonia to a quart of water. Rub the cleansed surface with dry whiting. Be sure to add the acid to the water, and not the water to the acid. TO MARINADE OR LARD MEAT. Two Processes That Will Distinctly Improve the Flavor. While meats are so very high, many a housewife will buy the cheaper cuts, and marinade them to make them tender. Marinading is a process with a formidable name and a simple meaning. To marinade is simply to soak meat in a mixture for some hours, or even days, with the idea of improving its flavor or softening its fibers and making it tender. Vinegar, oil, pepper and salt are mixed together, and the meat is packed in the mixture; sometimes a slice of onion and some herbs are added. The meat should, of course, be wiped first, but not washed. The process is more frequently used for meat than for fish. Larding is quite easy—it only requires care and accuracy. It simply needs a larding needle and some neatly and evenly cut strips of fat bacon or pork, which are used exactly as if they were pieces of wool or thread, one large stitch being taken through the meat and the short ends of the fat left sticking out. The strips are called lardons. The fat bacon or pork to be used in the process should be kept in a cold place. Use that part of the pork which lies between the rind and the vein. Lean and dry meat and some kinds of game are much improved by larding. Maple Sugar Cake Put one pound of shaved maple sugar, one-half of a pound of butter and four tablespoonfuls of milk in a saucepan; let it cook slowly until the butter is melted; take from the fire and cool slightly, but add while still hot one-half of an ounce (one tablespoonful) of ground ginger and three-quarters of a pound of sifted flour. Beat thoroughly, add a heaping tablespoonful of baking powder and bake in thin sheets. This quantity of flour will be too much for spring wheat, but I should add a little at a time until the cake¹ is the proper consistency. This is very rich and delicious, but should be used while warm. More flour may be added to the same batter, the baking powder omitted; the dough after being well worked may be rolled thin, cut in small cakes and baked in a moderate oven. Country Sausage Peel and core two pounds apples and finely slice them; also slice four peeled bananas the same way. Place in a saucepan with an ounce of melted butter, three salt spoons of salt, and a salt spoon of cayenne pepper. Cover pan, then set in the oven 25 minutes. Remove from the oven, press through a sieve into another saucepan, and keep hot. Pierce the skins of 12 raw country sausages. Heat a tablespoon of melted butter in a frying pan, add sausages and fry five minutes on each side. Nicely dress the purée of apples and bananas on a hot dish, arrange sausages over it, remove fat from saucepan, pour in half a gill of port wine, boll three minutes, pour over sausages, and serve. Grape Juice Punch. This is excellent and has the merit of being non-alcoholic. Cook together one pound sugar and a half-pint water until it spins a thread. Take from the fire and turn over a large cup of strong tea. Add the juice of six lemons and the same number of oranges, with a quart of grape juice, and stand over night. When ready to serve add sliced fruits and the water, plain or mineral, with ice in the punch bowl. If desired, cut a half pound marshmallows into quarters and allow three to each glass. To Fry Tenderloin. Cut across the grain of the loin, beat an egg, place the meat on the chopping board endwise; mash it, then dip in the beaten egg that has been salted, have ready cracker crumbs, and dip alternately; fry in hot butter. Home Cures. Wet a cloth, put red pepper over it, and apply where pain is—a sure cure for neuralgia. To cure a cold in head or break up a cold pour spirits of camphor on hands and inhale through mouth and nose. Three Soups That Are Very Popular Across the Water. French soups have delicious flavors. According to Everyday Housekeeping we may have three that are very popular. Potage a la Marceau: Ingredients—Two turnips, two ounces butter, one quart of broth or stock, a slice of pumpkin, a small piece of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of cream, some crountons of fried bread. Method—Chop up finely the turnips, and toss them in butter till they are a golden brown. Add to this the pumpkin boiled in the broth. Pass the soup through a sleeve, adding to it a small piece of sugar, the cream, and crountons of bread fried a golden brown in butter. Potage a la d'Aumale: Ingredients —Twenty-four large mussels, a small bunch of parsley, one onion, three pints of beef broth, cruotes of bread. Method—Scrape and wash the mussels. Cook them in water with the parsley and onion (sliced). Then take the mussels out of the shells and trim them. Place them in a soup tureen with the cruotes of bread, which have previously been browned in the oven. Strain the broth and add to it a pint of boiling milk, sweetened with a lump of sugar. Pour the soup into the tureen containing the cruotes and mussels and serve. Potage a fa Colbert: Ingredients—Some spring vegetables, three poached eggs, tabasco or Worcestershire sauce, a few shreds of chervil, three pints of clear soup. Method—Cut a few spring vegetables into fancy shapes and boil them in salted water. Drain them and cook in the consomme. Just before serving the soup poach the eggs and place them in the tureen, also the sauce, and some chopped chervil. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To cover the pan in which fish is cooking will make the flesh soft. All lard to fry fritters and doughnuts must be very, very hot before putting in the batter. Black lead mixed with vinegar will be found to give a specially good polish to the kitchen stove. A piece of flannel dampened with spirits of camphor will remove stains from mirrors or window glass. Rub over new tinware with lard and thoroughly heat it in the oven before using it, for thus it is protected from rust. When washing lace never rinse it in blue water, with the idea of improving its color. Real lace should be finally rinsed in skim milk, which will give it a soft creamy color. Carpets should be beaten on the wrong side first and then, more gently on the right. Never put a carpet down on a damp floor, for this often results in the carpet becoming mildewed. If, when using lemon for flavoring, you need only half a one, put the other half on a plate and cover with a glass tumbler. This excludes the air and prevents it from drying up or getting moldy. Iced Cabinet Pudding Rub two ounces of stale ladyfingers and two macaroons through a coarse sleeve; beat six eggs until light, with four ounces of pulverized sugar; stir this into a quart of milk, brought to the boll in a double boiler, and continue to stir until it coats a knife blade. Take from the fire and add one-fourth box of gelatin which has soaked in a little cold water for an hour; strain and stand aside to cool. Line the bottom and sides of a melon mold with preserved or candled cherries, slices of quince or pineapple or any kind of preserved fruit and put in a layer of broken sponge cake. Sprinkle with the pounded macaroons and ladyfingers; add a layer of fruit, and so on until all is used. Cover with whipped cream and set the pudding on ice until ready to be served. All In the Serving. Even an ordinary pudding of a creamy nature takes on a new appearance if served in the tall-stemmed sherbet glasses. A tasty pudding served in this way at a recent dinner was made with rice and chocolate, topped with whipped cream. The pudding is made in the same way as the ordinary creamy baked rice pudding except that grated chocolate is added. A baked custard, topped with whipped cream and dotted with Maraschino cherries, came to the table in sherbet glasses the other day. Magic Polishing Cloths. Mix two pounds of whiting and one-half ounce of oleic acid with a gallon of gasoline. Stir and mix thoroughly. In this compound soak flannel rags of the desired size, then wring out and hang up to dry, being careful to keep them away from a fire or open flame. These cloths will give a fine gloss to silverware, will not soil the hands and will preserve their polishing qualities indefinitely.—Woman's Home Companion. To Make Soda Cake. Make Bloomers for Girls. For summer make bloomers of gingham or anything dark and aprons to match for the little girls. This saves washing, while the little one is kept cool during the hot days, as only the apron over the bloomers is needed to play in. DRINKS THAT COOL PLEASANT BEVERAGES FOR HOT SUMMER DAYS. Lime or Lemon Squash is Most Refreshing - Lead Chocolate Bar Lime or lemon squash is one of the most refreshing of the easily made summer drinks. It is prepared by squeezing the juice of two limes into a glass, filling it three-quarters full of cracked ice and adding bottled soda. Sometimes sugar is used, and the only difference between lemonade and lemon squash is in the soda, which is substituted for plain water. Iced chocolate is cooling and leaves a pleasant taste in one's mouth. It is made the same as hot chocolate and well boiled, then get away to cool and served in tall glasses with cracked ice, cream and powdered sugar. It is generally considered a pleasanter and more wholesome drink than either iced tea with lemon or loaded coffee with cream. To make sangaree, a favorite drink of the tropics, take one wineglass and a half of sherry, two wineglasses of water, a grating of nutmeg, some lime peel and about a dessert spoonful of sugar. Mix the sugar and the water together first, then grate the nutmeg over the top, add a strip of lime peel and stir. After which pour in the sherry and serve at once with cracked ice. For pineapple wine cut into thin slices a ripe pineapple, rind and all. Place this in a jar, cover with a quart of water and add some pounded ginger. Cover the jar and let stand for 24 hours. At the end of that time strain and add a pound of sugar, then bottle and serve the following day or not later than two days after the bottling. To make orange wine, take a quart of orange juice, a pint of fresh lime juice, a pint of brown sugar and a pint of rum. After these ingredients have been stirred together place them in a jar and let stand for three days, after which time add a half pint of fresh milk. Clear the wine with a clean egg shell. Strain and bottle. CARE IN BOILING POTATOES. Attention Required If You Would Have Them Dry and Mealy. To boil a potato well requires more attention than is usually given. They should be well washed and left standing in cold water an hour or two, to remove the black liquor with which they are impregnated, and a brackish taste they would otherwise have. They should not be pared before boiling; they lose much of the starch by so doing and are made insipid. Put them into a kettle of clear, cold water with a little salt; cover closely and boil rapidly, using no more water than will just cover them, as they produce a considerable quantity of fluid themselves while boiling, and too much water will make them heavy. As soon as just done, instantly pour off the water, set them back on the range and leave the cover off the saucepan till the steam has evaporated. They will then, if a good kind, be dry and mealy. Making Ice Tea. If ice tea is to be made from the tea left over from the noonday meal or any previous meal it should be strained from the leaves and put in a pitcher in the ice chest. Many leave the tea and leaves together, thinking it will be stronger. True it will, but the tannin is very injurious and such ice tea is really very harmful. The best tea is made with enough good tea to extract the flavor with boiling water in a few minutes. Tea is best served in very thin glasses with shaved or lump ice. Slice the lemon, slit a slice and place it over the rim of the glass. Place the glass on a glass tumbler coaster or in a small saucer with a silver spoon. Bachelor's Pudding. Chop two tablespoonfuls of suet, put it into a basin with two heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar, two ounces of seeded'ralsins, two tablespoonfuls of flour, two tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, one teaspoonful of baking powder, half a teaspoonful of ground ginger and a little grated nutmeg. Mix well together with one well-beaten egg. Butter a mold thoroughly and throw into it two tablespoonfuls of brown' sugar; shake well, so that the mold is entirely covered; pour in the mixture, cover with buttered paper and steam for 1½ hours. A Cake Hint. Always steam fruit cake; you will not have to worry about your oven being too hot or there being a hard crust on your cake. Put on your boiler, being sure there is a good fire; put bricks in the bottom, so as to bring your cake about the center of the boiler. Invert a tin on the bricks, set your cake on this, cover with another tin, so the steam cannot drip on the cake. Keep the water at boiling point and steam three hours. Set in a slow oven one-half hour. Fruit Cake. One cup currants, dredged with flour, one cup brown sugar, five cents' worth of citron, one small grated nutmeg, three whole eggs, two cups milk, one-half cup butter, quarter teaspoon saleratus; flour at discretion. Bake two hours in moderate even. Plain Frosting. Take any plain cake mixture and bake in small individual tins; when cool brush with white of egg, roll in grated coconut, place meringue on top with a candied cherry in center. Wm. Cannon, 1215 311. 1215 711. 1215 411. W. OLE_DISTRIBUTER OF,OLD PURISSIM WHISKE M SICK AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE UP TO $25.00 PER WEEK WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE ON VERY LIBERAL TERMS PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH. AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO., FIFTH and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C M. HENNESSY 216 9th STREET, N. W. 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The tender leaves of young beet tops or turnips may be used instead of spinach and make a pleasant change for the lover of greens. Thoroughly wash leaves to remove grit and boll until tender. Drain, press out the water and dress with butter, salt and pepper, stirring in a saucepan until thoroughly heated. The flavor is much improved if a little vinegar and oil are added on the table. This is better than serving it with the greens as many persons prefer the butter dressing. Porch Chair. Mend your porch chairs with picture wire. It is easy to work with and strong. Lace across the seat and back to make, a straight sufface. Paint with enamel or carriage paint. Make covers to suit. I use burlap or dinim and all with excelsior. If they get wet they soon dry out and no harm is done. Destroy Moth If you suspect that there are moths in your carpets, try and locate their hiding place. Wring a coarse cloth out of clean water and spread it smooth on the spot in the carpet where you think the moths are. Iron the wet cloth with a hot iron. The steam will kill the moths and eggs. 60 YEARS EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and design quickly assert our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communication is certainly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Mann & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newdealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Broadway, N.Y. 10001 Washington D.C. WOMEN'S GUIDE A NEW PAMPHLET BY MRS. MARY J. BOLTON - ITS CONTENTS. Birth and early life of the au- thoress A word to the young girls and mothers. The man who is little protection to his family. Colour line among Negroes. A word to the better class preach- er. Why married people don't stay together. A talk to the mother of good character. Price, 15 cents. Address, 512 You street north west. Mme. Davis. M. B. MRS. BRYAN AT HOME WIFE OF DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. Has Been of Great Help to Famous Nebraskan—Has Studied Law and Been Admitted to Bar—Her Home Life. Lincoln, Neb.—Mrs. Bryan, the wife of William Jennings Bryan, Democratic candidate for president of the United States, shares every confidence, and is on all occasions a most reliable helpmest by her husband's side. "The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan truthfully demonstrates the old adage, "The twain are one." Mrs. Bryan is not only a homemaker, but a home-keeper, and manages the daily routine at Fairview with utmost system. Whatever interactions are crowded into the day, the household machinery remains unchanged and Mrs. Bryan always maintains a calm exterior. It always has been Mrs. Bryan's fervent ambition to keep abreast with her husband's intellectual progress. This she has accomplished, and in doing so gives example by precept, for she has studied side by side with Mr. Bryan in every phase of life's problem in which he has at any time been interested. When Mr. Bryan decided upon law as his profession, then it was that he took one step in advance of Mrs. Bryan, but it was not to be for long, for when Mrs. Bryan came to Lincoln she immediately began a course of law studies, and after graduating was admitted to practice in all courts of the state. When asked why she studied such a dry, musty subject as Law," she modestly declared it was just because she did not want Mr. Bryan to become conversant with a subject of which she was ignorant. She said the course was really easy and any woman who has the time could do as she has done. Mrs Bryan leads a very active and busy life but having everything so well systematized manages to keep A. Mrs. William J. Bryan. ahead of her work. She has for a number of years had entire charge of Mr Bryans personal correspondence and has been what he calls his "confidential secretary." Just now Mr. Bryans's official stenographer, who has helped in previous campaigns, is a resident at Fairview, but this does not relieve Mrs. Bryan from looking after Mr. Bryans's private correspondence. She takes up the consideration of the mail immediately after breakfast, which, by the way, is a very early meal for Mrs. Bryan, as she is usually about the house planning various lines of work and outlining her duties for the day at five o'clock in the morning. Mr Bryan dictates his letters to Mrs. Bryan and as a rule his editorsials. Mrs. Bryan did not attempt to learn any defined system of shorthand when first undertaking this work, but immediately arranged a contracted system of her own, which she has found to be adequate in every way. About five years ago she began using the typewriter and now has become such a rapid operator she frequently takes dictation direct on the machine. Mr Bryan's mall does not comprise all that is received at Fairview, for Mrs. Bryan herself daily receives more letters than any other woman in the land unless it should be the wife of President Roosevelt. Everybody who has any sort of a question to ask, concludes at once Mrs Bryan is the proper person whom to apply Mrs Bryan's ardent church worker giving a course to her means, an always leading her influence to this other organisations where it is needed. When she moved to Fairview she attended the little church at a country mission church waived in South Lincoln and she assisted several their concern in the fashionable First church and placed their name in membership roll of the new place as Westminster col she is very likely by all who trouble her to come and help, she is a woman in a household sector. She is the lady in the house. She possesses a rare sense of humility, which is unusual for Mrs Bryan. Is she a very natural and one always sure her as she really is. Her manne is cordial, and when conversing her face lights up with a smile which makes her at once seem a friend. PRIMITIVE IRRIGATION METHODS. Companies Organized Will Improve System in Old Mexico. St. Louis.—The new irrigation law which was recently passed by the Mexican congress already has led to the inauguration of a number of irrigation projects in different parts of that country. The fact that the law carries an appropriation of $25,000,000 to be paid in subsidies to those who place land under irrigation, serves as an incentive for the establishment of improvements of this character. One of the largest of these irrigation enterprises under the new law is being financed by a syndicate of St. Louis men, headed by David R. Francis. His son, David R. Francis, Jr., is Primitive Method of Irrigation In Old Mexico. Primitive Method of Irrigation In Old Mexico. actively interested in the project, and has been spending much of his time in Mexico of late. The concession for this enterprise provides for the use of the water of Lake Chapala for irrigating about 500,000 acres of land adjacent to the lake. The government will pay a subsidy of $25 per hectare of $2½ acres on all land placed under irrigation. It is stated that a system of canals and ditches will be built to cover every part of the tracts of land that are to be irrigated and that great electric pumping plants will be installed to raise the water out of the lake. The cost of the construction of the system of irrigation will be almost offset by the subsidy. A number of applications for concessions to establish large irrigation plants under the new subsidy law are pending in the department of fomento of the federal government. Minister Olegario Molina of that department recently signed a contract with Joaquín Redo, a wealthy business man of Mazatlan, for the establishment of a system of irrigation in the valley of the San Lorenzo river in the state of Sinaloa. Mr. Redo blinds himself to place 25,000 acres under irrigation within ten years from the date of the contract. Primitive methods of irrigation are in use in many parts of Mexico. Some of these irrigating plants have been in operation continuously for more than 150 years. The water is raised by means of cumbersome water wheels operated by the native peons. The capacity of the buckets on these wheels is small, but a considerable quantity of water is lifted in the course of a day's operation and several acres may be irrigated from one water wheel. The demand for modern pumping plants has increased very rapidly during the last few years, and it is not unusual to see a gasoline engine at work alongside of one of the antiquated water wheels. WISCONSIN MAN IS CHOSEN. Lorenzo D. Harvey New Head of National Education Association. Menominle, Wis.—Lorenzo Dow Harvey, who has been elected president ~ L. D. HARVEY ~ of the National Education association, has been superintendent of the Menomonee school system and Stout training schools since 1903. He has been a teacher or superintendent of schools since 1873, the year following his graduation from Milton college, his work having been at Sheboygan, Oshkosh, Milwaukee and Menomonee. Mr. Harvey was born in New Hampshire in 1848 and has lived in Wisconsin 56 years. All his life, excepting five years, when he was engaged in the practice of law and in manufacturing, has been devoted to educational work. He has been president of the Wisconsin Teachers' association and of the library department of the National Educational association and at the head of the superintendence department of the National Educational association. He succeeds Edwin G. Cooley of Chicago as president of the association. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 MRS. J. SHERMAN 18 BRILLIANT WOMAN AND AN IDEAL HOUSEKEEPER. Washington Home of Republican Candidate for Vice-Presidency and Wife is the Center of an Intellectual Coterie. Washington.—Years ago Carrie Babcock was one of the belles of Utica. To-day she is the wife of the Republican nominee for vice-president, Congressman James Schoolcraft Sherman. In Washington she is known as a brilliant conversationalist and as the possessor of a keen intellect, familiar with all matters of current legislation. Her home, as long as she maintained one here, was the center of a little coterie of brilliant men and women. In Utica the Shermans have an attractive home in Genesee avenue. The house stands in several acres of ground and Mrs. Sherman has surrounded it with flowers. She has her greenhouses, which protect the flowers in winter, and each time that it has been necessary to leave Utica she has made it a point never to do so until the last flower has been taken in and cared for. Among her intimate friends Mrs. Sherman has the reputation of being an ideal housekeeper. She puts up her own preserves and superintends the details of her marketing. Mrs. Sherman was born in the town which is now her home. She was the daughter of L. H. Babcock, a prominent lawyer. She attended the Utica seminary and later became a student at Balliol school. Col. Ellakim Sherrill of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers, to whom a monument was erected at Gettysburg some years ago, was Mrs. Sherman's maternal grandfather. Col. Sherrill was shot and killed at Gettysburg. Mrs. Sherman's maternal grandmother was Emily Eldredge, said to have been a direct descendant of Pocahontas. If Taft and Sherman win next November the Sherman will return to MRS. JAMES C. SHERMAN Washington and take a house for the winter. With them will come Mrs. Sherman's mother, Mrs. Babcock, who makes her home with Representative Sherman, and the two sisters of Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. J. C. De Long and Mrs. L. B. Moore, may spend the season here. The family of Representative and Mrs. Sherman includes three sons, one of whom is married and has a charming little daughter, Ellen. This little mald is the bright particular star of the Sherman home and the idol of her grandparents. Mrs. Sherman has an attractive niece who, if the Republican ticket is elected next fall, will spend a great deal of time in Washington. The Shermans have been married about 23 years and they have an ideally happy home. Among the women of Washington Mrs. Sherman is particularly popular. She has a charming personality, an affable manner and a delightful spirit of hospitality. Her invitations are never declined. Last winter Representative and Mrs. Sherman lived at the New Willard and entertained only in the most informal way. Their dinner parties were limited to only a few guests because of the ill health of both Mr. and Mrs. Sherman. In Bohemia, Thomas A. Dal' , the Philadelphia poet, responded, at a recent shad breakfast, to the toast, "Bohemla" "Bohemla is a pleasant place," said Mr. Daly, "but a steady job is better, on the whole. A heavy shower drove me the other day into a favorite Bohenian resort on Peanut street. Bohenians surrounded me, young and old men. They were drinking beer. "As the wait, burried to and fro, notched that every little while he could pause to fore a slate and scrawl on me." I walked over to the late and saw a creat multitude of user places such as: "Oh, Shoes so Pluck Underwear, 5c; Fingers Palms, 25c. One Black and One Red Sock, 10c" "I couldn't resist asking the waiter what all that meant. "Well, sir,' said he, I don't know the names of most of these gents, so, when I give 'em tick, I have to take note of some peculiarity of their get-up, sir." COSTLY PIECE OF EARTHWARE. Pennsylvania Museum Acquired Toft Dish Made About 1666. Philadelphia.—One of the most important of the recent accessiones to the Pennsylvania museum, in Memorial hall, is a large earthenware dish, known as a Toft dish, which was made by Thomas Toft of Staffordshire, England, about 1666, at the time of the restoration of Charles II. Toft ware as it is generally called, is exceedingly scarce, and this is the first example that is known to have been brought to the United States. The museum owes its acquisition to the generosity of William P. Henszey of the Baldwin Locomotive works. The director, Dr. Barber, who is the recognized American authority on pottery, has been for a long time on the lookout TRONASTOFFE Toft Dish Given to Pennsylvania Museum. through his agents abroad, for an authentic specimen of this early English manufacture. Some time ago he heard of a piece in possession of a London dealer, but the price demanded, $700, was beyond the limited resources of the museum, although it was considered a reasonable price for so great a rarity. The matter was laid before Mr. Henszey, who at once offered to provide the necessary sum, and the purchase was authorized. When the director received the precious piece of earthenware from the custom house in New York he took it up to the Metropolitan museum and exhibited it to the envious officials there, and he received an offer of twice the amount that had been paid for it. Toft dishes, which are usually about 18 inches in diameter, were produced in England before porcelain was invented, and they were considered at that time works of great merit. The decoration is made by pouring liquid clay, or sip, through a quill attached to a little cup, the designs being traced in the same manner. as patterns in sugar loaf are applied to cakes. The Toft dish which has been procured by the museum bears five medallions, each one containing a rude portrait of Charles II, and in the central medallion are the initials R. C., for Rex Carolus—King Charles. Toft used the royalty and nobility of the period as decorative subjects for his dishes. As each piece was decorated by hand we find no duplications; consequently the piece now on exhibition in Philadelphia is unique, and is one of the finest pieces which have thus far come to light. Students of pottery are familiar with the appearance of Toft ware from illustrations in books on ceramics, but this is the first opportunity presented to them to inspect a genuine piece. It has a particular interest in connection with the slip-decorated ware of the Pennsylvania Germans, of which the Pennsylvania museum has a unique collection. Senor Domingo Obaldla Elected to Succeed Amador. Washington.—Senor Don Jose Domingo de Obaldla, who has been SENOR DOMINGO OBALDIA SENOR DOMINGO OBALDIA elected president of the Republic of Panama to succeed President Amador, was until lately minister from Panama to the United States, having been appointed at the creation of the republic in 1903. He is a native of Panama, 65 years old and was in Bogota and in the United States until his twenty-fourth year, when he returned to Panama and became connected with the large business interests of his father. Senior Obaldia is one of the largest stock raisers in Central America and exports horses, cattle and mules. He was governor of Panama when it belonged to Colombia and is a conservative in politics. Senor Obaldia defeated President Amador's candidate for president, Secretary Arias. Obaldia was Amador's choice until, when acting as president in the absence of Amador, he instituted policies which estranged his chief. OLD FORT CRAWFORD SCENE OF THE FIRST LOVE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. Ancient Spot Is Located on Banks of Mississippi River in Wisconsin—Romantic Courtship with Daughter of Col. Taylor: McGregor, Ia.—Old Fort Crawford, scene of many a tale of manliness and chivalry, of love and war, where Jefferson Davis had his early romance, is a picturesque spot. The fort is on the banks of the Mississippi river and is now a part of the ancient town of Prairie du Chien, the oldest city in Wisconsin, founded by French Jesuits, who came down from Canada to Green Bay, down the Wisconsin into the Mississippi in 1669. The fort is a site of prominence on a knoll overlooking the mouth of the Wisconsin and a large stretch of the greater river into which it flows. Jefferson Davis began his military career here directly after graduation at West Point and receiving the usual brevet of second lieutenant. He was at St Louis for a little time and was then transferred. Here he found Col. Zachary Taylor in command. Here Jefferson Davis met the three daughters and the son of his commanding officer; and here the handsome young soldier fell in love with Sarah Taylor. Picnics planned to Picture rock and what is now known as McGregor heights, together with romantic rambles and sails unknown to the good colonel and his wife, brought about the natural order of experience. Gentle Sarah Taylor and Lieut. Jefferson Davis loved each other. The Dousmans and Capt. McRee and his family were happy over the love of these likeable young folk. Of course, it being true love, it could not be expected to run smooth. Col. Tay- MARCO BERTOLI Rulns of Old Fort Crawford. lor being approached by the manly fellow offered many objections. That he had nothing against the strong character of the man was evident. But the old ironsides had made up his mind that none of his daughters should ever marry into the army. He said that he had nothing but the kindliest feeling for the boy, but he knew so much of the trials and distresses of a soldier's wife and family that he was averse to the whole thing. But the favorite daughter of the fort was not as mild as she appeared to be. Taking the matter into her own hands, and having something of the decision of character of her father, Life somehow suddenly became miserable to the old man. How, he could never tell. But everything went wrong. Too bad that the soldiers were cursed and blamed for the state of affairs. Everybody knew what was the matter except the poor, boyotted colonel. Finally the girl approached her father and argued the case with him. There was not a spot on the life of the man she loved. "That makes it all the harder, don't you see, girl? If he was a rascal I would throw him in the river and be done with him. No! W- I have said shall stand. You shall not marry any soldier." The poor girl had to report "nothing doing" at the next tryst Many are the stories of the elope- ment. One is that he compelled an Indian to row them down to Turkey river on the Iowa side and that there they were married. Another is that they went to St Louis and that the colonel heard of them there, and had them brought back. The young man most interested in the matter is likely to know best about the interesting affair, and these are his words: "A boat about leaving the Dousman wharf for St. Louis was chosen by us, and when Miss Taylor was ready she came aboard, accompanied by Mrs. McRee, and we took passage to St. Louis I resigned my commission in the army and Miss Taylor and I were married at the home of the eldest sister of Gen. Zachary Taylor in Kentucky, in the presence of the general's two sisters, but without his knowledge or consent." The estrangement was not straightened during the lifetime of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. She died of malaria in 1835 and was buried in the Davis burying ground, near Baya Sara, La. In the spring of 1845 Mr Davis met Gen. Zachary Taylor by accident in travel. He was somewhat nervous as to what his reception would be like. The prospective president received him cordially, however, and expressed his warm appreciation of him as a man and a soldier. CHINESE PIGEON WHISTLES. Queer-Contrivances by Which Aerial Concerts Are Produced. Among the curious objects included in the Chinese collection recently obtained for the American Museum of Natural History by Dr. Berthold Laufer are samples of the whistles by means of which music-loving Chinese obtain pleasing melodies from flocks of pigeons whose tails are adorned with the contrivances. The Chinese lover of birds does not always confine his pets to cages. When he goes for a walk he may take a bird with him, carrying it on a stick, to which one of its feet is fastened by a thread long enough to allow it freedom of motion. Where the shade of a Pigeon Chinese Pigeon with Musical Whistles. tree invites him to rest he permits the bird to perch on a twig, watching it hour after hour. Another curious expression of the pleasure Chinese find in pets is the application of whistles to a whole flock of pigeons. These whistles are attached to the tails of young pigeons soon after their birth by means of fine copper wire and when the birds fly the wind blowing through the whistles produces a melodious open-air concert, for the instruments in one flock are all tuned differently. In Pekin, where these instruments are manufactured with great cleverness and ingenuity, it is even possible to enjoy this aerial music while sitting in one's room. In spite of the seemingly large variety of whistles there are but two distinct types—those consisting of oblong bamboo tubes placed side by side, and those consisting of tubes attached to a gourd body or wind chest. They are lacquered in yellow, brown, red and black. The tube whistles have two or three or else five tubes. In some specimens the five tubes are made of horn instead of bamboo. As to the materials and implements used in the manufacture of pigeon whistles, there are small gourds that serve for the bodies; halves of large gourds of a particular species imported from Shantung to Pekln for this special industry, from which stoppers are made that fit into them, and four kinds of bamboo, cylindrical pieces of a large species that grows in the south, for making the mouth-pieces of the large tubes; thin sticks for making those of the small ones, hard bamboo for the large tubes themselves, and a soft kind for smaller ones. The separate pieces are fastened together by means of fish glue. A razor-like knife is used for splitting the bamboo sticks and a chisel to break the harder pieces. For the general work a dozen spatulas are required, and awls are used for drilling the small mouthpieces. Some of the whistles, especially the smaller ones, require much skill in their making. One workman is said to be able to turn out about three specimens a day, which shows the difficulty of the work. NEW STAR FOR AMERICAN FLAG. Since July 4 Emblem Contains Forty-Six in the Field. Washington.—All flags made hereafter for the use of the government American Flag Up-to-Date will contain 46 stars in the field or union to conform in number to the states. The additional star follows the admission of Oklahoma to the family of states, an act of congress in the early part of the nineteenth century requiring that on the admission of a new state one star is to be added to the flag, to take effect on the July 4 next succeeding such admission. Oklahoma came into the union November 16 last. The 46 stars are to be in six rows; the first, third, fourth and sixth rows to have eight stars, and the second and fifth rows-seven stars each. The stars rest on a blue field. A great many American flags now flying from public buildings will have to be altered to meet the new conditions. THE BEE Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D.C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance.....$2.00 Six months .....1.00 Three months ......50 Subscription monthly ......20 MR. HITCHCOCK IS CERTAIN. Mr. Frank H. Hitchcock is certain, if he has been published correctly, that the colored vote is certain for the Republican ticket. Just how he figures this out The Bee is unable to state. The attack that Rev. Waldron is making is having its effect with the colored voters in the States which must be carried to make the election of Mr. Taft certain. The Bee will not deceive the party by making false statements or by misrepresenting the present condition of the voters. The colored voters are dissatisfied, and there is no use of attempting to hide it. This talk that the colored vote is for the Republican party, and that it has no place to go but to the Republican party is all rot. Some say that they will head off the "tirade" of the anti-Taft colored opposition. Just how it is to be headed off The Bee is conjecturing. Sitting quiet will not do it. Mr. Hitchcock may have a method unseen by The Bee and those who are doing the kicking. Register Vernon suggests the propriety of starting a newspaper. Who is going to finance it? Will he? If so, The Bee is confident that he will be indebted to the Government at the close of the campaign. It is a very easy matter for persons to suggest to those who have had life experience in newspaper work how to run a newspaper and how to "stem the tide" of this colored revolt; but when they attempt it they will find out that the newspaper will exhaust all the funds that the so-called advocates of Mr. Taft can secure. The colored editor wants to know how he is to be benefited. No man is running for an office for his health. No man under the Government is working for his health. Politics has been made a business proposition. The average colored American is learning some sense. It is no longer sentiment with him, and the politicians know it. The colored voter is waiting to see how he is to be benefited before he moves. He is grateful when his interest is guarded. Platforms amount to nothing. Parties make platforms, but how many adhere to them. The age of sentimentality has long since passed away. There is a maxim in law, "Nothing is certain until it is made certain." IS THE NEGRO SAFE? The consensus of opinion is that the colored American vote is safe for Mr. Taft. Never in the history of the Republican party has there been such disaffection among colored American voters. The natural presumption among certain Republican politicians is that the colored voter will adhere to his old principles, notwithstanding the fact that he has been ill treated by the party to which he has been allied since his emancipation. The breach is getting wider and there is nothing done by Republican managers to close this breach. Talk will not do anything. Threats will not appease the anger of the colored voter. Rev. Waldron may have been threatened or he may not have been. Why didn't he give the names of the officeholders who made the threats? The colored American has come to the conclusion that the Democratic party can do him no more harm in the event of its success than it did when Mr. Cleveland came into power What has the Republican party done to protect the colored voter from being disfranchised in the South? The Democratic governor of Maryland stated to Rev. S. L. Corrothers, a few days ago, if the colored vote would divide the Democratic party would be less hostile to him. The colored man is barred from everything. Take our local government, for instance, to which The Bee made brief mention last week. Out of the ninety thousand colored people in this city there is not a representative place been given to them. Our local government is filled with persons who have no interest in our local affairs at all. Year in and year out colored citizens are being taxed upon real and personal property. What reward do they receive? The Bee is speaking honestly and candidly as to present conditions. The same conditions which exist in this city obtain throughout the country where Republicans control. White Republicans seem to be against the colored American as much as the Democrats. The colored man demands fair treatment, and if he does not receive it he will go where his conscience dictates. Under existing conditions is the Negro safe? TAFT'S SPEECH CLEAR: There is no mistaking the language used by Judge Taft in referring to the race question in his speech of acceptance. No man ever came out more strongly and more boldly and more clearly in favor of the enforcement of laws passed to protect the rights of colored men. There is a clear, bell-like ring to Mr. Taft's statement of his position on the rights of the colored voter, in his speech delivered at Cincinnati Tuesday. Heretofore it has been charged by Mr. Taft's Negro critics and defamers that he was not square on the race question. Heretofore even some of his friends among the race have declared that his language was not quite clear enough; that it was possible of misinterpretation, and that the judicial manner in which he discussed the question was not just satisfactory. That speech delivered Tuesday is possible of no misinterpretation. The language is strong. The words are simple, but understandingly used. He declares, with all the force possible, and as plain as it is possible for an American, and friend, to make himself, that he is in favor of the enforcement of the laws for the protection of the colored voter. He wants them enforced in spirit and in letter. He uses no sentences of doubtful meaning. He straddles no point. He comes out so boldly so clearly, so strongly, that he serves notice on the bourbon South that, who selected presidt, he will use his power and influence for the enforcement of every law made to protect the son of Ham. It may drive some of Mr. Taft's Negro critics crazy, trying to find a way to make his positive stand a negative stand, but the great masses, the busy, hustling Negroes who are building for themselves and their race, will lay back in supreme contentment after reading Mr. Taft's reference to the enforcement of the amendments to the Constitution. There can now be no doubt as to where Judge Taft stands on the race question. He is with us and for us, and that, too, beyond the peradventure of a doubt. HE SERVED THE NEGRO. Some enemy of the late Editor E. E. Cooper wrote to a Boston (Mass.) paper and stated the condition in which Editor Cooper died. Any colored editor, no matter who he may be, will die in poverty, no matter what he may do, if he depends on his people to sustain his paper. The Negroes of Washington declared that they wanted a clean paper. Editor Cooper gave them a clean, bright journal. Editor Cooper's only fault was his efforts to make statesmen out of office scullions, great philosophers out of bootblacks, and presidents out of Negro managers. Yes; he may have died poor, but he had a greater and nobler mind and more sympathetic heart than those who have endeavored to traduce him. It is no disgrace to die poor. If those persons who have spoken so unkindly of him had paid what they owe him perhaps he would not have been left to the mercy of his traducers. Editor Cooper's life has been one of which any race ought to feel proud, notwithstanding his alleged faults. If he owed debts it was because the race whose cause he e-poused is indebted to him. Undoubtedly his books show hundreds of dollars due him for subscriptions to his paper, the Colored American. The colored editor is never given credit for what he does for his people. The colored American is always damned by his people for what he does for them. The colored man loves the map, race or party that curses him. Let the individual who has endeavored to traduce Editor Cooper start a paper, and before the publication of the first issue he will wish that himself and the colored Americans were in Hades. Of course, there are exceptions, but these exceptions are not sufficient to encourage the colored editor to continue publishing his paper in behalf of his people. AN ELECTIVE GOVERNMENT. It will be the disposition of the next Congress to change the present form of government. The Bee has always maintained that an elective government will be more preferable to the people in this community. There should be a property and educational qualification which would guarantee greater protection to the people. A combination of the two qualifications will insure the election of good men to govern the people. The persons to be voted for should be persons of property as well. Aside from the property qualification,the voter should possess a sufficient amount of intelligence to cast his vote intelligently. A man may have property and not the intelligence to vote. Hence, both are requisite. There should be a governor or a mayor, and a representative in Congress. The executive should be given the power to appoint a white and a colored superintendent of schools and a Board of Education of seven reputable citizens. This Board of Education should be paid a salary commensurate with the duties performed. The duties of the Board of Education should be well defined. Teachers should be given better protection and none should be dismissed without first having been given a trial by a full board. Charges involving immoral conduct on the part of teachers and employes in the schools should be investigated behind closed doors. Such an investigation would keep down scandals in the schools. There is every reason to believe that Congress will abolish the offices of supervising principals. Investigation of the marking down of certain teachers will receive full consideration. A great deal of favoritism and prejudice will be shown to have existed in the Committee of Supervision and Marking. WORTH ADVERTISING-FOR There are 5,499 Negroes employed here in Washington by the Government alone, and these 5,499 Negroes draw salaries aggregating $3,044,404. These more than three millions of dollars are spent right here in Washington, but scattered among the hundreds of tradesmen. Is this amount of money worth bidding for? It certainly is, and not even the largest stores in this city would refuse to get the big end of it did they but realize how much money the Negroes are really spending. Now The Bee is the only Negro publication in this city. It stands without a rival or competitor, and covers the field like a blanket. If a few of the merchants in this city will patronizethe advertising columns of The Bee, presenting the attractive bargains they may have. these Negroes — these 5,499 Negroes who draw annually from the Government over three millions of dollars — will assume that by patronizing a publication edited and operated by one of their race that such firms desire and deserve their patronage. And such firms will receive the bulk of these over three millions of dollars received and spent by the Negroes of Washington. What clothing stores, what furniture stores, what dry good stores and what other lines of business will now make an effort to divert to themselves these over three millions of dollars spent by Washington Negroes by advertising in The Bee. Place your advertising in The Bee and watch these 5499 appreciative Negroes spend their over three millions of dollars with you. Now is the time to advertise in The Bee, the newspaper that goes into every Negro home in Washington. Remember, merchants of Washington, it's what advertising pays you, not what it costs. PRESIDENT SCARBOROUGH The new president of Wilberforce University, Professor Scarborough, was in the city a few days last week, but could not resist the temptation of submitting to a political interview before he left town. Now The Bee, in all sincerity, and with an eye single to the success of Wilberforce University and her new president, wishes to caution Professor Scarborough about dabbling in politics. He has just been elected president of a Negro college that is in bad financial condition. It will require all his time, and then scene more, to devote to his duties as president, in order to make the college what it should be and prevent its remaining in the rut into which it has fallen. He will have no time to play politics, and the best thing he can do is to let politics severely alone. That's been one trouble with the occupants, the recent occupants, of that position. They have neglected the institution for politics. When Professor Scarborough has achieved a reputation as a successful president; when he has lifted his college out of debt, and rehabilitated the school, he may have a little time to play politics; but he is too new now, and the responsibility that rests upon him is too great to even snatch one minute of the university's time to discuss or dabble in politics. Stick to Wilberforce, Professor! At least until the old school recovers from her aggravated attack of financialitis. FORAKER AND THE NEGRO The Republicans, of Ohio may think that they are playing good politics by throwing Senator Foraker overboard. They never made such another blunder. There are some colored men in this country who will vote the Republican ticket no matter what you may do to them. A majority of colored Americans in this country are determined to follow Senator Foraker, no matter what the conditions are. If Senator Foraker is eliminated from Ohio politics, every sensible voting colored man will vote the Democratic ticket. The Bee is a Republican organ, but it cannot see its friend and the friend of the race thrown aside because he championed the cause of the colored soldiers. This is a republic and the people under its Constitution are entitled to freedom of speech. The Negro is with Foraker; whichever way he goes the Negro will go. Some will go any way. M. HON FRANK D. DANCY THE LATE HON. FRANK D. DANCY, OF TARBORO, N. C. We present to The Bee readers a special cut of the late Hon. Frank D. Dancy, of Tarboro, N. C., the deceased brother of Recorder John C. Dancy. This is the first time his cut has appeared since his death last fall. It represents him in the prime of his manhood, when he was a State Senator in North Carolina. He was at different times town commissioner, county commissioner, member of the School Board, State Senator, and mayor of Tarboro, one of the first colored mayors in the United States. He was active in politics, and a shrewd, successful party leader in his best days. In later years he gave his whole time to business life, and accumulated a fair competence in his native town. He died in the fifty-eighth year of his age. MR. ELMER DOVER One of the best men in the Republican party and the man in whom colored Americans have confidence is Mr. Elmer Dover, secretary of the National Republican Committee. Mr. Dover may be objectionable to men on the National Republican Committee, but, in the opinion of The Bee, Mr. Dover is more popular with all classes of voters than any man the committee may select. As a matter of fact Mr. Dover is an affable man, who is possessed if power to that when elected president, heference how busy he is, he always has time to see the most humble citizen. Such a man is invaluable in this campaign. The New York Age, last week, asked the question, What Negro received the three thousand dollars for agitating the Brownsville matter? We always had a sneaking suspicion that someone was being paid. Now, who did get that three thousand dollars? And now there is a painful silence. Nobody wants to or will "fess up." It may be that The Age will give name, date and place. Look out for the explosion. THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Jurisdiction of Maryland and Washington Combine with Main Body. Long Cherished Dream of Late Supreme Chancellor Starks Finally Realized - Office's and Social Festivities. The Maryland and District of Columbia Grand-Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres were in session on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1606 K street northwest. The principal feature of the first day was a grand street parade, with five hundred Knights in line, covering the main thoroughfares of the city and presenting a handsome appearance. Upon the recommendation of Grand Chancellor Geo. A. Watty it was decided to cast the lot of this branch of Pythians with the larger wing of the two Supreme Lodges of colored Pythians, thus realizing the fondest dream of the late Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks, who died before he could see the re- WHO GOT IT? sult of his labors in actual operation. The per capita tax was increased from 12 to 15 cents. The following new lodges were reported: St. Luke's, East New Market; Alpha, Frederick; Liberty, Salisbury; S. W. Starks, Baltimore; Metropolitan and Potomac Lodges, of Washington. The address of welcome was delivered by Commissioner H. B F. Macfarland, and eloquent responses were made by Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, of this city, and C. F MeMechen, of Baltimore. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green, of New Orleans, was present, and delivered a stirring address, in which he stated that the Order has a membership of one hundred and sixty thousand, and is one of the largest among colored peop'e. Officers were elected as follows; George A. Watty, Baltimore, grand chancellor; Samuel Williams, Baltimore, vice chancellor; H. H. St. Clair, Cambridge, Md., grand master of exchequer; Dr. H. C. Fowler, Baltimore, grand medical examiner; Thaddeus Copeland, Baltimore, grand pre'ate; Josiah L. Diggs, Baltimore, grand keeper of records and seals; A. C. Washington, Cumberland, grand master-at-arms; John C. Green, Baltimore, grand marshal; J. Philip Henson, Chestertown, grand lecturer; John H. Booth, grand inner guard, and George E. Fisher, grand inner guard. The past grand chancellor's degree was conferred upon Samuel D. Hayward, the retirng grand keeper of records and seals, and George A. Watty and John H. Henderson were elected representatives to the Supreme Lodge, which holds its biennial session in Kansas City, Mo., in 1900. The Grand Court of Clanthe, the woman's auxiliary, elected Mrs. Lillie G. Jones, of Baltimore, grand worthy councillor. The next annual session will be held in Cambridge, Md. The social features of the week were noteworthy. There was a banquet on Wednesday evening at Odd Fellows Hall, at which Hon. W T. Vernon. Register of the Treasury; Hon. John C. Dancy, Recorder of Deeds; Sir S. W. Green, Supreme G. A. R., responded to toasts. On the same evening Lawyer Thomas L. Chancellor, and Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, of the Woman's Relief Corps, Jones, a leading member of the District Bar, gave a magnificent dinner at his residence, Sixteenth street and Vermont avenue, in honor of the newly-elected officers of the Grand Lodge. All of the officers were present, including Supreme Chancellor Green, and a number of prominent citizens of Washington, covers being laid for twenty-five. Lawyer W C. McCard acted as toastmaster, and appropriate responses to important sentiments were made by Messrs S. W. Green, George A. Watty, Truly Hachett, Samuel D. Hayward, W. Calvin Chase, editor of the Washington Bee; R. W. Thompson, the national correspondent, and H M. St. Clair, the speechmaking closing with an eloquent tribute to his guests and Pythianism in general by Lawyer Thomas L. Jones. Purchase your ice from the Columbia Ice Company wagons. It is the best. The Week in Society Miss Mary Day and Miss M. E. Janifer are in Canada. Miss Janie Freeman is in New York City. Mrs. L. E. Jones will spend two weeks in North Carolina with the parents of her husband. Dr. J. E. Sheppard left for North Carolina last Monday. Mrs. Harriet B. Marshall, wife of Attorney N. B. Marshall, is summering at Berkeley Springs, W. Va. Mrs. A. V. Chase and daughter, Miss Beatriz, returned to the city Monday evening, after having spent three weeks in Boston, Mass. They visited the office of The Guardian while there, and they speak in flattering terms of Mrs. Maud Trotter Stewart and Mrs. Trotter, who are in charge of the business end of The Guardian. Everybody in Boston reads The Guardian, is the report they bring back. Their trip was a most delightful one. Don't express regrets at not having gone upon the Twilight Excursion after it is over. Mrs. Rachel Dixon and daughter are spending their vacation at Baleton, Va. Miss Nora Hyman is said to be in very delicacie health. Mrs. Elizabeth Neale, an old and highly respectable resident of this District, was buried on Monday last at nine o'clock from St. Augustin's Church. Mrs. Neale was upward of ninety years of age. At the time of her death she resided at No. 1622 O street northwest. She leaves a number of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. Tickets for the Twilight Excursion on the 15th may be purchased from any member of the Men's Club, or at the River Queen's wharf, foot of the Seventh street southwest, on the evening of the excursion. The annual functions of the Men's Club of St. Luke's Church are noted for their excel'ence, and highly enjoyable features. The Twilight Excursion Saturday, the 15th inst., will be equally as enjoyable. The good people at St. Augustin's Catholic Church, and the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church were largely in evidence at the annual excursion of St. Luke's Church. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Pierre are spending their vacation in Madison county, Va. Master Julius Dixon is visitng his aunt, the wife of Rev. George W. Jenkins, of Clarksburg, W. Va. Mr. Shelby Davidson, who has been ill for three weeks, is able to be out again. Miss Eva A. Chase left the city Saturday for Boston, Mass., and other New England States. She will be gone until September. Mrs. Mary Jones and her daughter, Miss Georgia, left the city last week for Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Syphax and children have gone to New Jersey to be guests of the mother of Mr. Douglas B. Syphax. Mrs. Arabella V. Chase, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Beatriz L. Chase, arrived in the city this week from Boston, Mass., where they have been spending some time. Mrs. Victorit Neal, of this city, was the guest of her sister-in-law in Hampton, Va., last week. Dr. Forest Battis, a graduate of Howard University, was married quite recently to Miss Fannie C. Boling, head nurse of Mercy Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Before returning to Washington, Prof. John T. Layton will go to Asbury Park, where his son, Turner, is visiting. The two will return together. Miss E. Lyree, of Southeast Washington, has had as her guest Miss Augusta Brooks, of New York city. Mrs. Emma Lucas, of this city, is visiting relatives in Pichmond, Va. Mrs. Mary Carter is visiting her mother in Lynchburg, Va. Mrs. Victoria Neal is the guest of her sister-in-law, Mrs. C. Addison, Hampton, Va. Miss Lottie Griffin, of this city, is visiting friends in some of the Northern cities. Dr. L. H. Harris and wife have removed from Third and F streets southwest to their new home, Villa de Harris, Eleventh and C streets northeast, last Tuesday. They have a magnificent home. Mrs. William T. Behjamin, of No. 4 Hanover street northwest, is spending her vacation in Orange county, Va. Mrs. Robert A. Braxton and two small children, Fannie and Raphael, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Fannie Lee, at Fredericksburg, Va. The pastor and congregation of Asbury A. M. E. Church are making preparation for the remodeling of the church in the fall. Miss Lizzie Brady, of 815 Third street northwest, was quietly married at her home to Mr. Henson Diggs, two weeks ago; Rev. W. J. Howard officiating. Miss Rachel E. Bell is in Baltimore visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mary E. Harris, who has been ill for the past two weeks. Miss Louise Collins, of 468 E street southwest, who has been ill for several weeks, is now convalescent. On Saturday last at 10 a.m. Mr. Harry West; of Cleveland, Ohio, and Miss Erma Richardson, of this city, were quietly married. Rev. Bennett performed the ceremony in the presence, of the bride's parents, Mrs. George W. Fair, Mrs. Walter Boyd, Mr. George W. Jackson and Mr. Edwin Brooks, of Ohio. Mr. West is the confidential clerk to the chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives, and custodian of all documents pertaining to that committee. Mr.West has been in the city about seven years, and has exhibited rare business qualifications and has cultivated and maintained close relations with many Senators and Representatives of Congress. He has always shown a deep interest in the welfare of his people and a readiness to advise and assist them in any way possible. He is well known throughout Ohio, his native State, and has affiliated closely and confidentially with the political leaders of thatState. He is modest, thoughtful, progressive and active, and his large experience derived from his extensive travels has made him a solid and interesting conversationalist. During his stay in Washington Mr. West has carefully invested his earnings, and may now be considered a man with considerable means. Mrs. West is the daughter of Dr. George H. and Mrs. Ida G. Richardson, well and favorably known of this city. She was born in this city, and passed through its public schools, and has been teaching in our schools, as principal, in the kindergarten department. She is refined, cultured and modest, has hosts of friends and associates in Washington's best society. The Bee predicts for the bride and groom a happy and successful voyage over the matrimonial sea. May the tempest never run too high or the ebb flow too low. ENTERTAINED Mrs. Fanny Waters, formerly Miss Gray of this city, but now of 27 Holyoke street, Boston, Mass, entertained a number of friends Friday evening of last week. Among the number were the following from the District of Columbia: Prof. John T. Layton, who spent several days in Boston; Mrs. Arabella V. Chase and daughter, Miss Beatriz L. Chase, who were in the Hub City three weeks. Musical selections were renderedby the Washingtonians and Mr. Henderson, a Bostonian. Refreshments were served in abundance, and the morning hours were almost on the guests before they departed. Mrs. Waters belonged to one of Washington's best families, and her many relatives and friends in this city will be pleased to know that she is enjoying the best health. INFORMAL RECEPTION TO RICHMOND LADIES. The Misses Crump and Miss Harper, of Richmond, Va., were informally entertained by Mrs. Irene Morgan at her residence, 1930 NewHampshire avenue, Friday evening, 24th ultimo. These ladies are the guests of Mrs. Morgan Howser, 1524 Corcoran street northwest, and since their visit to this city have been the recipients of much social attention from our society people. Mrs. Morgan was assisted by Miss Lovey Johnson, of Hagerstown, Md., who was untiring in her efforts to make the evening pleasant and enjoyable for the Richmond ladies. There was offered for the guests vocal music, with piano accompaniment, dancing, games of whist and euchre, and last, but not least, a table "groaning under the weight of most choice and temptingr freshments, salads, ices, claret punch, etc. Among the guests present, other han he Richmond ladies, were: Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Houser, Miss Mamie King, Miss Cora Thompson, the Misses Scott, Mrs. Reese, Mrs.Trimble, Messrs. Eugene Brooks, Jr., Benjamin Davis, Thomas Beckett, Lindsey Weaver, George Evans, J. U. Johnson, Robert Wilson Edward Green, William Brown of Middleburg, Va., Lieut. Ollie Davis, and Mr. Lindsey of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Cornelia Cuyjet, of Philadelphia, is visiting this city, the guest of Mrs. Malinda Gillem, 1620 O St. northwest. THE ONLY LOYAL BODY. Decision of Masonic Congress as to Legal Standing. The congress called to meet in Washington met pursuant to that call in the Masonic Temple, Green's Hall, 1719 Pennsylvania avenue n. w., Washington, D. C., July 10 and 11, 1908. In the absence of Dr. McGhee, of Alabama, the president of the congress, Bishop J. B. Thornton —Grand Master of the State of New York — convened the session; after which Brother H. C. Scott, Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia (Inc.) was chosen president, assisted by Brother J. B. Thornton, of New York. The most important business of the session was setting the boundaries of legal Free Masonry in the United States of America and the denouncing of bogus, illegal and clandestine Masons. The congress also declared by vote that the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge (Inc.), of which Brother H. C. Scott is Grand Master, is the only legal body of Free Masons among colored people in the District of Columbia, and with the Masonic world recognized no other colored Masons in the District of Columbia. See Minutes of the congress and the Masonic Journal of the New York jurisdiction. Rev. S. J. R. Nelson, D.D., NEGRO CAMPAIGN BOOKS. If all the rumors about Negro campaign text-books that are flying about Washington are true, half of the colored male population is at work on a campaign book, and expect to get rich quick on it. It is reported that Cy Adams, Assistant Register of the Treasury, has been cooped up in his room for two weeks writing one; McKay is hard at work on one; Harry Clark has one ready for the printer, and there is a long list of others writing hot stuff. It begins to look like there will be a seperate colored campaign book for every colored voter, if rumors be true. Of course the colored newspapers will be expected to reproduce all this dope that these colored campaign authors get paid for. Gee,ain't it great to be an author of a Negro campaign book? But won't the market be overstocked. Won't there be an overproduction? And over in New York, out in Illinois and Indiana, KINK·NE A Beautiful Hair Dressing and Tonic for the Hair! 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HOWARD UNIVERSITY School of Medicine 18 67. Rev. W. P. Thirkield, LL.D., 1908 PRESIDENT Robert Reyburn, M.D., W. C. McNeill, M.D. Dean. Secretary. The Forty-first Annual Session will begin October 1, 1908, and continue eight months. Four Years' Graded Course in Medicine. Three Years' Graded Course in Dental Surgery. Three' Years' Graded Course in Pharmacy. An optional Five-Year Course in Medicine is offered. Full corps of instructors. Well equipped laboratorium. The New Freedmen's Hospital, which adjoins the age, just completed at a cost of $500,000, offers unrival facilities. The Third Session of the Post-Graduate School will begin May 9, 1909, and continue six weeks for B and four weeks for Dental Course. For further information or catalogue, write W. C. H. Secretary, 539 Florida avenue, Washington, D. C. Three Years' Graded Course in Dental Surgery. Three' Years' Graded Course in Pharmacy. An optional Five-Year Course in Medicine is offered. Full corps of instructors. Well equipped laboratories. The New Freedmen's Hospital, which adjoins the Medical College, just completed at a cost of $500,000, offers unexcelled clinical facilities. The Third Session of the Post-Graduate School and Polyclinic will begin May 9, 1909, and continue six weeks for Medical Course and four weeks for Dental Course. For further information or catalogue, write W. C. McNeill, M.D., Secretary, 539 Florida avenue, Washington, D. C. FORSALE FORSALE 1622 11th St., N. W. Two-Story, Bay Window, Pressed Brick, Nine Room Days, Two Bathrooms, Modern and Up to Date. Smnt; rest, like rent Two-Story, Bay Window, Pressed Brick, Nine Rooms, Two Stairways, Two Bathrooms, Modern and Up to Date. Small cash payment; rest, like rent FOUNTAIN PEYTON. NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO The new photographic studio of Warren & Turner h It is an up-to-date studio and one that commends superior class of work it turns out. Life-size portraits in oil, pastel and water colors. WARREN & TURNER, 1248 Ninth Street EXCURSION SEA For 1908 Steamer River Queen to Wash ington Park. Steamer Jane Moseley to Norfolk, Baltimore, and L e Potomac River. Books now open for charters on the River Queen and y. Secure your dates at once, before they are all taken. The new photographic studio ofWarren & Turner has just opened. It is an up-to-date studio and one that commends itself by the superior class of work it turns out. Life-size portraits in oil, pastel and water colors. WARREN & TURNER, 1248 Ninth Street Northwest. EXCURSION SEASON For 1908 Steamer River Queen to Wash ington Park. Steamer Jane Moseley to Norfolk, Baltimore, and Landings down the Potomac River. Books now open for charters on the River Queen and Jane Moseley. Secure your dates at once, before they are all taken. This beautiful park has a collection of attractions offered to the Washington public. It is located about the Washington on the Potomac River. The Scenic Railway electric power plant for 7,000 lights — a Figure 8. The double-decker, with music attachments. A 5- and 10- Penny Arcadium, Moving Pictures, Shooting Galle lunch Depot and Buffet. Dancing. Pavilion. Pool hall, and forty acres of Shady Woods and Dells. The River Queen makes daily trips to Washington m., 12 m., and 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m. For particulars address Lewis Jefferson, General M.ath and N Streets Wharf. This beautiful park has a collection of attractions never before offered to the Washington public. It is located about ten miles from Washington on the Potomac River. The Scenic Railway, with its electric power plant for 7,000 lights—a Figure 8. The Caroussel, double-decker, with music attachments. A 5- and 10-cent Theatre. Penny Arcadium, Moving Pictures, Shooting Gallery. A Dairy Lunch Depot and Buffet. Dancing. Pavilion. Pool and Billiard Hall, and forty acres of Shady Woods and Dells. The River Queen makes daily trips to Washington Park at 10 a.m., 12 m., and 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m. For particulars address Lewis Jefferson, General Manager, Seventh and N Streets Wharf. William H. Davis, 2001 Eleventh street northwest. R. Ballinger, proprietor, 348 W. Fourteenth street, New York City. UNIVERSITY Medicine Mr kield, LL.D., 1908 PRESIDENT W. C. McNeill, M.D. Secretary. will begin October 1, 1908, and in Dental Surgery. in Pharmacy. in Medicine is offered. all equipped laboratories. which adjoins the Medical Collof $500,000, offers unexcelled clini- t-Graduate School and Polyclinic continue six weeks for Medical Course e. dialogue, write W. C. McNeill, M.D., Washington, D. C. St., N. W. Red Brick, Nine Rooms, Two Stair- nd Up to Date. Small cash pay- 494 Louisiana Ave., N. W. Warren & Turner has just open one that commends itself by the and water colors. 1248 Ninth Street Northwest. SEASON 1908 ington Park. olk, Baltimore, and Landings down n the River Queen and Jane Mose- re they are all taken. WASHINGTON PARK. It has a collection of attractions never before being public. It is located about ten miles from Potomac River. The Scenic Railway, with its for 7,000 lights - a Figure 8. The Caroussel, music attachments. A 5- and 10-cent Theatre. Moving Pictures, Shooting Gallery. A Dairy Met. Dancing. Pavilion. Pool and Billiard of Shady Woods and Dells. makes daily trips to Washington Park at 10, and 8 p.m. By Edythe Wilson. 2 tempo di valse. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` 1st time. 2d time. Copyright, 1904 by the American Melody Company, New York. Kleinert's DRESS SHIELDS Every pair of Kleinert's Dress Shields is warranted. When properly used, we will not only refund money paid for shields that are not perfect, but will hold ourselves responsible for any resulting damage to gown. Kleinert's Dress Shields are made in ten sizes, from size 1 to size 10. 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The steamer River Queen will leave her wharf at 5.30 o'clock .m.,} NO. 15353- Administration Docket . —ko— ; , sailing two hours upon the Potonric; returning, will lang at Wash- Betate of Eat Haines, aes) : OWN YOUR OWN HOME. . < ington Park, she Coney Island of the Potomac, remaining two hours, - lication Paving’ bern aatel® \ BEAUTIFUL . . S e h + and reaching tie city not later than eleven o'clock. The Club guar- ficken for probate < the last will EAST DUPONT HEIGHTS, : ! traig. ten 3 antees a most enjoyable time to all vho may avail themselves of this and testament of said deceased, and - WHERE YOU CAN VOTE. : - z evening's outing. . for letters of’ administration, with; Three hundred feet elevation, Healthy spring water, celebrated Your Hair . Music by Professor Hamilton, j a copy of the will thereto annexed,| for its purity. The finest opportunity ever offered the Washington Tickets: Adults, 35 cents; children under 14 years of age, 20 cts.| on said estate, by Martha Gant, it is public for a home or make an investment. No taxes. No interest. poe Roto a ae Se ae : Proceeds for the benefit of ‘thechurch. : ¢ ordered this 16th day of July, A.D.| No landlord. No permits, No building restrictions. No. malaria. Ged tien Sura epew erowate oo Letall help da C's aceent caiszaie effort: 1eo8. that Henry Tacekon BRoherr| __ pa ee ee io = me. -e The Frederick Douglass - Memorial - [tenes Say Pe Neate ee eT ee EY eee ee “tee eg 5 ES "SRS Ce cgi wie lil, 7 | ROSS Sod a 7 * Beit Ky & oe ae LS. AI oot I eo. Oe ee SS ao. Eee BRR ee a Oo + SME é. wo ae oe SE ee we Be ts ge oi) GORE, SS ae SB e08 a Sie hemes, OS 2h Sete aes SOP eae A aaa ae: ee we pe ape 3 oc oie : “end eae Ie &, <I eae SS , pt Nee nn S- ae oN LORE we @ z 4 gy a Bere,” : Fe ae gS) ed ie ae s " ear e *% oe. Con aia Bo za re ee me. Boa se Rca ee a RB e RS % betwee RelN t By arrangement of friends of th's movement, and through the gen: erosity of Mr. Lewis Jefferson, Gmeral Manager “of the Independ. ent Stesboa: and Barge Company, .\ great outing for all Wash- ington has been planted for theentire day of Monday, August 24 1908, at the new Washington Park, on the Potomac.The largest and best park of its kind in the entire country maintained. for peopte a° all Tdces. | A grand programme, to fegin promptly at 6 o'clock p.m. Music in.abundance. Dr. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute. Ala., ofator cf the day. Other speakers: Assistant Superintendent R. C. Bruce, representing the schools; Miss E7A, Chase, the kinder gartens; Rev, W. M, Norman, the Baptist Church; Rev. J. IL, Welch the A. M. E. Church; Rev. F. J. Grimke, tlie Presbyterian Church; Rev, S. R..Brown, the Congregational Church; Rey, T: J. Brawn, the Episcopalian Church; Hon. J.C. Dancy, the- ALM. E. Zion Church; Attorney T. L. Jones, thexttorneys of the city; Dr, W. R. Wilder, the physicians: Editor W. Calvin Chase, the press; Unde:- taker J. H. Dabney, Negro bstaess interests; Chief W. R. Griffin the True Reformers; Judge Robert H. Terrell, master of ceremo- nies. . Some of the leading attractions of Washington Park: Penny Ar- cade,Five and Ten-cent Theater,Szenic Railway, Lunch Counter. Shooting Gallery, Cafe, Carrousse!, Dancing Pavilion, and other amusements in the midst of forty acres of shaded trees bordering on the cool banks of the Potomac River. - Fate: For the round trip, 25 cents. < a . TICKETS ON SALE HERE. For additional tickets or other information call on ‘the committee in charge:, W. Sidney Pittman, * Lewis Jefferson, 494 Louisiana Avenue, N, W. 7 Seventh Street Whf. THE VOSS CLUB baa “Will Give Their Annval « Family Excursion, Wainesday,-.\nzest 5, 1908. to Washington Park on the palatial steamer “River Queen. Music by the Avtherst Or *chastra, Prof. George W. Clements, Leater {formerly with the Co: lumbian). 7 “Beat leaves tht wharf feat of Seventh and N streets svuthwest, 2 4, Gand 8 p.m. . 4 > Special attention paid to ladies anc chittren, ~ ~ DUPONT HEIGHTS. Go at ence, if you want a hone. -to the Lupont Heights Company and purchase a lot from eleven doilars to fifty-one dollars. One dollar down WHAT WE SEE AND HEAR. Comrade Goodman, commander of Sumner Post, G. A. R., Department of the Potomac, has been very sick. Ill. Goodman is convalescent. Com- Tades should -call and see him. Liltian Beatrice Watkins, of Chi- ce, who had been posing for white for a number of years, committed sui- cide because she had colored blood in her veins. LEGAL NOTICES. W. C. MARTIN, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Holding Probate Court. No. 15353. Administration Docket Estate of Emily Haines, alias Haynes, Deceased. d Application having been made herein for probate of the last. will and testament of said deceased, and for letters of administration, with a copy of the will thereto annexed, on said estate, by Martha Gant, it is ordered this 16th day of July, A.D. 1508, that Henry Jacskon, Robert Jackson and James Jackson, and all others concerned, apear in said Court on Tuesday, the 18th day of August, A.D, 1908, to show cause why such application should not be ptamied, Let notice hereof be pub-| ished in the “Washington Law Re- orter” and “The Washington Bee” mee in each of three successive veeks before the retum day herein nentioned — the first publication to e not less than 30 days before said eturn day. . Wright,’ Jsutice. \ttest: James Tanner, Register of Wil's for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. WM, L. POLLARD; ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF 1HE DIS- TRICT OF COLUMBIA. ee a Te No. 15383. . Administration. This is to give notice that the sub- scriber, of the District of Columbia, has-obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of admiistration on the estate of Al- ice Brown, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons hav- ing claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally au- thenticated to the subscriber, on or hefore the 13th day of July, A.D. 1909; otherwise they may by law be excluded from al’ benefit of said estate, Z Given under my hand this 13th dav of July, 1908. Annie T. Brown, ; 413 You St. N. W. Attest: James Tanner, Register 1! Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Wm. L, Pollard, ‘Attorney. During July and August we close "Saar wolagee Making” Homes Comfortable is OUR Business And we have made such a close and careful study of the best way to do it that our’ assistance is of- tei of considerable value. We glad- ly place our knowledge at your dis- posal, and it is always ugjlized to your benefit in our buying. Our big summer stocks contain every- thing that could conduce to your comfort in hot ,weather, and you could not possibly select anything from them that will not give you satisfactory service. When you make a purchase here we are always ready to arrange the terms of payment to suit you, and it is easy to judge from our plain- ly marked prices that it is no more expensive to buy ‘on credit here than it is to buy for cash anywhere else. PETER GROGAN oe .. Ot. One Cnn eT CT SALES AND DABNEY, FUNERAL DIRECTRESSES —AND— . PRACTIGAL EMBLAMERS. SUCCESSORS TO STEWART CAMPBELL, CARRIE SALES ~ ’ —AND— RUTH DABNEY First class service guaranteed at reasonable prices, Carriages furnished for Balls, Parties and Receptions. Phone, Main 4231- —— SS Phone, Main 2524. ROBERT ALLEN, BUFFET AND FAMILY LIQUOR STORE . 1917 14th St. N. W,, : —AND— 7 OWN YOUR OWN HOME. . , . ’ BEAUTIFUL % EAST DUPONT HEIGHTS, : - WHERE YOU CAN VOTE. | Three hundred feet elevation, Healthy spring water, celebrated for its purity. The finest opportunity ever offered the Washington | public for a home or make an investment. No taxes. No interest. No landlord. No permits. No building restrictions. No. malaria. No mosquitos. Be independent; raise your own poultry, pork and garden products, : é LOTS FROM $11 TO $51. One Dollar Cash and One Dollar Per Month, It is proposed by .the incorporat ors of the Washington and Mary- land Electric Railway Company, chartered by the Maryland Leg islature, Session 1908, to run their road through this property. Located near Suitland Park, east of Greater Washington, twice the distanct from United States Capitol Building as Dupont Circle. where lots command from $10,000 to $108,000. Beautiful shade and level land.” Take green cars on Pennsylvania Avenue, marked F and G, go- ing East, and transfer to Twining City, where free automobiles will take you toEast Dupont Heights, Sundays. Agent on the grounds on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For weekly engagements and further particulars apply to the . | * ‘DUPONT HEIGHTS COMPANY; Room 6, s12 F Street Northwest, - Washington, D. C. OPPORTUNITY ForYoungMen There is a growing demand at lucrative salaries in all sections of the country, and especially in the South, fur young men trained in ag- riculture. The demand for the graduat:s from this department of the Tuskegee Normal and Indus-trial Institute is so far in excess of the supply that we are offering special inducements to graduates of other schools, and persons sufficiently advanced in the academic branches to come here and pursue the courses in agriculture, including Farm Work, Dairying, Live Stock Raising, etc. An opportunity will be given a few earnest young men to work out alt of their board while taking a course. ve Those interested can secure full information by addressing Booker T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. ee E— STS TOO eS =F » o i » , ™ oy N 4s Pe an aot 7 B iy - as i iS) NA ieee Dw E ] Hy The Old Reliable Remedy. For twenty-five long years—a quarter of a century—there has never been a remedy equal to Elixir Babek for MaJarla and such miasmatic diseases, Thousands have used it with most gratifying results. Malaria is prevalent now. Do not walt for it to take hold of you. Begin the use of Babek now. 50c Bottles, Your druggist will tell you, that Babek is the best thing he sells e e 7 MALARIA. CHILLS % FEVER MAL ° If you are unable to secure Bab ck at the Drug or General Stores in your vicinity write to Kloczew ski & Co., Chemists, 500 Ninth Street, Washington, D. C CITY HALL LUNCH ROOM. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. s This is a first-class lunch room. Everything to appease your, ap- petite. . Commodiots dining rooms for t he public and the Bar Association. Hot and cold lunches quickly served. . CITY HALL LUNCH ROOM, Mrs, Altoper, Proprietress. S Old Zinfandel, Santa Rosa * Asti Claret, Ives Va. Claret, Famed for purity and quatity $3 per doz. 75c. per 3 qts, CHRISTIAN XANDER’S Rly coo 7th St. Far HOUSE AND HERMMANN. During July and August We Close Saturdays at r P. M.; Other Days at 5 P. M. We handle only qualities that give satisfaction and successfully compete in price with ‘inferior grades. ‘When in doubt, buy of HOUSE & HERRMANN, , Seventh and I Streets Northwest COMPLETE HOMEFUAWISHIKES Soe ee To give everybody an opportunity to try Ford’s Hair Pomade, and ow- ing to occasional requests for a smaller size, we have decided to put up a 25¢ size in addition to our regu- lar soc’ size, either size mailed post: paid on receipt of price, Address The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 153 E. Kinzie Street, Chicago, Il, For further particulars see advertisement ‘elsewhere in this paper. a= Egarszge WO ERES Es Pom wy 8422455 2b s coke 8H G2 ae a. > AVC ag St 22\) ial? Jp mea A Zz Po fe \ Baim a) a at Nat = of = a? @a % LEP NELLA Wg LL dll N y | Nip NESEY =. RS ze Asp NEQO Nel et ilo N SP \SRE§ yO% el] Nr § FE2) 92 05 ye SESE(G 3") NE re ris : Str i ht Y H i Duss Eras have wed only ons dotile of BE evaient ciuntsh sad tay ae Mas WP. WaLeas. Bia. =Harrimes, Team, " Ford’s Hair ora s Pomade Filey poara ot soscees baa poowea ea eae. ro) Tes uso makes the hair suralrne toeey, sah ead pliable, 30 you can comh it and arrange {8 mB any style you wish cousistent with ite lenge ‘Bemores aad prevents caodruz, invigorsaam tts scalp, stope the hair from falling out oF Breaking of and gives {t new life and vigor. “Absolutely harmiess—used with splendid 2° mmlts even cn the youngest chikdren. Delloately perfumed tis use 18 3 pleasure, ae Indies of refinement ever ywnero d Tort's Hair Pomade has tmitatora Dow Pemeecee ema wan ademit' wil 75 ‘Pook for thia nase on story package, ; seclae assed ersten genects Coan eente for regular sise or 35 cents for small Bacesiries Beale papaia'wo any point tn 4B. A.by retera Tall on receipt of Driver Addreoe! The Ozonized Ox Marrow Cay 33 Bass Kensle 8%, Chleage, Tie FORD HAIR POMADE ts mate only 13 Ole @2g0 by the above frm. Agente Wanted Rrecrwhere REPAIRING “AND ALTERING THE CLOTHES CLEANING SHOP org D Street Northwest, J. S. Justh, Prop. Jc. Coimma, Mgr. ESTABLISHED 1866. BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD AND SILVER WATCH- ES, DIAMONDS, JEWEL- RY, GUNS, SRCHANICAL TOOLS, LADIES’ AND GENTS’ WEARING APPAR. EL. OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT. UNREDEEMED* PLEDGES FOR SALE. 5 * 361 Pennsylvania Ave. Ns W, Why pay 10 percent when, you can get it for 3 percent? H. K. FULTON’S LOAN OFFICE, No. 314 Ninth Street N. W. Loans made on Watches, Dia- monds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. Tf you want to buy a good watch, diamond ring, or jewelry of any kind, look at our stock first. You can save money. FOR RENT — FURNISHED : ROOMS. 7 NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS. Nicely furnished rooms far gentle- men: bath and all modern improve- ments. Also very desirable ‘ight of- fice at 1742 Fourteenth street rorth- west, A. H. Underdown. FOR RENT. . Three-room flat, large back yard, 412 V street northwest; $9. FOR RENT. Two large clean rooms, with priv- ilege of bath and kitchen; 3226 Sherman avenue northwest. Apply to Thomas Walker, 506 Fifth Street Northwest. One beautiful brick cottage, 8 rooms, cellar, attic, front and back porch, lot 90 by 323 feet, East ave- nue, Burnsville, D. C.; near car line; $17.50. : Thomas Walker, Attorney, 506 Fifth street n.w. FOR RENT. Three flats; four rooms; bath and range in each; on Irving street near Howard University. Thomas Walker. 306 Fifth Street Northwest. 2 es “THOMAS J. CALLOWAY, Attomey at Law. 494 Louisiana Avenue, Washington, D. GC General Pracitte. Phone M 2404. Prompt and Careful Attention to 1 All Matters. TRY HIM. Purefiase your ice from the Co- lumbia Ice Company wagons. It, is the best. ©.