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VOL. XXIX NO15 Odd-Fellows Jubilee WEEK OF REJOICING. Large Meetings of the Odd Fellows Hall Association—Six Days of Jubilee The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia held six days jublee from August 30 to Friday, September 4. It was a jubilaton of the Odd Fellows Hall Association, commemorative of the cancelling of the mortgage and the payment of all other indebtedness against the hall, which is the property of this great organization. Each evening was the occasion of large crowds, presided over by different members of the Hall Association. The officers of the association are: Thomas H. Wright, president; Lawrence Clark, vice president; Samuel W. Watson, secretary; Alexander F. Hicks, assistant secretary; Joseph Manning, treasurer. The board of directors are: Thomas H. Wright, Isaac W. Scott, Henry P. Slaughter, Samuel W. Watson, James Langham and W. A. Davis. M. V. P. James Langhorne, master of ceremonies. A Religious Service—Special sermon, appropriate to the occasion, by P. N. F. Rev. Edgar E. Ricks. The members of the Order will then join in thanksgiving and praise to our Heavenly Father for the blessings vouchsafed in enabling us to bring to a successful termination our great undertaking. Monday, August 31. P. N. F. Henry P. Slaughter, master of ceremonies. Congratulatory address on behalf of the Patriarchie, Council, and Subordinate Lodges, by M. V. P. Rev. Wm. J. Howard. Three-minute addresses by members of the Order. Tuesday, September 1. M. V. P. David Walker, master of ceremonies. Statistical address by M. V. P. Samuel W. Watson, secretary of the Hall Association. Three-minute addresses by members of the Order. Wednesday, September 2. M. V. P. Joseph Manning, master of ceremonies. Congratulatory address on behalf of Households of Ruth and Juvenile Societies by District Most Noble Governor Mrs.Mary Alice Parker. Three-minute addresses by members of the Order, W. Calvin Chase, M. C. Maxfield and others. Thursday, September 3. M. V. P. Daniel B. Webster, master of ceremonies. Congratulatory address on behalf of the Veteran Association by P. N. F. J. B. Askins, and on behalf of the Ladies' Veteran Association by Mrs. Sarah J. Lancaster, Chief Lady Veteran. Three-minute addresses by members of the Order. Friday, September 4. P. N. F. W. O. Davis, master of ceremonies. Closing Address — Review of the work of the Hall Association, by M. V. P. Thomas H. Wright, president of the Association. Burning of mortgage by Miss Edna Brown, of the Rosebud Juvenile Society, No. 1, of Queen of Sheba Household, No. 29, that purchased the first share of stock issued by the Hall Association. After which the members of the Order and their friends will join in social intercourse and fraternal greetings. Vocal and instrumental music each evening. Ushers — P. N. F. Isaac W. Scott, M. V. P. Alexander Hicks, P. G. M. R. P. Williams, P. N. F. George J Freeman Chaplains — P. N. F. Lawrence Clark, M. V. P. Edward P. Brown. The crowd on Friday evening, on which occasion Mr. Thomas H. Wright, president of the Hall Association, spoke, was the largest that attended any of the evenings. Each evening the work of Mr. Wright and his fidelity and honesty were applauded in the highest terms. Mr. Samuel Watson, on Wednesday, on which occasion Mr. Joseph Manning presided, delivered a fine address, as did the old veteran and race loving representative Mr. M. C. Maxfield, who is always greeted with applause when he appears before the public. Everybody knows him to be a man who is sincerely devoted to his people and their advancement. Mr. Maxfield gave a brief history of his long connecte with the Order, and how the Order struggled to obtain a hall of its own. He referred to the early struggles of the colored race, and what the present generation should do if it wanted to advance. Mr. Manning's address was also full of good thoughts. He is an easy speaker, calm and deliberate. The ladies who took part in the proceedings showed that they were not behind the men. If anything, they showed as much enthusiasm as the men did in the early struggle of the organization. The ovation that was accorded Mr. Thomas H. Wright on Friday will long be remembered. It was evident that he has the confidence and respect of the organization. It was manifest that his honesty and integrity were above reproach. His work was commended by all of the speakers, and applauded to the echo. CAPT. JAMES F. OYSTER. The president of the Board of Education, Capt. James F. Oyster, is one of the best friends to the colored school's and teachers. No teacher suffers in anything under his jurisdiction. He knows no teacher by the color of his skin. He believes in CAPT. JAMES F. OYSTER. President of the Board of Education and a Friend of the Colored Schools. CAPT. JAMES F. OYSTER. President of the Board of Education and a Friend of the Colored Schools. fair play to all teachers, white or black. He has no favorites. What he wants is for teachers to be competent and there is no better friend in the schools to them. He has already blotted out favoritism in the schools and personally seen colored teachers given their just reward. There are colored teachers in authority today who are more inimical to the colored schools and teachers than many members of the Board of Education. No teacher will be permitted to be imposed upon whi'c Captain James F. Oyster is president of the Board of Education. MR. JOSEPH MANNING. One of the most wide-awake business men-in this city and prominent Odd Fellow is Mr. Joseph Manning, who will represent Bloom of Youth MR. JOSEPH MANNING. odge, No. 1368, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the District of WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1908. DR. JAMES E. SHEPPARD, ONE OF THE COMING MEN OF THE SOUTH. ORATOR AND EDUCATOR Columbia in the B. M. C. which is to convene in Atlantic City next week. There is not a more popular man in the Order than Mr. Manning. His affable and genial manners have won for him a host of friends. He is a practical carpenter and builder, and one of the members of the executive committee of the local Negro Business League. He is treasurer of the Odd Fellows Veteran Association; president of the Union Relief Association, and treasurer of the Odd Fellows Hall Association, through whose hands thousands of dollars have passed. He is a member of the Rising Sun Lodge, No. 1365, and also a member and officer of the ONE OF THE CO Zion Baptist Church. In business he is a very careful man, and in his business transactions you will find him to be one of the most honest men to deal with. As a representative to the next B. M. C. no better man could have been selected. B. M. C. AT ATLANTIC CITY. Grand Master Housion to Be Re...Elected—A Big Event Assured... Grand Master W. L.Houston leaves Sunday, with his staff, for Atlantic City to preside over the sessions of the Biennial Movable Committee, which opens on the 14th. 7,000 delegates and visitors are expected at the city-by-the-sea, and Young's Pavilion will be granted for the accomodation of colored people for the first time in its history. A great street pageant will be a feature of the week, many of the Grand Lodges, Patriarchies, Households, Juveniles, etc., from all parts of the country participating. The re-election of Mr. Houston as Grand Master is assured. COMING CHANGES. There is some likelihood of Supervising Principals Nolle and Baily being transferred to the graded schools. Read The Bee. DR. JAMES E. SHEPPARD. One of the coming men of the South is Dr. James T. Sheppard, of Durham, N. C. The new enterprise in which he is now engaged will be a monument to him and posterity.Dr. Sheppard is a young and progressive man and an orator of ability. Wherever he speaks he wins his hearers. Within a few months he will have erected in Durham, N. C., one of the largest institutions in the South. He has the confidence and respect of all classes of citizens, irrespective of color. He stands today at the head of the list of young orators, and during this campaign Dr. Sheppard will no doubt DR. JAMES E. SHEPPARD, OMING MEN OF THE SOUTH. OR. UCA TOR. be heard upholding the principles of the Republican party and strongly urging his people to support and vote for Taft and Sherman. He is a man upon whom any race may rely. He gives facts and figures which cannot be contradicted. Dr. Sheppard has been an extensive traveler in the interest of his people. His new methods of teaching his people have had telling effect. He knows the colored Americans and their wants. No man has greater appreciation and respect for colored Americans, and especially those in the South, than this distinguished advocate of the rights of his people. "TAFT AND THE NEGRO." Millionaire John Hays Hammond and Chief of Staff Arthur I. Vorsy The Colored American Magazine forAugust contains an excellent study of the character of William Howard Taft from the pen of Mr. Ralph W. Tyler Auditor for the Navy Department. Mr. Tyler has had over a quarter of a century's experience as a writer, editor and literateur, and any contribution from him is sure to combine literary finish with historical comprehensiveness, forceful argument with graceful expression. Referring to Mr. Tyler's graphic story of Judge Taft, John Hays Hammond, the millionaire mining engineer, who draws a salary of $500,000 per year, sends the following not of congratulation. Dear Mr. Tyler: — I have read with pleasure your excellent article entitled "Taft and the Negro," and I beg to tender by congratulations on the very intelligent and broad view you have expressed on the subject. I hope this valuable article will find extensive circulation." Yours very truly, John Hays Hammond. ATOR AND ED- Mr. Arthur I. Vorys, Judge Taft's capable chief of staff, also wrote as follows to Mr. Tyler, in the same connection: "My Dear Sir: — I have received a copy of the Colored American Magazine containing your article, "Taft and the Negro." I have read every word of it. It is fine. Of course you never write any other way." It goes without saying that the article reciting the true attitude of Judge Taft toward the Negro has been read by thousands of race-loving colored people all over the country. If anyone has failed to read it, he should yet take steps to procure a copy of the Colored American Magazine for August and absorb every line of Mr. Tyler's informing and enterprising production. "Heroic size" lions are to ornament the western end of the Connecticut avenue bridge. Saturday night he was at work, as was his custom. Suddenly a crowd surrounded, his little place of business. It set fire to the building, and the man, choking in the smoke, fled to the street. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Queen Margharita is said to be opposed to the marriage of Count of Abruzzi and Katherine Elkins. A labor congress representing 1,776,000 workingmen opened at Nottingham last Monday. Isaiah Davis, colored, who was arrested in Georgetown last Sunday, and charged with selling liquor to minors, was acquitted before Judge Mullowney in the Police Court last Tuesday morning. Four thousand officers and enlisted men left Fort Riley, Kansas, last Tuesday morning on a march to St. Joseph, Mo. The seventh annual fashion exposition of the Dressmakers' Association of America opened last Monday in the Masonic Temple, New York city. The Tuberculosis Congress will convene the 21st instant. President Roosevelt will be the president of the congress. The Nashville Globe of September 4 was a special edition containing three parts, in which there were twenty-four pages. Although one of her guides will have to lose one hand and both feet, which were frozen, Miss Annie S. Peck has succeeded in reaching the summit of Mount Huascaran, about 26,000 feet high, at Lima, Peru. A person signing himself as "Your Unknown rFriend" has written a letter to Hon. W. H. Taft, warning him of a plot which he heard among some men who intend to assassinate him the next time he goes to Chicago. The Lott Carey convention, which was in session in this city a few days, came to a close last week. The twenty-eighth annual session of the Grand Fountain of True Reformers convened in the True Reformers' Hall, Richmond, Va., last Tuesday morning. Barbara Pope, colored, committed suicide last week by hanging herself to a tree in "Lovers' Lane." It is said that orders are being prepared at the War Department for the test in skilled horsemanship to be taken by all officers between the grades of captain and brigadier general stationed in this city, except where specially excepted. The dedication of the new No. 3 Chemical Engine house at Langdon took place September 10. John H. Smythe, the Negro minister to Liberia, under the administration of President Cleveland, died in Richmond, Va., Sept. 5. Mrs. Annie M. Johnson, who doubted as to whether her husband was white or colored, is reported as having been satisfied that he is white. Prof. A. B. Alexander, chief of the Division of Fisheries, Department of Commerce and Labor, has left the city for Newfoundland, where he will advise with American fishermen regarding their rights under the modus vivendi. Gertrude I. Sutton, colored, six years old, whose ability to play the piano in her section is "creating quite a sensation." The instrument on which she plays is the make of 1822. She has never had a lesson. The Navy Department was obliged to decline the invitation extended by the Netherlands Government for the battleship fleet to visit the Landjong Priok. Java, on the way to Manila. A balloon from Berlin carrying two German aeronauts descended on last Wednesday at Nezhin, Russia, after being in the air twenty-three hours. Dr. W. C. Woodward, the health officer of the District, returned to his desk at the District Building last Wednesday. THE NEGRO VOTE. Two years ago the Negroes bolted the Republican State ticket in Kansas, and of their 15,000 votes they cast 10,000 for the Democratic ticket headed by an ex-Confederate general for governor. It is not strange, therefore, that the National and Tendependent Democratic parties are vieing with each ether for the Negro vote in that particular State. Can the Republicans hold the Negro vote in line in Kansas with such recognition as is being given him by the Democrats? RUST THAT FARMERS FEAR. The Kind That Ruins Wheat the World Round. Rust still corrupted the American cereal crops, and that to annual damage exceeding $500,000,000. The Department of Agriculture has put on record the amazing statement that the injury to wheat and oats from rust probably exceeds that caused by any other fungus or insect pest, and in some localities is greater than that caused by all other enemies of the crop combined. The farmer in some season or other in looking over his fields during the early summer cannot help noting that the fresh green appearance of the wheat crop is changing in color from way to day becoming gradually quite yellow. On examining closely one of the withered leaves the observant cultivator can detect orange yellow spots or lines, and with the aid of a low power lens also can see that the epidermal tissue of the leaf has been ruptured by the emission of countless numbers of orange yellow seeds or spores. The spots and lines upon the leaves multiply rapidly, and when the leaves are shaken by the wind the spores are set free and fall upon the other leaves, and thus the disease is spread. Wherever wheat is grown th's destructive pest is known and dreaded. In appearance the disease is the same wherever the crop attacked is gown—Europe, America, Austral,a—pale yellow during springtime and summer, deepening later in the season to a dark brown or black on the green leaves not only of the cereal crops but of many surrounding wild grasses. In the early days of rust the fungal spores or seeds are called "uredo spores," from "uro," to burn, owing to the rusty or burnt appearance of the leaves. Poison Ivy. The three leaved poison ivy that lines so many roadsides with its handsome, shiny foliage, is harmless to some persons, but others cannot pass by a patch of it, much less touch it, without painful erysipelas like swelling and bur ing of the skin. A correspondent describes for ivy polishing as follows:—Zinc sulph, one dram; plumbl, acetate AA, one dram; water, distilled, four or six ounces. Apply three or four times a day. Or tincture ferril chloridil, applied full strength is also very good. Always give a saline cathartic at the start. New Patent Act in Britain. By the paten act which recently passed the British Parliament and has already gone into effect, it becomes necessary for fore.gn holders of patents under British authority to erect and operate works in Great Britain for the production of articles thus patented. Foreign patentees under the old act were protected against competition by their patent rights, but did not have to produce in the country which protected their patents. Turkey's Postal System. Postal conditions in the interior of Turkey are still in a patriarchal stage of evolution. When a postman arrives in a village on muleback, he distributes the letters in a public place, giving each his own and then putting the undelivered ones in the hands of relatives or acquaintances of those to whom they are addressed. Yet it is said that 99 per cent reach their destination. Man's Endless Guest. As a great preacher once said: "Man is continually looking for his lost inheritance of happiness, which the allegory of the Garden of Eden prefigures. He knows it exists for him somewhere, and he is ever knocking, knocking—generally at the wrong door, of selfishness, greed, ambition, lust, all sorts of foolish doors; and we call his mistaken seeking by a name, "Sin." For Burning Feet If you are a sufferer from burning feet about as speedy a relief as any may be had from soaking the feet in tepid water in which washing soda has been dissolved. A tablespoonful to a bucket of water, is a good proportion. The Safest Helm. The best and safest helm for a man is a good wife. Give her a quarter of a chance and she will steer him straight. But don't call her a hellum, as the sailors pronounce helm.-New York Press. Alcohol drunk in New York. New York city people are consuming more alcoholic beverages than ever before, for the consumption is increasing more rapidly than the population. Each day the city drinks about 200,000 gallons. Smallest Mammal. The smallest of all animals are the shrew—nocturnal, mouselike creatures, that hunt for worms and insects in woods and meadows. An egg-shell barn for the mother and her little ones. Patriotism. A man's country is not a certain area of land, but it is a principle, and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.—George William Curtis. Eylla to Be Rid Of The only real thing is to study how to rid life of lamentation and complaint—Epictetus. Dancing Put to Practical Use French Military Campa. Dancing was considered historically, philosophically and morally in a lecture before the International Academy of Choregraphic Authors and Masters by M. Giraudet, a high authority on the subject. He recommended the study of the deportment for getting on in the world, and spoke at length of "the influences of dancing on public affairs in the reign of Napoleon I." Capt. Cook, whose name, sald the lecturer, figures prominently in the golden book of choregraphy, insisted on his sailors dancing an hour or two daily, "thus preserving them in health and spirits." M. Giraudet also related, with approval, that under the first French republic the government of the convention had provided for dancing lessons to be given in all barracks "to cure homesickness among the troops." The lecturer approved highly of the new rule of etiquette, which, it appears, the last congress of dancing laid down, and which enables any man at a ball to dance with any girl without being introduced. The reform, said M. Giraudet, has now been carried out, and has been received with joy by all concerned. Misspelled Names of Places. A name very difficult to find correctly spelled is that of the Lake Ontario port, Sacket Harbor. When it it not "Sackett's Harbor," or "Sackett Harbor," it is commonly "Sackett's Harbor." Another not so frequently wrong is "Newburgh," the city of which name is in the town of "Newburg." This brings up the problem of "Pittsburg," which its citizens like so well to spell "Pittsburgh." Another puzzler is "Hoosick Falls," which is on the Hoosac River, in Rensselaer County. The United States Geographical Board is the ultimate authority on the names of places in America. On Mt. Etna. The characters of all the climates of the earth can be detected—the frigid close around one, the temperate with its belt of trees just underneath and the tropical at the base of the mountain, with its vineyards and luxuriant groves. The great ocean around, with Lipari, Panari, Allcudi, Stromboli, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under your feet and you look down upon the whole of Sicily as upon a map. Gifted Woman. There can be no high society where conversation is not the chief attraction; and men seldom learn to talk well when not inspired by gifted women. Women are nothing in the social circle who cannot draw out the sentiments of able men; and a man of genius gains more from the inspiration of one brilliant woman than from all the book worms of many colleges. A Tutor in Time. A woman on the train, entering Grand Rapids asked the conductor how long the train stopped at Union Station. He replied: "Madam, we stop just four minutes from two to two two." The woman turned to her companion and said: "I wonder if he thinks he's the whistle on the engine." Touch. I am sure that if a fairy bld me choose between the sense of sight and that of touch-I would not part with the warm, endearing contact of human hands or the wealth of form, the nobility and fullness that press into my palms.—Helen Keller, in Country Magazine. Shock of a Suicide's Restored Voice. When Howard Roberts of Turner, Me., heard of the suicide of his brother he had been dumb for two years. The shock caused temporary paralysis. Then he began to whisper and now his voice has been completely restored. Oil Fuel for Warships The British admiralty is considering the possibility of supplanting coal with oil in the "mosquito" fleet, the swiftest of England's war boats. A fleet of naval tank steamers would keep the depots supplied. Care of Rubbers. To prevent the heel plates of children's shoes wearing and cutting through their rubbers glue pieces of thick flannel in the heels where the wear comes. The overshoes will last much longer. An Impossible Task. A leading woman's magazine is demanding that men shall be as good as women. They seem to forget that the average man has a hard time being as good as he is.—Washington Post. Faith. The faith that passeth understanding is the kind one has, who pays one dollar for a blood purifier which is passed over the counter by a man whose face is full of blotches. Just a Thought. It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.—George Elliot. Epigrammatic. However, it isn't alway the man who talks the loudest, who is heard the farthest off. ESTIMATING OUR COAL SUPPLY. At Present Rate Pennsylvania Fields Will Last 490 Years. M. R. Campbell of the United States Geological Survey estimates the amount of coal originally in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania at 21,000,000,000 short tons; and that in the bituminous fields at 112,574,000,000 short tons. It is said that by the methods of mining anthracite coal in former years, for every ton of coal mined and marketed 1 1-2 tons were either wasted or left in the ground as pillars for the protection of the workings, so that the actual yields of the beds was only about 40 per cent of the contents. This percentage of waste has now been materially reduced, but the exhaustion to the close of 1907 has probably amounted to about double the production, or 4,000,000,000 short tons. This would leave still in the ground approximately 17,000,000,000 short tons, which would be capable of yielding at the rate of one ton of coal for each ton mined, 8,500,000,000 tons, or approximately 100 times the amount of anthracite produced in 1907. If we estimated for the bituminous production one ton of coal lost for every two tons mined, the exhaustion to the close of 1907 has been 2,760,000,000 tons, which would leave still in the ground in Pennsylvania a little less than 110,000,000,000 short tons of bituminous coal. The annual consumption and production of coal will no doubt continue to increase, but at the rate of production reached in 1907 the available supply in Pennsylvania would last about 490 years.—New York Evening Post. Japan's Population. The population of Japan to-day is just about 50,000,000. The exact figures for 1907 are not yet available, but the estimates just published are based on the average growth of the last thirty years and may be taken as fairly accurate. In each of the five year periods for which figures are shown, over the past twenty-five years, the population has increased roughly speaking, by 2,060,-000. To-day the estimate is that there are 49,267,744 native born Japanese in the territory ruled over by the Mikado. Machine Counts Money. A machine that will count money has been produced by an Austrian inventor. The coins are thrown into a funnel at the top of the machine and slide downward, lighting on a spiral track. This track has a raised border containing slits corresponding to the size of the various coins. As each coin slides on the track it passes through the slit corresponding to its denomination and dropped into a basket. Children's Sleep. As a general rule the lad at school between the ages of 13 and 16 requires nine to ten hours sleep. Growing boys need a large amount of sleep and when this is denied them, neither their bodies nor their minds can develop properly. An English authority points out that this lack of hours of rest falls most heavily on the clever boys. The Overfed Husband. Prof, Carl von Noordon, addressing a number of prominent scientists at Vienna on the subject of "Food and Nourishment," declared that the reason so many men begin to get fat immediately after they have been married is because their wives give them their favorite dishes on every possible occasion. Germany's Hunters. Consul Ilt of Annaberg reports that 600,000 hunting permits are issued every year in Germany. The government receives in fees something like $1,500,000. The annual kill by the hunters is estimated at 55,000,000 pounds, having a market value of $6,500,000. The Way to Man's Heart. "It's all right to talk about art, but give us the woman who can take a peck of apples, some flour and a rolling pin and make a bunch of ples that put a man in love with even his next door neighbor," says the Los Angeles Express. Where Ivy is Beneficial. Ivy growing over the walls of a house renders the structure cool in summer and warm in winter. It also keeps the walls dry. It is, however, very destructive to woodwork, forcing the joints apart. The Untidiness of Suicide I always dress elaborately when I am contemplating suicide; then by the time the last carl is in its place it seems a pity to do any thing untidy.—Anna McClue Sholl, "The Greater Love." Dangerous Employment. On the various car lines of New York city, including the steam surface, subway and elevated roads, there is an average of 20 employees injured each day. Somewhere. A man may be absolutely impossible but somewhere there is some woman who doesn't think so. He Knew. "Are you in pain, my little man?" asked the kind old gentleman. "No," answered the boy, "'the pain's in me.'—Indianapolis Journal. USES LIMESTONE FOR FUEL St. Louis Man Mixes It With Coal and Obtains Intense Heat. Alexander Marshall of St. Louis told recently how he has solved an important problem that may greatly reduce the world's consumption of coal. claims to have discovered a method whereby the cost of coal by the use of limestone, in furnaces of any kind may be reduced to one-half. The limestone exists in sufficient quantities in the Pisa Bluets along the Mississippi River to supply Alton with fuel for centuries to come. Marshall's scheme proves generally successful. "You see, I throw in plenty of coal to get a red-hot fire in the furnace. The former dark, black smoke from the stacks began to be transformed into a light, alry gas—carbonic acid gas released from the carbonate of lime. The heat was intense and in a few minutes seemed as if the seams of the boilers would melt. "Coal alone never gave such a heat," remarked Mr. Marshall. "In a few weeks I will have a testing apparatus here for the purpose of finding out exactly the amount of coal and then the number of units in coal and limestone." After the test the residue left was exhibited in the grate. There were no clinkers; the coal had evidently all been consumed. "The residue makes a good fertilizer," Mr. Marshall said. "Of course the ashes are not so good as the limestone before burning, for that contains forty per cent more of carbon. The advantage lies in the fact that use has already been made of the coal. Left in the ground for a longer time, the burned limestone will bring about exactly the same effect as the pure limestone; that is, in correcting the acidity of the soil." The Eternal Feminine. "I'll tell you how I am saving money so that I can entertain my friends at dinner, Marie," said a New York stenographer to her chum as they soared upward in the office elevator. "Whenever I am invited to dine out and do not have to pay for my own dinner, I put the amount I save in my little iron bank. "However," she continued, with the particularly pleasant purr that sometimes precedes a scratch, "that plan won't do you any good, will it dear, for you are never invited out, are you?" Swiss School Wisdom. Whenever the natural temperature reaches a certain point in Switzerland the schools are dismissed. This is on the theory that after a certain point of suffering has been reached by both teachers and pupils, the one cannot impart nor the other absorb instruction that would be of any value, and so the time spent in attempting it is wasted. First "Dress Sult" in Kansas. The first dress suit that ever came to Kansas came with the "aid" from Boston during the dry summer of 1860. Some rich man in the east contributed it, having outgrown it, and a farmer named Paswell, in Kaploma township in this county, ploughed corn in it all summer. Atchison, Globe. Friendship. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it.—George Washington. What Hurts Most. "I tell you," said Sinnick, "men are getting so deceitful these days that you can't trust your best friends—" "And what's worse," interrupted Boroughs, gloomily, "you can't get your best friends to trust you."—Philadelphia Press. Rivers and Men. Little rivers seem to have the indefinable quality that belongs to certain people in the world—the power of drawing attention without courting it, the faculty of exciting interest by their very presence and way of doing things.—Henry Van Dyke. Straight Business Offer. An advertisement in an English paper reads as follows: "Stolen, a watch worth £10. If the thief will return it, he shall be informed gratis, where he may steal one worth two of it, and no questions asked." Beyond Mans Realization. Men make fun of the fashions, but even the wisest of them do not realize that the style change in the invisible clothes, with quasi-visible ribbons, just as often as they do for the more apparent ones. Sweetness by the Ton. Pertume manufacturers of Italy every year consume 1,860 tons of orange blossoms, 930 tons of roses, 150 tons each of jasmine and violets and 15 tons of jonquils. City's Benefactors No greater can befall a city than when several educated men, thinking in the same way as to what is good and right, live together in it.—Goethe. In Manchuria, Siberia and North China much use is made of Chinese brick tea, not as a beverage, but as a vegetable, boiled with rice and mutton. Wm. Cannon, OLE DISTRIBUJER OF OLD PUR SIM WHISKE BARBERSHOP SICK AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE UP TO $25.00 PER WEEK WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE ON VERY LIBERAL TERMS PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH. AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO., FIFTH and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C M. HENNESSY 216 9th STREET, N. W. WINES, LIQUORS & CIGA S Patrick CANNON 935 P E N V Y / 1 1 1 1 1 IF YOU WERE To Board ADVERTISE Go to HOLMES' HOTEL, No. 333 Virginia Ave., S.W. Post Afro-American Accommodation in the District. EUROPEAN AND AMERI- AN. Good Rooms and Lodging, 50. 75c. and $1.00 Comfortably Heated by Steam. Give us a Call James Otoway Holmes, Prop. Washington, D. C. Main Phone 2316. Live With Others. Life's best school is living with people. It is there we learn our best lessons. Someone says: "It is better to live with others even at the cost of considerable jarring and friction, than to live in undisturbed quiet alone." That Sawing Motion. "Some people do dislike work." remarked the Observer of Events and Things; "and yet it takes about the same number of motions to play one of Schubert's sonatas on the fiddle as it does to saw a cord of wood." Yonkers Statesman. Save the Soot. A cheap way to keep house plants free from disease is to put a bag of soot into a pail of water, let the contents settle and use a very weak solution for watering plants. Boot is a valuable fungicide. West Grows Independent. The matter of securing funds to remove the crop no longer disturbs western bankers. To use an expression of one of the number, "The West no longer sneezes when Wall Street takes snuff." Sticky Varnish. Sticky varnish put on furniture by cheap wormmen may be remedied by first placing on shallac varnish and then follow with a coat of copal varnish. Soldiers Love on Nuts The small soldier keeps himself in perfect fighting condition on a diet of nuts. He eats only twenty a day, but they are of a very nourishing kind. An Endscooped Goin An Undiscovered Genius. The world has never learned the name of the genius who conceived the idea of spreading butter upon his bread. 60 YEARS EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain the nature of the invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. oldest agency for securing patents. Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months $1. Sold by a widester-MUNH & Co. 381 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 212 F. P. W. Washington, D.C. WOMEN'S GUIDE A NEW PAMPHLET BY MRS. MARY J. BOLTON - ITS CONTENTS. Birth and early life of the authoress. A word to the young girls and others. The man who is little protection to his family. Color line among Negroes. A word to the better class preacher. 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, A CARD READER TELLS ABOUT BUSINESS. Reunites the Separated, and Removes Spells and Evil Influence. 1228 25th St. N.W., Washington, D. C. Gives Luck to All. N. B.-No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. N. B.-Mention The Bee HOUSE CLEANING ON A SHIP Process of Tidying Up a Trans- atlantic Liner. IS DONE TWICE A MONTH The Work Goes on With Clock-like Precision—Every Man and Boy Knows His Post and What is Expected of Him—Two Miles of Decks to Scrub. In all households "spring cleaning" is very properly regarded as an ordeal, but it does not often occur. The case is vastly different with one of the modern transatlantic liners, however, where a most thorough house cleaning takes place twice a monta, and that without the aid of a single woman! No sooner has the last immigrant got ashore with his bundles than boys with gongs go clnaging down the immense decks; and from the great saloons right down to the stoke-holes, the small army of men making up the line: a crew are made aware that house-cleaning is about to begin. The great life-boats are awing out and back and found to be in good condition. The first officer roars unintelligible orders through a meagphone, and work begins with machine-like precision. There may be fifty thousand pieces of linen to be sorted and counted, done up in sacks, sent to the laundry, and recounted and put away on their return. There are something like thirty thousand pieces of silver to be counted, sorted and cleaned; fifty thousand items of glass, and double that number of dishes and cooking utensils to be dealt with by washers and polishers. There may well be from five to seven hundred staterooms to be cleaned in every corner with scrumplous care. There are probably fifty or sixty bathrooms to be cleaned, and a small army of men is let loose in the vast dining-saloon of the ship, where perhaps seven hundred and fifty people may be seated at once. Another and smaller army attacks the second saloon. Deft-handed sweepers, dusters and cleaners are in every part of the great drawing room. Outside there may be two miles of decks to scrub, and the same "mileage" of rugs and carpets to be beaten in the open air. Hundreds of mattresses are to be put out in the sun and some of them remade. The work goes with clock-like precision. A smaller liner with accommodation for about seventeen hundred first- and second-class passengers, has been cleaned with exquisite care in exactly four and thirty hours from the time the bell-boys first clanged their gong. If the great ship makes fast to her pier in the morning and discharges her passengers before noon, the housecleaning starts promptly at one. If, however, she docks later in the afternoon, or at night, the house-cleaning signal is given at six o'clock the next morning. It need hardly be said that every man and boy knows his post and what is expected of him. Scaffoldings are built about the great smoke stacks, and up here painters scrape and lay on new coats. The next day may find them at work on the hull. Stalwart sailors are washing down the walls or the deck-houses. The stewards are stripping the berths in the staterooms; and the linen steward with his staff, is counting the soiled linen with amazing rapidity. The table-stewards are busy in the great saloons with their silver; there are boys in the pantry washing dishes with most unboylike alacrity. The head steward, with a telephone by his side and a line of subordinates before him, is busy with accounts, breakage losses, and the like. He divides the staterooms into groups of ten, with a "caa-ain" over each group. House-cleaning in the steerage quarters is, of course, much simpler, although not less thorough. Everything that might be injured is first of all removed, and then various lengths of hose are brought into play, throwing tremendously powerful streams of water. The men are, of course, barefooted, and are followed by their mates wielding brooms, brushes and scrub cloths. There are stalwart men even down in the hold, getting it ready for fresh mountains of baggage and cargo! The tremendously powerful engines now still and silent, are likewise being overhauled, polished and oiled, and in less time than it would take one of our housewives to clean her little suburban or country dwellinig, the ship is suddenly pronounced "ready," to receive two or three thousand more or less fastidious passengers. How Snakes Hear. Snakes have no external ears, but inside the head the ear bone are very crude. Snakes "hear," however, by feeling vibration of sound on their delicate scaly covering, and searching for sound vibrations by protruding the wonderfully sensitive tongue, which is filled with thousands of microscopic nerves. Their sight is very keen in distinguishing moving objects.—St. Nicholas. 1200 To the Acre. The world's population could be contained in Delaware if it were as congested as eleven New York City blocks. at the rate of 1200 people to the acre. A GREAT ENDURANCE RACE. A Record-Breaking Ride Along the Old Santa Fe Trail. When we come to talk about modern endurance races for sport or for pelf, the present riders can scarcely hold a candle to F. X. Aubrey, who used to do some great stunts on the roof of a broncho. In 1850 he made a bet that he could cover the distance from Santa Fe, N. M., to Independence, Mo., over the old trail in eight days. It is 765 miles between the two points as the freight caravans travelled it, and by that route on a wager of $1,000 Aubrey was to ride. He succeeded in winning, making his destination, the Jones House in Independence, three hours before the expiration of that time. During this his first ride he killed a number of horses, the death of one when within twenty-five miles of Council Grove, compelling him to walk to that place, carrying his saddle on his back where he obtained another animal. This feat of Aubrey was regarded as the greatest ride ever made by anyone in ancient or modern times and he became the hero of the incipient border town, Independence, where he was feted and made the lion of the day. His fame spread throughout the entire West, including California, where he was well known. Although people marvelled much at the wonderful endurance of the man and the remarkable time in which he had made the trip, still Aubrey himself was not at all satisfied with it. He determined to break that record, and the following season made another wager of $5,000 in gold that he would do it. He accomplished his record-breaking dash across the plans in the marvellous time of only five days and thirteen hours His objective point was the same hotel to which he had ridden on his former trip. On this ride when he reached that hostelry he was perfectly exhausted and in fainting condition, his horse quivering from head to foot and white with foam. Aubrey was lifted from the back of the animal by his friends and carried into his room in the house, where he lay in a complet stupr for two days. Six horses, which previous to starting from Santa Fe had been stationed at distances varying from twenty-five to fifty miles along the route fell dead under him, so terribly fast had he forced them on. He possessed a beautiful mare, velle, a favorite annial, noted for speed and endurance, but she expired at the end of the first 150 miles. On his last great trip he rode day and night, stopping only long enough to leap from his tired animal and spring on to a fresh one. He made more than two hundred miles every twenty-four hours, and all the sleep he took aggregated but three hours during the entire five days. Diet for Sleeplessness. Dr. William Stevens says that insomnia is not a disease itself, but the effect of an unhealthy condition of body or mind. When the cause is removed the insomnia may be expected to disappear. Every physician has had stubborn cases of it which would not yield to any treatment, and for which a change of air or of scene may be necessary. But such cases as these should not occur, and do occur only when the sufferer has neglected precautions that should have been taken when the trouble first made itself manifest. insomnia results from cause which can be removed if attended to in season. The most common cause is found in the digestive organs—either unsuitable food causing somnia as a feature of indigestion, or insufficient food causing the patient to be kept awake by hunger. There are few things which can be universally recommended as diet or sleeplessness, since what will agree with one man will disagree with another. But two things which may almost always be recommended are lettuce and celery.—London Globe. On the Ocean Bottom. Sitting inside a submarine on the ocean bottom you would be no more conscious of the enormous water pressure without than if you were going to sleep in your own bed. You might remain twenty-four hours under water without coming up, using only the natural air supplied by the boat without feeling the least uncomfortable. If you wished, you might remain down four or five days, tapping the air tank, as you needed a fresh supply of air. In the meantime you would bunk over the torpedoes and torture yourself by letting your imagination loose to your heart's content, or you might read by electric light, or play cards or dominoes or checkers, the cook serving you with coffee or canned things that can be heated on an electric furnace.—St. Nicholas. Bee's Bad Points. "I have been hearing of the busy bee until I am tired of it," says Drake Watson. "A bee works during the summer and then rests all winter like a plasterer. And a bee has bad habits. Go into a vineyard and you will and bee drunkards around bursted grapes. The drunkard bees slip the juice until they become full, and then fall to the ground and sleep off their debauch; a drunkard bee knows enough not to go home with a jag. FAMOUS ROGER MURDER FAMOUS ROGER MURDER Where Poe Got the Plot for a Famous Short Story. BAFFLING GOTHAM CRIME Details of the Most Puzzling Murder Case in New York's Criminal Annals—Pathetic Fate of Beautiful Mary Rogers—Attempts to Solve Riddle by Expert Criminologists. The most famous murder mystery in New York was the case of Mary Rogers, around which Edgar Allan Poe wrote his famous story of Marie Roget. Mary Rogers was a pretty cigar girl who worked on lower Broadway and lived with her mother. One Sunday morning she left home, and was seen later boarding a stage coach at the Aster House with a strange man. About a week later the body was found in the North River, opposite the Stevens Institute in Hoboken. Poe was living in Philadelphia at the time, but read the New York papers—at that time there were several flashy Sunday papers in New York—and from the clippings or these Sunday papers he wrote his celebrated Marie Roget, setting the scene of the murder in Paris instead of New York. That story and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," are the two stories that made Poe famous on both continents and established his reputation as a writer of detective tales. His theory was that a young naval officer had gone with this girl to Hoboken, to the Elysian Fleids which was not unlike the Coney Island of to-day, but without its large buildings, where people went on Sunday to drink beer. Poe's theory, as brought out in his story of Marle Roget, was that the young naval officer had assaulted the girl and choked her in a small boat that he had previously moored on the Jersey side, and that he rowed down the river, threw her body overboard and escaped to his vessel in the lower harbor. In justification of this theory Poe describes marks on her back as having been the imprint of the ribs of the boat where she lay before being thrown overboard. He also noted the fact that a boat was found floating in the bay about where the Liberty Monument now stands. That was generally accepted as the solution of the mystery. Superintendent Byrnes, in his book on "The Criminal Cases of America," takes up the Mary Rogers case and puts another construction on the case—that she was accompanied by a dark man who came from Philadelphia and murdered her and then escaped. The girl's body was found in the river nearly nude, but in a thicket on the shore of Hoboken, arranged with very dramatic effect, were found her belongings—hat, shawl, &c.,—to give the impression that the murder had been done there. Some four or five years ago, writes William M. Clemens, I went to Hoboken and looked into this case. I found, fifty years after, that there were five living witnesses. I found one old gentleman who was a constable in 1842 and endeavored to make an arrest in the case I found there was a roadhouse run by an old woman and her two sons, two rough, tough boys of the Bowery type, and it was proved by these witnesses that this girl had been seen at the roadhouse, justifying the theory both of Poe and Byrnes. But, going over the newspaper files, I found a small account of the finding of a man's body in the river off Fulton street without coat or hat, well dressed, as a dandy of that day dressed; and in further investigating the case and talking with these old people, I proved to my satisfaction that both the man and the woman were killed in the road house for their money and both thrown into the boat, and the girl's apparel placed in the thicket to attract attention. One of these witnesses was arrested on suspicion at the time, and afterwards moved West and disappeared. The other was drowned. The Bachelors' Excuses. At a June wedding breakfast in Pittsburg, the bachelors were called upon to give their reasons for remaining single. The following were among the reasons given: "I am like the frog in the fable, who, though he loved the water, would not jump into the well because he could not jump out again." "I am too selfish, and honest enough to admit it." "I prefer, on the one hand, liberty, refreshing sleep, the opera, midnight suppers, quiet seclusion, dreams, cigars, a bank account and club to—on the other hand—dlsturbed rest, cold meat, baby linen, soothing syrup; rocking horses, bread pudding and empty pockets." "I have a twin brother and we have never had a secret from one another. He is married."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Windsor Chair. Windsor chairs are thought by many, to have derived their name from Windsor Conn., where they were made in Colonial days. In an article in Country Life in America, however, Mr. Walter A. Dyer states that they were of English peasant origin and were made in England before the first specimens from Windsor, Conn., were turned out. A 'Curious Fact Recently Observed By Meteorologists. Students of the upper air were astonished when the little balloon they sent up, with self-recording thermometers, told them one day that in the high atmosphere there is a stratum which is warmer than the air immediately below it. No one has yet explained this strange inversion of temperature, but it has now been observed so many times in different part of the world that there can be no doubt about it. It was discovere in 1891, almost simultaneously, by Mr. Teissereno de Bort near Paris and by Prof. Assmann in Germany. Since then nearly all the balloons that have risen above 40,000 feet in central Europe have penetrated this stratum of warmer air. No one knows yet its upper limits. In England it has been found that the average height of the layer of warmer air is about 35,000 feet. In the last three years Dr. A. Lawrence Rotch has set afloat seventy-seven ballonssondes at St. Louis. Most of those which rose higher than 43,000 feet entered the stratum of warmer temperature. On October 8, for instance, the temperature at 47,600 feet was—90 degrees Farenheit, while at the greater altitude of 54,100 feet the temperature had risen to —72 degrees. Two days later the coldest temperature, —80 degrees, was found at 39,700 feet, while only 2,600 feet higher the temperature rose to —69 degrees. This warmer stratum of air has not yet been discovered over the tropical Atlantic, but the noteworthy fact has been established that above the equator in summer it is colder at a height of eight miles than it is in winter at the same height in north temperate regions. Meteorologists now think they have reason to believe that this warmer air exists throughout the tropical regions at heights exceeding 50,000 feet and that it is probably a universal phenomenon existing at some height all around the globe. The Call of the Jungle. Many a time I've come back from a trip, leaving half my men and all my ivory in some deadly African swamp, half dead with fever, swearing that I'm done with the business for good. And some bright day in six months, or even in three, the smell of the jungle gets into my nostrils, through all the street traffic I hear the squeal of an elephant or the coughing roar of a lion's challenge—and that settles the business. Back I go again, knowing precisely what is coming—the sweating days with the chilling nights, the torments of insects and of thirst, the risks and hardships and the privations. For once Africa has laid her spell upon a man he's hers forever. He'll dream of her, of the black tangle of forests he's broken through, hot on the trail of a wounded bull tusker; of the parched and blistered veldts he's crossed under the blazing sunlight; of the nights, those moonlit haunted nights, when he's watched beside runway, waiting for the game to come down and drink, and listened to the ripple of the water on the flats, the splash of a crocodile, the stealthy snapping of branches all around him, the scurry of monkeys overhead, listened to the vast black silence, into which all smaller sounds are cast as pobbles are dropped into a pool.—Berkeley Hutton in Everybody's. Citric Acid and Water Dr. Riegel of the Austrian army describes in Archiv fuer Hygiene a number of experiments with citrio acid to determine its value as a sterilizer of water. The experiments were made with typhus, diarrhoea and cholera bacilli. A solution of 0.6 per cent citric acid was placed in shallow vessels. The cholera germs were killed in 15 minutes; the diarrhoea bacilli were killed in 5 to 6 hours and the typhus in 24 hours. When the vessels were placed in the sun's rays, the action was much quicker; the cholera germs were killed in 5 minutes and the typhus in 1/4 hours. It is therefore probable, says Dr. Hiegel, that the use of chric acid in water exposed to the rays of the sun in flat vessels would be of great benefit in countries where the usual sterilization methods (cooking,ozonization) cannot be well employed, as is the case in most of the tropical and sub-tropical countries. A Late Alarm. "One of the most extraordinary sounds I hear in New York," said an early riser. "is the alarm clocks that strike at 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning. I was born and brought up on a farm and my time for rising is 5 a.m. In the summer I not infrequently get up at four and am hard at work by 5. Some time along in what seems the middle of the day to me I hear an alarm clock suddenly begin to strike and keep whirring away as if to wake the dead. I never get used to it. I invariably think it had struck by mistake, and then I remember that it is just arousing some of my neighbors. What troubles me is how anybody can sleep late with the rearful racket of New York dinning all around him."—New York Press. Missouri's Eggs. Missouri marketed 107,155,658 en of eggs in 1908, for which received more than $16,000,000. WORLDS BIGGEST FARM A Mexican Don Who Owns an 8,000,000 Acre Ranch. HOMESTEAD IS A PALACE Don Luis Terrazas, of Chihuahau, Employs 2,000 Cow Punchers, Line Riders, Shepherds and Hunters—He Owns 1,000,000 Cattle, 700,000 Sheep, 103,000 Horses. The biggest farm—if "farm" it can be called—is that owned by Don Luis Terrazas in the State of Chlauhau, Mexico, which measures from north to south 150 miles and from east to west 200 miles, or 8,000,000 acres in all. On its prairies and mountains roam 1,000,000 head of cattle, 700,000 sheep and 100,000 horses. The "farm house" is probably the most magnificent in the world for it cost £400,000 to build and is more richly furnished than many a royal palace. On the homestead alone are employed a hundred servants. The gardens are superbly laid out, the stables more magnificent than those of the German Emperor and there is accommodation for 500 guests if necessary. Scattered over this vast ranch are a hundred outlying stations, each one of which has charge of a certain portion of the estate. The horsemen, cow punchers line riders, shepherds and hunters number 2,000 and the 14razas ranch is the only one in the world which maintains its own slaughtering and packing plant. Each year 150,000 head of cattle are slaughtered, dressed and packed, and 100,000 sheep. Don Luis personally superintends the different industries on his ranch, covering many thousands of miles on horseback during a twelfemonth. Don Luis was at one time Governor of Chihuahau, but public life did not suit him; it was too quiet, and he preferred to spend his life riding over the plains and looking after his own enterprises. He is three times as rich as any other man in Mexico and has the name of being liberal and generous toward his workpeople. Don Luls is a very handsome man, married to a beautiful wife. He is the father of twelve children—seven sons and five daughters. The sons are all associated with Don Luls in looking after the ranch, while the daughters, said to be the most beautiful women in Mexico—remain quietly at the homestead. All the children were educated in the United States, are highly accomplished, have travelled through Europe, and speak several languages. Don Luis founded his cattle ranch about fourteen years ago and four years later he sought to import the finest cattle from Scotland and England. But there was a considerable difficulty in the way. The import duty on cattle was so heavy that it was impossible to bring over the animals in quantities sufficient for his purpose, so Don Luis appealed to the Maxican Government, pointed out the absurdity of restricting the importation of good stock into the country and succeeded in getting the import tax repealed. Since that time Terrazas has increased his stock by the importation of something like 5,000 bulls of the best breeds from the famous studs of Europe. Five years ago Terrazas installed on his ranch four big reservoirs coating £100,000, besides which there are 300 wells scattered over the huge farm, some of them going down to a depth or 500 feet. These wells, the water from which is raised by the use of windmills, cost another £100,-000. Every kind of grain is grown and Don Lulis is constantly experimenting in the raising of different "foods for supplying the wants of his immense herds during the rainless season. An enemy which has to be sternly fought on this great ranch is fire, and scarcely a summer passes without great tracts of prairie being laid waste by its destroying advance. Through the torrid months there is a man-stationed on the lookout at every station each hour of the twenty-four, and directly he sees indications which tells him that fire has started be rings the massive alarm bell and and in an incredibly short time men come riding in ready to fight the danger with their lives if necessary. The frightened cattle are driven sideways from the oncoming fire and then the enemy is attacked from the rear. It is no good attempting to stop a prairie fire from the front, for its progress is too rapid and too annihilating. Heavy chains are dragged along the ground which help to weaken and displace the fire. Across the prairie long furrows fifty feet apart are quickly made, and these also help to stem the progress of the fire. All night the fight is kept up, and not until the last spark is quenched are the men able to take food and rest. In these efforts to subdue the names Jon Luls and his sons are usually seen working like demons and urgin, their men to greater efforts. Fighting a prairie fire has all the elements of danger and for excitement it has few equals. For this reason Don Luls takes a fierce delight in combating the names and declares that it is one of the fascinations of a prairie life. Men with blue or gray eyes are almost invariably the best shots. Worries and Fears of the Nervous in the Tornado Belt. To the region where tornadoes are common, which is a pretty narge territory, nearly every family has one member who has a highly developed fear of storms. When warm weather and the cyclone put in their appearance the scary one begins the proproportion of a safe retreat, probably in the cellar under the house; or if he happens to be a thirty-third degree member of the Amalgamated Order of Fraidcats, he has a cave lined with reenforced concrete constructed somewhere in the back yard. In his cave or cellar retreat the coward puts a bed, and if she has it bad he is apt to lay in a stock of provisions and a barrel of water. During the day the other members of the family have a good deal of fun chafing the coward; but he gets even at night by disturbing their sleep. Among other peculiarities of the cyclone coward is an optical illusion which possesses him about the time the bass begin to bite. From then until harvest time every cloud he sees assumes a funnel shape and he is sure we are going to have a twister. And he never misses a cloud. When he sees one, he gets up, gathers up his clothes and th insurance papers and proceeds to try to herd the family to safety. If the coward happens to be the man of the house he s notetts succeeds in dragging the sleepy wife and children t the cellar while he looks out the door until a gentle summer shower begins to fall. But if the coward is the wife she never has much success with the old man beyond getting him angry, and because of her duty to the children she takes them to the fraid hole, abandoning the husband to his fate—and sleep. About once in 2,000,000 times the cyclone coward makes a good bet and then his name is numbered with the survivors. But it costs him a lot of good sleep. Strange Scenes at Conventions. To a newcomer a political convention is an hitherto unimagined carnival of senile friskiness, noise, temper and downright lunacy. The social leader, the millionaire; the flashy, hall-fellow-well-met who lives by the sweat of his political brow; the important politician from a small city; the difident, nervous, country lawyer; the gaping hackwoodman; the suave, confident statesman, all mingle here to plot and plan, to mine and countermine, to charge and retreat, and to take in flank and in the rear, just as armies struggle with strength and strategy for the mastery of a field. And as the smoke of battle brings beyond the surface of civilization's veneer the primeval instincts of man, so is the rougher man exposed in the sight of the convention hall, with its ambitions, its hatred and its just of power. Although such moments do not come in all conventions, in each the same lack of dignity may be found. The easily aroused laughter, the readiness to cheer at any and all times, the highly strung nerves on which, it may happen, an orator plays with results that can be compared to the ease with which the French people were accustomed to raise and pull down their popular heroes—these are some of its inilenable traits. Why is baseball so popular. It is in no sense a gambling game. Men do not go to a baseball game for the purpose of winning the price of a box at the theatre, a suit of clothes, or an elaborate dinner with a party of friends. No betting sheds are found in baseball enclosures. There are no bookmakers with odds on the different teams posted up. And practically all of them forbid the sale of any drinks more harmful than soda water, root beer, and similar "soft" beverages. Lovers of baseball do not turn out in order to drink or gamble. They go because they are really fond of the sport. The baseball "fan" goes because he likes to get out into the open air, to sit in grandstand or on bleacher for an hour or two, and see efficient athletes contest for the mastery. There is no brutality about baseball, nothing that is debasing or demoralizing. And it is the most popular sport in the United States to-day, as for many years past. It will be popular long after public sentiment has closed every race track at which gambling is permitted.—Salt Lake Herald. A railroad in Honduras which has just been opened to traffic as far as Celba, thirty-five miles, was built with creosoted pine ties from the United States. It is worthy of note that while creosoted pine ties are being shipped from the United States to Honduras, hardwoods are coming to the United States from that country. Americans are doing the shipping both ways. A tract of 8,000 acres in Honduras has been secured by an American company which will cut the mahogany and other valuable hardwoods and ship them to the United States.—Forest and Stream. A man whose house adjoined the railway, kept a goat tethered in his garden. A friend asked him one day what was the use of the goat. "Use of the goat!" he replied. "Man, that goat keeps me in coals. Never a train passes but the fireman throws a bit of coal at it." The American Game. Honduran Hardwood. Why He Kept a Goat. The Weekly Society Attorney A. W. Scott will either go to Atlantic City or Boston, Mass. Mr. Joseph H. Jones and wife have returned to the city from Silcott Springs. Miss J. E. Anderson, who has been summering at Silcott Springs, has returned. Prof. J. D. Baltimore has returned to the city from Silcott Springs. Rev. Ray, of Zion Methodist Church preached a most eloquent sermon last Sunday morning. The singing by the choir, under the leadership of Prof. J.-T. Newman, was excellent. Miss Clarice Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Jones, left the city Monday for Wilberforce University. Misses Eva A. Chase and Rachel Bell have returned to the city from the North, where they have been all the summer. Mrs. Marietta Cinkscales is visiting friends in New York city and Brooklyn. While there she will be the guest of Mrs.Eva Coxton Seward. Before retraining home she will visit the B. M. C. of the G. U. O. of O. F. at Atlantic City. Mrs. William H. Johnson and daughter Marie, of 1904 Third street northwest, have returned to their home after spending a delightful vacation in Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. R. R. Cobert, of this city, has been visiting for the past two weeks in Atlantic City, A. J., with her sister Mrs. John C. Geiger, of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Jones and wife have returned from Silcott Springs, Va. Professor Montgomery left the city Monday morning on a hunting trip. Dr. S. H. George, physician and singer, ot raucah, Ky., and Prof. G. A. Lowes, Jr., ot Shaw University, were in the city last week. Dr. J. E. Sneppard paid the city a visit last week. Mrs. Naplu W. Tyler and sons, who spent the summer in Ohio, have returned to Washington. Miss Cance Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Jones, lett the city Monday to enter Cornell University. Rev. S. R. W. Drew will leave the city today to join his wife in the South. Among those who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Chapman, at Lincoln, D. C., this summer are: Misses Wayne, Dublin and Joannas, of New York city; Stack, Murphy and Coleman, of Baltimore, Md. Miss Campbell, of this city, returned this week. Mr. W. H. McNeal, of this city, is at Alexander Bay, N.Y. He will return to the city shortly. Mr. W. E. Fletcher, of the City Postoffice, and his wife, Mrs. Mary V. Fletcher, returned to the city on Wednesday morning from Merrith, Pa., where they have been visiting for three or four weeks. While there they were the guests of the parents of Mrs. Fletcher. They had a most enjoyable trip. Prof. Alice Cary, of Atlanta, Ga., was in the city this week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lankford. Prof. H. M. Brown, of Cheney, Pa., was in the city Wednesday on business. Mr. Thomas H. Wright is in Atlantic City. Attorney W. C. Martin will leave for Atlantic City tomorrow. Dr. E. D. Scott and daughter, Miss Marion, have returned to the city. Editor Devaux, of the Savannah Tribune, was in the city this week. Ex-Register J.W.Lyons, of Georgia, has returned to the city from the South. Register W. P. Vernon has returned. Auditor Ralph W. Tyler arrived from New York a few days ago. You will receive no paper next because you haven't paid your subscript- Everybody pays his subscription but you. Why don't you send a check, postal money order, or registered letter? No more deadheads after this issue. Send your money if you want The Bee. WILSON — HENDESRON A quiet but very pretty wedding occurred last Monday afternoon at two o'clock, when Miss Helen E.Wilson was united in marriage to Mr. Joseph S. Henderson. Miss Wilson was becomingly gowned and made an exceedingly pretty picture whi'e the solemn services were being pronounced which made her the bride of the groom. Mrs. W.M. Miller served as bridesmaid, wearing a handsomely tailored gown that gave both grace and beauty to her figure. The groom, Mr. Henderson, is one of the popular porters in the Pullman service, and together with his bride left for Atlantic City, where a portion of the honeymoon will be spent. MR. UNDERDOWN s Mrs.Margaret Underdown, wife of Mr. Alexander Underdown, the popular caterer and delicatessen man at the corner of Fourteenth and S sts., has been spending the summer with her mother in Cincinnati,Ohio, where she is taking a much needed rest.The Bee regrets to learn that maternal duties have forced Mrs. Underdown to retire from active connection with the California Fruit and Delicatessen Store,the present beautiful and flourishing condition of which establishment has been largely brought about through her neatness, courteous manners, business tact, and devotion to duty. The Bee wishes Mr. Underdown continued prosperity. THE BENEFIT A SUCCESS. The benefit given in honor of Miss Lulu Ellis, at 1522 L street northwest, last Friday evening, was an entire success, and far surpassed the expectations of the ladies who gave it. The suggestion was made by Miss Mary Reese to a number of her friends, as well as Miss Ellis' friends some weeks ago, and heartily agreed upon by a'll. Tickets were printed, and sold very readily, one noted young man taking fifty. It is thought by the committee that when all returns are in about fifty dollars will be realized. The lawn was decorated in Japanese lanterns, which made a pretty and an effective sight. Music was furnished by Mr. Henry Davis and his friends, consisting of mandolins, guitars. Committeee — Miss Mary Reese, Miss Nanme Lewis, Miss Mary Bradford, Mrs. George Payne and Mrs. L. K. Chambers, were among those present. .. COUNCILMAN CUMMINGS .. HONORED. Democratic Governor of Maryland Appoints Leading Negro Repub- on Record. Governor Crothers has appointed Hon. Harry S. Cummings to represent the State of Maryland at the National Negro Fair to be held in Mobile the last of November. The honor came to Mr. Cummings unsolicited and is the first time a Negro has been appointed by a governor of the State of Maryland to represent the Commonwealth. Mr. Cummings is the leading attorney of Baltimore,and is also a member of the City Council from the Seventeenth Ward. He was largely instrumental in making the reception of the National Negro Business League in that city the most brilliant that the Maryland metropolis has ever known. Governor Cro- thers' action is both a fitting recognition of Mr. Cummings and a testimonial to the value and importance of the great fair projected at Mobile by Dr. H. W. Newsome. MR. HERSHAW WAKES UP. Discovers That Dr. Booker T. Washington Is a Statesman — New York World Interview on "Lynching" Commended as "Unexceptionable." Mr. L. M. Hershaw, editor of the "Outlook Department" of the Horizon, published in this city, has the following significant comment to make upon the recent deliverance of Dr. Booker T. Washington on the lynching evil. Mr. Hershaw has long been looked upon as an irreconcilable opponent to the teachings, philosophies and methods of the "Wizard of Tuskegee," and it is noteworthy to find a common ground upon which they are able to meet. Says Mr. Hershaw: "On the 19th of August, Mr. Booker T. Washington sent to the New York World from Baltimore a communication consisting of six or seven hundred words, leading with the lynching question, doubtlessly suggested by the Springfield affair, though he does not specifically say so. His views as here expressed are the c'earest, strongest and most courageous he has uttered since his Chicago speech at the celebration of the close-of the Spanish-American War. The whole statement is unexceptionable." After over a decade of critical examination, Mr. Hershaw has finally awakened to what everybody else has long since found out — that Dr.Book is a staeseman. However, revelation and conversion even at the e'eventh hour is better than to die in one's sins. There is hope for Mr. Hershaw. RALLY AND BARBECUE There were fully five to six thousand people present on Labor Day at Madre's Park to the Taft and Sherman Rally and aBrbecue. Rev. Simon P. W. Drew presided, and in a short, interesting address he introduced as the first speaker ex-Justice E. M. Hewlett, who delivered a most eloquent address. He was followed by Rev. George W. Lee, who paid his respects to the colored independent agitators — Rev. Corrothers, Walters, Newsome and others. Rev. Wilbanks also spoke and he was followed by Editor W. Calvin Chase, of The Bee. There was music, dancing and the slaughtering of a large fat cow, from which the thousands took a piece. It was a great day for Repub'icans. RATIFICATION MEETING. Great Ratification Meeting of Negro Republicans at Madre's Park, on Labor Day — Taft and Sherman Endorsed, and Democracy Assailed by Eminent Negroes — Thousands Attended. Fully five thousand colored people crowded Madre's aPrk, Eckington, Dr. C., Labor Day, September 7, 1908, attending the ratification meeting of Negro Republicans of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the National Negro Taft and Sherman Campaign Bureau — Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, president—and joint auspices of the Cosmopolitan Temple Baptist Church, of which Dr. Drew is pastor, and the National Negro Labor Union. Dr. Drew's church is located in N street between Ninth and Tenth sts. northwest, Washington, D. C. The meeting was called to order by the New Empire Orchestra playing "America;" after which they again played "John Brown's Body Lies Molding in the Grave," the immense throng joining in the singing. After which Dr. Drew, who presided, said in part: "Never before since the disfranchisement of our race has it been as important as now that the Negro should make no mistake in casting his vote. Within the past four years certain things have happened affecting the race which have caused many of its leading men of thought to urge upon the Negro the advisability of supporting the Democratic nominees as a warning to all political parties as regards their treatment of the race. Should the Negro support the party of slavery, the worst that ever disgraced the globe; that has disfranchised him merely because he is a Negro; that established the Jim Crow system to humiliate and disgrace his wife and daughter by compelling them to ride in cars unfit for beasts and subject them to all kinds of diseases; the party that has always opposed him in his manhood rights and tells him now that he does not want his vote; or, shall he support the party of freedom, the party that gave us the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the party that has given us every right that we enjoy? This is the question that the Negro is to decide within the next few weeks. We have therefore met today to hear some of the brainiest men now of our race upon these questions. I have the honor, of intgroducing to you Judge E. M. Hewlett, who will speak to you." Judge E. M. Hewlett said in part. The Democratic party has always been the party of oppression; the party of disfranchisement; the party of Jim Crowism, while the Republican party has always been the party of freedom. It was the Republican party that freed the Negro; that made him a citizen and gave him the ballot; that erected the schoolhouse where the auction block stood; that gave the race representation as foreign ministers, United States Senators, members of Congress, Registers of the Treasury, and the like. Why then are we asked by prominent men of our race to to desert the grand old party? It is on account of the Brownsville incident. No man regrets more than I do the discharge of those gallant boys; no man is a firmer believer in their innocence than I am. Still I as firmly believe that the President acted in perfect good faith in this matter, and that the color of the skin of the soldiers had nothing whatever to do with his action. He has always stood for justice and right, regardless of the color of the skin. Judge Taft is condemned because he carried out the order of the president. How ridiculous! Does any man honestly believe that Judge Taft, born of abolition parents, parents who were prominent workers with the underground railroad, that carried many a poor, weary slave to freedom, could possibly be anything other than friendly toward our race? His sympathies have always been, and always will be on the side of the oppressed, and, if elected president, he will know no man by the color of his skin. Shall we, on account of the discharge of these soldiers, sacrifice the interests of ten millions of our race? No no; a thousand times no Editor W. Calvin Chase, of The Bee," that veteran journalist of the Negro race, also delivered a powerful address urging upon his hearers the great necessity of voting for the G. O. P. No man in all the country speaks with more power, convincing, swaying and determined in his oratory, than W. Calvin Chase, whose voice rings out clear, as the sound of a clarion upon the morning breeze, whose physique is as commanding as that of Bismarck, and whose manner is as assiduous as that of Doug'ass. The stifling cheers that greeted his remarks manifested that his hearers drank deeply from the fountain of his brilliant essaying. Dr. A. Wilbanks,pastors of Friendship Baptist Church, Chaplain W. H. Colston and others concluded the speech-making, which they did with great credit to themselves and the party. The meeting was a great success from every standpoint, and was largely attended, as the day was without blomish from an atmospheric standpoint. The next speaker was Dr. George W. Lee, pastor of Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, whose very name when mentioned called forth loud applause. Dr. Lee spoke in the vein characteristic of himself, and which has made him famous in these parts. Always to the point, mincing neither words nor language, he went forthwith to the hearts of his hearers. INSPECTOR ASHFORD. The District Commissioners, in their vindication of Inspector Ashford was not more than what the public expected. There was no evidence whatever to convict him. Commissioner Morrow, from the very inception of the trial, declared that his office was above suspicion. The decision of Commissioners West and Macfarland vindicated Inspector Ashford and confirmed what Colone! Morrow said at first. There is no government in these United States that is conducted upon a cleaner basis than our present local government. There is less scandal and less wrongdoing in all branches of our local government than in any government in the United States. The Bee congratulates Col. Morrow and highly commends Commissioners West and Macfarland for the thorough manner in which they conducted the investigation. MISS POPE DEAD. Miss Barbara Pope, the eldest EXCURSION SEASON For 1908 Steamer River Queen to Washington 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 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. WORTH ADVERTISING FOR There are 5,499 Negroes employ Government alone, and these 5,499 $3,044,404. These more than three here in Washington, but scattered. Is this amount of money worth but not even the largest stores in this end of it did they but realize howly spending. Now The Bee is the only Negro without a rival or competitor, and a few of the merchants in this city columns of The Bee, presenting the these Negroes — these 5,499 Negro Government over three millions of firmizing a publication edited and of such firms desire and deserve their receive the bulk of these over three spent by the Negroes of Washington. What clothing stores, what fur, and what other lines of business will themselves these over three million Negroes by advertising in The Bee. Place your advertising in The Beive Negroes spend their over three. Now is the time to advertise in into every Negro home in Washington. it's what advertising p groes draw salaries aggregating illions of dollars are spent right long the hundreds of tradesmen. ing for? It certainly is, and would refuse to get the big ch money the Negroes are real- lication in this city. It stands ers the field like a blanket. If patronize the advertising col- active bargains they may have, es who draw annually from the ars — will assume that by pat uted by one of their race that ronage. And such firms will ions of dollars received and re stores, what dry goods stores ow make an effort to divert to f dollars spent by Washington and watch these 5,499 apprecia- illions of dollars with you. Bee, the newspaper that goes . Remember, merchants of you, not what it costs. HIC STUDIO. ren & Turner has just open- that commends itself by the water colors. 248 Ninth Street Northwest 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 patronize the 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 bf 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 goods stores and what other lines of business will now make an effort to divert to themselves these over three millions tf dollars spent by Washington Negroes by advertising in The Bee? Place your advertising in The Bee and watch these 5,499 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. NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO. The new photographic studio of W. ed. It is an up-to-date studio and a superior class of work it turns out. Life-size portraits in oil, pastel and WARREN & TURNER, ColoredSkin I For centuries, scientific men's skin lighter coloured, not by arti- way. At the Chemical Wonder Co. ed Complexion Wonder, which on every time it it applied. Their coloring is natural. The ef- is magical. Price of Complexi- Wonder Co. has another prepa- colored people as well as whiter, a toilet preparation which pre- circles the body with perfumed, physically welcome in society or tomers secure better positions in! Our women customers advance Wonder $1.00. If you have hairt cription, but if you have our' have no more trouble. It con- takes out the kinks and makes well. 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At the Chemical WonderCo. of New York has discovered Complexion Wonder, which does bring a lighter natural color every time it it applied. The effect is not artificial. The lighter coloring is natural. The ef-fect on the colored countenance is magical. Price of Complex-ion Wonder 50c. The Chemical Wonder Co. has another prepa-ration which is indspensable for colored people as well as whitepeople. It is called Odor Wonder, a toilet preparation which pre-vents perspiration odor and encircles the body with perfumeddaintiness. It will make any one physically welcome in society orbusiness circles. Our men customers secure better positions inbanks, clubs or business houses. Our women customers advancefaster in life. Price of Odor Wonder $1.00. If you have hairtrouble, write us for special prescription, but if you have ourWonder Hair equipment you will have no more trouble. It con-sists of "Wonder Uncurl" which takes out the kinks and makeshair soft and pliable so as to dress well. A bottle of Wonder Hair-grow tonic to make the hair grow longer and a metal magneticcomb, all in one box $1.00. We will send all the specialties of theChemical Wonder Co. for $2. and guarantee they will do moreto advance colored people socially and commercially than showygarments or gew-gaw jewelry. Booklet free. Delivery free.Applications for agency considered. M. B. Berger & Co., 2 RectorSt., New York, selling agents for Chemical Wonder Co. daughter of the late William Pope, of Georgetown, D. C., committed suicide in Lovers Lane, Massachusetts avenue extended, Saturday evening, September 5. Miss Pope was formerly a teacher in the public schools of this city. She had a remarkable intellect, having written several stories which commanded her liberal pay. Miss Pope, since last June, had bee stopping in Finchester, Va., with friends. She went there to regain served here in Washington by the Negroes draw salaries aggregating for millions of dollars are spent right among the hundreds of tradesmen. Adding for? It certainly is, and city would refuse to get the big much money the Negroes are real-publication in this city. It stands covers the field like a blanket. If will patronize the advertising-collective bargains they may have, Negroes who draw annually from the dollars — will assume that by pat operated by one of their race that patronage. And such firms will millions of dollars received and on.iture stores, what dry goods stores I now make an effort to divert to as tf dollars spent by Washington be? We and watch these 5,499 appreciation millions of dollars with you. The Bee, the newspaper that goes on. Remember, merchants of days you, not what it costs. 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Her sister returned with her to the city, Sunday, August 31, and her death resulted as announced above, to the regret of a large number of her friends. FOR RENT. Three rooms and bath flats for rent in a fashionable neighborhood, close to all car lines. Write or call at 2124 L street northwest. YOUTH'S PRIVILEGE (Forrecht der Jugend.) THOMAS MOORE. German Words by the Composer. J. M. 1. What the bee is to the flow-'ret, When he What the bank with ver-dure glowing Is to 1. Wie. die Bie-ne zu der Blü-te, Wenn nach Wie das Uf-er an dem Flus-se Lockt die looks for honey-dew waves that wander near. Through the leaves that do em-bow'r it, Through the Whisp-'ring kisses while they're going, Whisp-'ring Hon-ig-lau sie spürt, Wel-len zu sich an, Vol-ler Lieb' und vol-ler Gü-te, Vol-ler Bie-tet dar sich feuch-tem Kus-se, Bie-tet leaves that do em-bow'r it, That my love I'll be to you, That my kisses while they're going, That I'll be to you, my dear! That I'll Lieb' und vol-ler Gü-te, So hat's mich zu dir ge-führt, So hat's dar sich feuch-tem Kus-se, So ruf' ich dich, lieb-er Mann, So ruf' Copyright, 1906, by American Melody Co., New York. Kleinert's DRESS SHIELDS Every pair of Kleinert's Dress Shields is warranted when properly used, we will not only refund more for shields that are not perfect, but will holdresses responsible for any resulting damage to go. Kleinert's Dress Shields are made in ten sizes 1 to size 10. If your dealer does not up the kind or size you want, send us 25c. Simple pair of either kind in size 3. If you want larger size, add 5c. for each additional size. Send for our Dress Shield Book. Is worth reading. Sent free on application. I. B. KLEINERT RUBBER CO. 721-723-725-727 BROADWAY, 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 our Kleinert's Dress Shields are made in ten sizes, from size 1 to size 10. If your dealer does not keep the kind or size you want, send us 25c. for sample pair of either kind in size 3. If you want larger size, add 5c. for each additional size. Send for our Dress Shield Book. is worth reading. Sent free on application. I. B. KLEINERT RUBBER CO. 721-723-725-727 BROADWAY, NEW YORK W.B. Reduso CORSETS The Perfect Corset for Large Women New W. B. Reduso No. 770. For large tall women. Made of white couil. Hose supporters front and sides. Sizes 20 to 36. Price $3.00. New W. B. Reduso No. 771. Is the same as No. 770, but is made of light weight white batiste. Hose supporters front and sides. Sizes 20 to 36. Price $3.00. New W. B. Reduso No. 772. For large short women. The same as No. 770, except that the bust is somewhat lower all around. Made of white couil, hose supporters front and sides. Sizes 20 to 36. Price $3.00. New W. B. Reduso No. 773, is the same as No. 772, but made of light weight white batiste. Hose supporters front and sides. Sizes 20 to 36. Price $3.00. Ask any dealer anywhere to show you the new which will produce the correct figure for prevailing modes, which are made in such a variety as to guarantee perfect fit. From $1.00 to $3.00 p. WEINGARTEN BROS., Mfrs., 377-379 Ask any dealer anywhere to show you the new W. B. "hip-subdining" models, which will produce the correct figure for prevailing modes, or any of our numerous styles which are made in such a variety as to guarantee perfect fit for every type of figure. From $1.00 to $3.00 per pair. WEINGARTEN BROS., Mfrs., 377-379 BROADWAY, NEW YORK It places over-developed women on the same basis as their slender sisters. It tapers off the bust, flattens the abdomen, and absolutely reduces the hips from 1 to 5 inches. Not a harness—not a cumbersome affair, no torturing straps, but the most scientific example of corsetry, boned in such a manner as to give the weaker absolute freedom of movement. Klineitts THE GEM DCUBLE COVERED Klineitts FEATHER WEIGHT WASHABLE Klineitts JUNO ODORLESS NO RUBBER or large support- $3.00. e same as e batiste. 20 to 36. or large apt that the of white 20 to 36. e same as white. Hose ice $3.00. RUBBER FINGERS. I'hy're Common Enough Now. But Many Still Cut off a Glove Finger. When you cut your finger nowa- tors and wrap it up in gauze, you can't have to hunt for an old pair goves and lop off a finger to from the outer bandage of your banded member; you simply go the drug store and buy a rubber finger for a nickel. And yet many persons go on cut- ing off glove fingers. They have into the habit of saving up old gloves for just such purposes of home surgery, and the habl sticks pertinaciously. Most of them don't know that you can get rubber fingers of all sizes. They are made to fit the baby who rubs his first adventures is pretty sure to find a knife somewhere and to acquire the knowledge that it cuts, and grownups, too, no matter how the hand. And they are mighty intelligent, for you put one on and stays on, whereas you know a finger has to be tied on by rings passing over the hand and around the wrist. New devices to save time and both put on the market daily, but takes some folks a long time to find out about them.—New York Sun. Golden Wedd ngs. Married couples look eagerly forward to their golden wedding anniversary, and immediate after its celebration one or the other as a rule, dies. This is due to superstition. If the golden wedding were celebrated at sixty-five years of marriage, life people would live fifteen years longer than they do, ever looking forward in happy anticipation of its approach. Let's try it. Out of 1,000 couples only seventeen live to celebrate their golden wedding. Assuming that the marriage takes place at 20 years, this means a life of three-score and ten, the allotted space. The golden wedding is the crossing of the Rudicon. About the Potato... The history of this vegetable affords a striking illustration of the influence of authority. For more than two centuries its use as a food was evidently opposed. At last Louis XV. wore a burch of its flowers in the midst of his courtiers, and the consumption of the root became universal in France. House Refuse in Germany. In certain towns in Germany householders are compelled by law to sort out their house dust. They have to provide three receptacles one for ashes and sweepings, one for love I'll be to you. But they say the bee's a rover, That he'll be to you my dear! mich zu dir ge-führt. Doch die Bien' ist nicht be-stän-dig, Wenn der ich dich, lieber Mann. fly when the sweets are gone; And when once the kiss is over, Faith-less Tau von der Blüt' ist fort, Und die Wel-len sind un-bän-dig, Küs-sen brooks will wan-der on! Nay, if flow'rs will lose their looks, If sun-ny banks will wear a-bald 'nen aud-ern Ort! Weun die Blüt' auch wel-ken muss, Wenn's somn'ge Uf-er auch ver- way, 'Tis but right that bees and brooks Should sip and kiss them while they may. weht, Ist's nur recht, dass Bien' und Fluss, Sie so lang küss-en wie es geht. Youth's Privilege. 2 pp—2d p. cooking refuse, and one for rags and paper. The rubbish 's utilized by the town authoritie3. Electric Meat Saw. The up-to-date butcher shop is now provided with an electric meat saw, and the old handsaw's relegated to the junk pile. In its place is a small handsaw driven by an electric motor, which severs all boxes in a neat and expeditious manner. Whales and Dolphins; About 40 different kinds of whales and dolphins are known, and although they live in the open sea and look like fish they are not fish at all, but are true mammals, breathing air and feeding their young on milk like cows and horses. Tobacco Smoke. The smoke from the bowl of one's pipe is blue because coming direct from the red hot tobacco, it is very highly oxidized, but the smoke from one's lips, is gray, because it is highly watered and hydrocarbonized. Costly Attempts. It has become known that the three attempts made by Sir Thomas Lipton to capture the America's cup, the intrinsic value of which is about $250...have cost him $500,000 for yachts alone. Effect of Color on Dew. The deposit of dew is greatly influenced by color. It will be found thickest on a board painted yellow, but not at all on red and black. Float the Wearer. A suit of clothes which will float the wearer in case of accident at sea, has been patented by a Norwegian inventor. Mail Orders, in the East. Mail orders for merchandise are practically unknown in China and the East in general. An intoxicated person is, as a rule, no more fit to be at large than a lunatic. No one may say what he will do next. The rock of Gibraltar is honey-combed with 70 miles of tunneling. The Bank of England employs about 1,000 people. England has about 13,000 square miles of coal fields. Ninety-six per cent of the coal is produced north of the equator. In many parts of Africa, gin is the only currency. WANTED—A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit a simple Latest Model "Ranger" bicycle furnished by us. Our assets everywhere are making money fast. Write for full particulary and special offer at once. NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. without a cent deposit in advance, pay freight, and allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will not be and one cent. FACTORY PRICES We furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make to $9 middlemen's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT HURT A pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory prices and remarkable special offers to rider agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED study our superb models at the wonderfully low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory costs. BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at our prices until the day received. We regularly handle second hand bicycles, but require a number on hand taken in by our bicycle retail stores. These require our SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clean out promptly at prices ranging from $30 or $10. Descripte bargain lists mailed free to our address. Pedals, parts, repairs and components of all kinds at the local retail stores. ALCOHOL AIR HYDROGEN and easyriding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing water to leak. We offer a range of from satisfactory customers stating that their tires have only been pumped upon once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $9.50 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day. the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 3 per cent (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. approval. You do not pay a tent amount you have to pay. We will allow a cash discount of 3 per cent (thereby making send FULL CASH WITH OIREI and enclose this adver nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires will be returned at OURS not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have to know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a We want you to send us a trial order at bence this remark don't buy any kind at as you HEED TIRES Hedgehorn Puncture-P the special introductory price quoted above or write for our big describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NO offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and writes us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle DO NOT WAIT or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, Remove the dandruff if you want fine lustrous hair. Give your hair a chance to thrive by using Beautiful women in the world of fashion keep their hair healthy and beautiful by regular use of this peerless French preparation. Try it for yourself—simply send us loc. (to pay postage and packing) and we will send you enough for three applications—Write to-day. PARFUMERIE ED. PINAUD Try it for yourself—simply send us loc. (to pay postage and packing) and we will send you enough for three applications—Write to-day. sell you a simple pair for $20 cash with order $5.5 NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold fast year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION Made in all sizes. It is lively and exciting, very durable and lined inside wi ```markdown ``` Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D." also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make-SOFT, ELASTIO and EASY RIDING. Ceremony of a Set of Brahmins in Honor of Gods of Fire and Water. Six thousand Hindus and a select few English officials have recently witnessed in the neighborhood of Madras a remarkable religious ceremony, the principal actors being Sivrastas, a sect of Brahmins. The festival was called "the match through fire," and it is appropriately enough named. The ceremonies were in honor of Brahma and Vishnu, the gods of water and fire. Fr. a stons for the ceremony had been going on for a month. A French twenty-three feet long and nineteen feet deep was dug and in a fire was kindled. At sunrise, early fanatics, who were to demonstrate their asbestos nature, slowly searched around the furnace, bearing the curious ido's. The Savasas were clothed in yellow tunics, and without hesitation, entered the fire trench singing a brimn the reign of which was "Govindal! Gorilla. After walking around this street a Gehenna three times they emerged apparently none, the worse for their experience, and have established an unassailable claim for sanctity among their people.—London Gate A Remarkable Test. A Copenhagen newspaper, with a view to testing the comparative rate of speed of various telegraph systems sent off to itself two telegrams, each of five words; one telegram went eastward while the other went to the west. One telegram went via Shanghai, New York, and London; while the other went via London, New York and Shanghai the telegram sent off by Shanghai or the eastern route, arrived back in Copenhagen in three hours, 23 minutes. Each telegram had to be taken over and telegraphed afrcsh eight times during transmission — London Chronicle. An Underground Wonder. One of the most wonderful underground waterways in the world, which was constructed at the latter end of the eighteenth century by the Dukes of Bridgewater, is now being used for the conveyance of waste water from the Earl of Ellesmere's tolls at Walkden, near Manchester. This canal, which is entirely undergound, with its arms and junctions overlays over 40 miles Vibration of Wings. Recent measurements of the vibrations of the wings of a dragon fly in the Stuttgart University showed that they ranged from 1.000 to 12.000 a second. The common house fly makes 60 strokes of its wings a second when flying at its highest speed. Automobile Disease. The automobile disease" has been discovered by Dr. Henry Becker of New York After studying the maady for a year he says it affects the tissues of the throat and lungs, causing congestion and decay. The Wonderful Petrel. The tiny stormy petrel is a bird of immense wing power; it be.ongs to every sea and, although so seeming, y fra.l. it casily breasts furious storms. Petrels have been observed 2,000 miles from nearest land. Mohammedan Photography. Until a few years ago Mohammedang were greatly opposed to photography but now they have taken it up seriously, and some photographers of real merit are found among them Sorrow Is Fleeting. The compensation that life offers for growing old is finding out that sorrow is as fleeting as joy, and that there are just as many picnics to come a we have missed. No Flies on This Cow. Missouri's latest is a cow with two ta's, which brushes the files from both of her sides at once. Man who mills her muet have happy times. Coal in Canada. A serious problem for the people of Canada to solve is the fuel supply of the future. No coal of any kind has ever been discovered in Ontario. Taxing the Single. During the reign of William and Mary, bachelors and widowers over 25 years were taxed one shilling early Within 20 miles of New York City Hall there is a population of 1,000,- 100 Jews, more than in all America besides. A Thin Film. The film of a soap bubble is so thin that fifty millions of them would be required to make one inch. There are three kinds of lies—white lies, black lies and society fbs. When misery is at hand there isn't much pleasure in recalling former joys. In Portugal married women retain their maiden names and are always known by them. A mole eats as many as 20,000 earth worms in the course of a year. Annual Annoucement MANUFACTURINGJEWELER 725 7th Street, Northwest Everybody has some friend whom they wish to make happy. It may be mother or father, sister or brother. It may be a wife, or it may be a sweetheart — and no better time than Christmas is so appropriate — so suggestive. Nothing makes one feel happier than to gladden the heart of another. Our stock of Jewelry and Bric-a-brac is now complete. Each is elected and we feel satisfied thata visit from you will bear us out can be found anywhere. Why not give us a call tomorrow? will be laid aside and deliveredwhen wanted. Experienced clerks We mention here but a few of our specials. Gentlemen's 20-year Gold Filled Am- mium Stem Winders and Setters, $10. Ladies' 20-year Gold Filled Stem Winders and Setters, $10. Gentlemen's 14-karat Solid Gold Am- mium Stem Winders and Setters, as cheap as $35. Children's Solid Silver Watches with Pn Attachment, $2.50; regular price, $4.50. Ladies' Solid Cold Watches, Open Face, $8.00. Boys' Solid Silver Watches, $5.00 up. DIAMONDS. Put Your Monet. in Diamonds. No Better Investment Today. Prices in the Diamond market are advancing, but OUR PRICES HAVE ENEEN ADVANCED in some time. We still have a large collection of superb Diamonds which we bought a considerable time ago at lower prices than prall today. We shall not advance prices on these stores. We are merchants and not simulators, and our fair percentage of is all we ask. So, as long as these Diamonds last, it will be possible to buy them here under the regular market for W.Sidney Arch W.SidneyPittman Architect RENDERING IN MONOTONE, WATER COLOR AND PEN & INK STEEL CONSTRUCT Poone: Main 6059-M. Office Virginia vs. Havana. STEEL CONSTRUCTION A SPECIALTY. Poone: Main 6059—M. Office 494 Louisiana Ave., N.W. Virginia vs. Havana. "Havana is spelt with a 'B' on genuine imported cigar boxes and with a 'V' in the case of home-made cigars," explained a tobaccoist presented at Cardiff recently, for selling British cigars as Havana. The magistrate agreed that the custom prevailed and inflicted a nominal fine.—London Dally. The gypsies are nearer to the animals than any race known to us in Europe. They have the lawlessness and abandonment, the natural physical grace in form and gesture of animals; only a stealthy and something wary in their eyes makes them human.—Arthur Symons. Pharaoh's mummy has been discovered and unfolded, and the eyes of the readers of these pages can rest on the very features on which the eyes of Moses looked 3,000 years and more ago. Youth is the best time for the building of character and the forming of principle, and the future depends on the decisions and actions of the present.—Rev. G. Denton. A wise man has well reminded us that in any controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.—Carlyle. According to statistics quoted by Congressman Cooper, the fatalities in Pennsylvania's mines rose from 611 in 1898 to 1,514 in 1908. In shortening the hours of labor, no one tries to shorten the hours for women in the household. "A Natural Inference. "Pop," anxiously inquired the doctor's inquisitive little boy, "is a jumping toothache a muscular pain?" —Baltimore American. Bernaldo in his Calendar says that in medieval times there was much more food than money given for church tithes. J. final piece has been carefully that we have as fine a selection as Any article that you may select 1. The image contains a series of dots arranged in a grid pattern. Each dot is represented by a small square with a black center and white border. The dots are spaced evenly across the grid, creating a uniform pattern. There are no other discernible elements or text present in the image. BARROW TRAVEL IN CHINA. Long Distances Made by Passengers at Small Cost. "Probably more freight and more passengers are transported in China by the wheelbarrow route than by any other land metLod," said Alexander F. Georgil of Hongkong, China, who is interested in the shipping trade in the Far East. The whee barrow used in China differs from that used in America in the fact that the wheel is set in the center and thus supports practically the entire load, while the handle are supports in part by a strap or rope over the shoulders of the man who operates it. "As a result the coolie in China will transport, nearly half a ton on his wheel. Wheelbarrows are much used in the country where the roads are but little developed, and I have heard that passengers sometimes make the entire trip from Shanghai to Pekin, a distance of 600 miles by harrow. "A two passenger barrow will make about 20 miles a day, and the cooie is content with a pay of about twenty cents a day, or an average of about half a cent a mile for each passenger. On the level, well kept streets of the foreign quarters of such cities as Hongkong, Shanghai and Pekin, the wheelbarrow cooie will struggle along with a load of six or even eight people. Figureheads for Autos. In some parts of the civilized world the fetch or idol which disappeare long ago is coming back, in fact, has already returned to duty as a guardian, protector, mascot or whatever one may be pleased to call it. The new idol is in shape according to the fancy of the automobile owner, who places it on the front of the machine to prevent accidents and arrest. These figureheads are all grotesque in style, the most popular being the image of a police officer with watch in hand, a barking cur and a crowing rooster. When Korea Led the World. Few are aware that Korea preceded Europe in inventing three things which have had a vast influence upon the world. Printing with movable types originated in Korea in 1324, 126 years before the invention of the art in Europe. The two other inventions in which the Koreans seem to have anticipated Europe were the mortar and the ironclad, both used with considerable effect, during the Japanese Korean war of 1598-98. A Coy Young Thing. The following advertisement recently appeared: "Being aware that it is indicate to advertise for a husband, I refrain from doing so; but if any gentleman should be inclined to advertise for a wife, I will answer the advertisement without delay. I am young am domesticated, and am considered ladylike. Apply," etc.—Philippines Gossip. E.VOIGT fine stones. Ladies' Diamond Rings, $5.00 to $150 Ladies' Diamond Brooches, $5.50 to $1.00. We have Ladies' Handsome Diamond Rings set in Tiffany Mounting, which we are selling at $30.00. This will make an appropriate present for Christmas Every stone a ball of fire. Youth the Time to Build Wisely Showing Folly of Anger. WATCHES Gypsies and Animals. Pharaoh's Mummy. Deaths Among Miners Long. Weary Day. Food as Church Tithes KEYSTONE D-779 --- earrings, $15.00 to $500.00. scarf Pins, $7.00 up. uff Buttons, $7.00 up studs, $10.00 up. My Pittman nitect PATENT DRAWINGS DRAFTING,DETAILING,TRACING BLUE PRINTING TION A SPECIALTY. 404 Louisiana Ave., N.W BUY THE NEW HOME LIGHT RUNNING SEWING MACHINE Before You Purchase Any Other Write THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY ORANGE, MASS. Many Sewing Machines are made to sell very dess of quality, but the "New Home" made wear. Our guaranty never runs out. We make Sewing Machines to suit all conditions of the trade. The "New Home" stands at the head of all High-grade family sewing machines. Fold by authorised dealers only. FOR SALE @7 McCALL PATTERN 10 15 NEW INDEX McCALL MAGAZINE 50 YEAR AMERICAN MAGAZINE There are more McCall Patterns sold in the United States than of any other make of pattern. This is an interest of their city in pattern and simplicity. McCall's Magazine (The Queen of Fashion) has more subscribers than any other magazine. Our magazine has been growing 50 percent in number, & more. Every subscriber gets a free 10-page magazine from McCall's. Lady Agents Wanted. Kindly provide their social promotion. Partner Catalogue (of box de- tenure) and Funeral Catalogue (sharing one pre- mium box). Address THE MCCALL'S NEW YORK THE BEE AND McCALL'S GREAT FASHION MAGAZINE for one year for $2.00. COUPO'. Editor Bee:— Find enclosed two dollars. Send to my address below The Bee and M~all's Fashion Magazine for one year. t n r No..... Street..... Town or City.... ESTABLISHED 1873 TELEPHONE NORTH 1595 S. H. UNDERTAKE AND FUNERA 1715 Fourtee GOOD CE ACCOMMODA Metallic on Hand F Best S Guara Use Hines H. H. HINES BORTAKER, EMBALMER FUNERAL DIRECTOR Fourteenth St., N. W. GOOD CEMETERY IMMODATIONS Offered Metallic Caskets Hand For Shipping Best Service Guaranteed Hines Cloth Casket. UNDERTAKER,EMBALMER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR 1715 Fourteenth St.,N. 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STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY. commodate 50 Horses. set our new and modern stable DABNEY, Prop., 1132 Third Street N. W. HIGH·DEGREE· Carriages hired for funerals, parties, balls, receptions, etc. Horses and carriages kept in first-class style. Satisfaction guaranteed. Business at 1132 Third street northwest. Main office branch at 222 More street, Alexandria, Va. A HIGH DEGREE because of the exceptional attention bestowed on the making. The only cheapness in it anywhere is the price. A Coodyear-welted shoe, made on several of the season's handsomest lasts, in the most popular leathers. Looks first rate and wears that way every time. It's worth your while to come in and look the Signet over, even if you're not ready to buy Always welcome. because of the exceptional attention bestowed on the making. The only cheapness in it anywhere is the price. A Coodyear-welted shoe, made on several of the season's handsomest lasts, in the most popular leathers. Looks first rate and wears that way every time. It's worth vour while to come in and look the Signet over, even if you're not ready to buy Always welcome. Wm.M 491Per HOLTMAN'S OLD STAN Wm.Moreland 491Penna Ave HOLTMAN'S OLD STAND. BIGV OF THE BIG BOX 210 200 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 -50 -60 -70 -80 -90 -100 OF SATISFACTION IS A FARE THING IN MOST $3.00 SHOES. SHOES AT THIS PRICE USUALLY LACK STYLE OR COMFORT OR BOTH. THE STYLE OF MORE EXPENSIVE SHOES AND GOOD SOLID VALUE ARE FOUND IN CUR SIGNET SHOE EDUCATIONAL HOWARD UNIV School of Medicine 18 67. Rev. W. P. Thirkield, LL.I PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY Medicine - irkield, LL.D., 1908 SIDENT HOWARD UNIVERSITY School of Medicine 18 67. Rev. W. P. Thirkield, LL.D., 1908 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. An optional Five-Year Course in Medicine Full-corps of instructors. Well equipped la The New Freedmen's Hospital, which adjou lege, just completed at a cost of $500,000, o cal facilities. The Third Session of the Post-Graduate S will begin May 9, 1909, and continue six wee and four weeks for Dental Course. For further information or catalogue, write Secretary, 539 Florida avenue, Washington, 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. Dialogue, write W. C. McNeill, M.D.. Washington, D. C. NOTICE. 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. To give everybody an opportunity to try Ford's Hair Pomade, and owing to occasional requests for a smaller size, we have decided to put up a 25c size in addition to our regular 50c size, either size mailed postpaid on receipt of price. Address The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 153 E. Kinzie Street, Chicago, Ill. For further particulars see advertisement elsewhere in this paper. SALES AND DABNEY. FUNERAL DIRECTRESSES —AND— STEWART CAMPBELL, CARRIE SALES —AND— RUTH DABNEY First class service guaranteed at reasonable prices. Carriages furnished for Balls, Parties and Receptions. Phone, Main 2524. ROBERT ALLEN, BUFFET AND FAMILY LIQUOR STORE 1017 14th St. N. W. BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, GUNS, MECHANICAL TOOLS, LADIES' AND GENTS' WEARING APPAREL. UNREDEEMED PLEDGES FOR SALE. 361 Pennsylvania Ave. N. 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, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. If you want to buy a good watch diamond ring, or jewelry of any kind, look at our stock first. You can save money. A SAD DEATH. One of the largest and most impressive funerals took place at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Z. Church, D street between Second and Third streets southwest, was held at the above church Wednesday, September 2nd, over the remains of Miss Carrie I. onesome, who died at her residence. No. 255 Third street southwest, Sunday morning, August 30, after a brief illness of typhoid fever. Miss Lonesome was a graduate of the Washington public schools, and was appointed a teacher in September, 1907. She was considered a model young woman, not alone in the church, but also in the community. The funeral sermon was preached by the pastor, Rev. W. O. Ray, D.D., after which remarks were made by Rev. W. J. Howard, A. Wilbanks, Rev. A. Sayles, and Rev. William D. Jarvis, during which they spoke in the highest terms of the deceased. She leaves to mourn her loss a mother, a step-father, and a host of friends. She was soon to be married to Mr. T. J. Marshall, Sr., who is one of the trustees of the church. Purchase your ice from the Columbia Ice Company wagons. It is the best. Robert Reyburn, M.D., Dean. Absolutely peerless for preserving fruits. Not only preserves, but brings into prominence the the clean flavor and savor of cherries, peaches, pears and tutti frutti. $2.50 ga' ; 65c full qt. CHRISTIAN XANDER'S Quality House 909 7th St. Phone 774 CREDIT FOR ALL WASHINGTON. It's Time To Get Your HOUSE FIXED Up For Fall If your home needs new Furniture, Floor Coverings, or Draperies, come and select what you wish from our superb stocks, and we will gladly arrange the terms of payment to suit you. You will find all our prices marked in plain figures, so that they may be easily compared with what others charge; and you can see that it is not expensive to buy on credit here. All bills are payable at the store —no collector will call at your home, except by special request. All transactions are considered strictly confidential; and no notes or bonds are required. PETER GROGAN 817-819-821-823 7TH ST. HOUSE AND HERMMANN. Nothing is in better form nowadays than this style of furniture for dens, dining, rooms, halls, and various nooks and corners. This Mission Table is just the right size for den or library made of quarter-sawed oak in the popular Early English finish double top, a new idea, and also a new design. When in doubt, buy of OUR PRICE IS $9.85 When in doubt, buy of HOUSE AND HERRMANN Seventh and Eye Sts. N. W. COMPLETE HOMEFURNISHINGS THOMAS J. CALLOWAY, Attorney at Law. 494 Louisiana Avenue, Washington, D. C General Practice. Phone M 2404 Prompt and Careful Attention to All Matters. TRY HIM. DADE'S BUFFET, Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars Polite Attention Ladies' and Gents' Dining Room Meals Served at All Hours Pool Room Attached MOSES DADE, Proprietor, 1216 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. Purchase your ice from the Columbia Ice Company wagons. It is the best. W. C. McNeill, M.D. Secretary. NOTICE OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT. W. C. MARTIN, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. 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. 1908, that Henry Jacskon, Robert Jackson and James Jackson, and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Tuesday, the 18th day of August, A.D. 1908, to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and "The Washington Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned — the first publication to be not less than 30 days before said return day. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wil's for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. C. MARTIN, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding Probate Court. No. 15353. Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia letters of administration c. t.a. on the estate of Emily Haynes, alias Haines, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers threof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 25th day of August A. D. 1909; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 25th day of August. 1908. Robert F. Ward, 434 Ninth St. S.W. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate 'Court. W. C. Martin, Attorney SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding Probate Court. No. 14994. In re Estate of Robert E. Walker; deceased. The object of the petition filed in this cause is to sell the real estate owned by decedent for the payment of debts, the petition being filed by the administrator. On motion of the administrator, it is this 18th day of August, 1908, ordered that Eva Parham, Corr Parham, Amanda Parham, Oakley Parham, and Amelia Hardy, not resident heirs-at-law and next of kin of Robert E. Walker, deceased cause their appearances to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the date of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided, a copy of this order is published at least once a week for three successive weeks in the "Washington Law Reporter" and the "Washington Bee." Attest: James Tanner, Register of W. C. MARTIN, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of Robert W. Taylor, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 13th day of August, A.D. 1909; otherwise they may by law, be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 21st day of August, 1908. William J. Howard, 100 Mass. Ave. N. W. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the, District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W: C. Martin, Attorney. KINK·NE A Beautiful Hair Dressing and Tonic for the Hair! Read what Madam Robinson, the Famous Black Patti, Queen of the Opera, says of Kink-line PROF. ROBERTS, New York City, Dca. 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I find it the most delightful hair dressing and tonic I have ever used, altogether different from the many cheap pomades and vaselines on the market. It makes my hair so beautiful, soft, silky, and has entirely removed all dandruff and stopped it from falling out and breaking off. And enables me to do it up in any of the many styles that I use on the stage. It does all you claim for it, and I would not be without it. Yours sincerely, MME. ROBINSON. Kink-ine Hair Dressing is a delightful perfumed tonic prepared largely for the use of colored people; is guaranteed to be absolutely safe and harmless. It makes harsh, stubborn, kinky, curly hair soft, silky and glossy, enables you to comb it with ease and to dress it in any style that you may wish. MADAM ROBINSON in any style that you KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING by supplying to the scalp, increasing the growth and giving new KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING is for sale at him order it for you; he can get it. If not, send SPECIAL OFFER.—To prove the quality and the bottle of Kink-ine, price 35 cents, one cake of K cents, both for only 50 cents, or six bottles and stores: KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING is for sale at all druggists for 35c per bottle. If your druggist does not keep it have him order it for you; he can get it. If not, send me 50c. and I will send same to you, prepaid. SPECIAL OFFER. To prove the quality and superiority of our goods over all others, we will sell one full-size bottle of Kink-line, price 35 cents, one cake of Kink-line Soap, the best shampoo and Toilet Soap in the world, price 25 cents, both for only 50 cents, or six bottles and six cakes of soap for $3.00. Special offer good only at the following stores: Henry Evins,928 F street north-west. F. A. Tschiffeley, 485 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. William H. Davis and Eleventh street north-west. R. Batinger, prop jet 3,38 W. Fourteenth street, New York City. $1 Cash $1 a Month STOP PAYING RENT ash $1 a Month OP PAYING RENT $1 Cash $1 a Month STOP PAYING RENT OWN YOUR OWN HOME. BEAUTIFUL EAST DUPONT HEIGHTS, WHERE YOU CAN VOTE. Three hundred feet elevation. Healthy spring for its purity. The finest opportunity ever offered public for a home or make an investment. No tax No landlord. No permits. No building restriction No mosquitos. Be independent; raise your own garden products. hundred feet elevation. Healthy spring water, celebrat ed day. The finest opportunity ever offered the Washington home or make an investment. No taxes. No interest. No permits. No building restrictions. No malaria. Be independent; raise your own poultry, pork andDUCTS. 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. LOT5 FROM $11 TO $51. One Dollar Cash and One Dollar It is proposed by the incorporators of the land Electric Railway Company, charter islature, Session 1908, to run their road three Located near Suitland Park, east of Gri the distant from United States Capitol Bu where lots command from $10,000 to $108,000 level land. Take green cars on Pennsylvania Avenue ing East, and transfer to Twining City, wha take you toEast Dupont Heights, Sundays. Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For weekly particulars apply to the One Dollar Cash and One Dollar Per Month. Observed by the incorporators of the Washington and Man- Electric Railway Company, chartered by the Maryland Lea- vision 1908, to run their road through this property. near Suitland Park, east of Greater Washington; twi- tle from United States Capitol Building as Dupont Circ- command from $10,000 to $108,000. Beautiful shade and open cars on Pennsylvania Avenue, marked F and G, go and transfer to Twining City, where free automobiles will East Dupont Heights, Sundays. Agent on the grounds of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For weekly engagements and further apply to the It proposed by the incorporators of the Washington and Maryland Electric Railway Company, chartered by the Maryland Legislature, Session 1008, to run their road through this property. Located near Suitland Park, east of Greater Washington, twice the distance 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, going East, and transfer to Twining City, where free automobiles will take you to East 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, 512 F Street Northwest. BABI The Old Reliable R For twenty-five long years—a quarter never been a remedy equal to Elixir Babi miasmatic diseases. Thousands have used results. Malaria is prevalent now. Do not of you. Begin the use of Babek now. 500 will tell you that Babek is the best thing he For MALARIA, CHILL If you are unable to secure Babek at the in your vicinity write to Kloczewski & C Street, Washington, D. C SABEK The Old Reliable Remedy. Twenty-five long years—a quarter of a century—there has a remedy equal to Elixir Babek for Malaria and such diseases. Thousands have used it with most gratifying malaria is prevalent now. Do not wait for it to take hold in the use of Babek now. 50c Bottles. Your druggist that Babek is the best thing he sells MALARIA, CHILLS & FEVER Unable to secure Babek at the Drug or General Store, unity write to Kloczewski & Co., Chemists, 500 Ninth Washington, D. C Room 6, 512 F Street Northwest. Washington, D. C. BABEK 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 Malaria and such mlasmatic diseases. Thousands have used it with most gratifying results. Malaria is prevalent now. Do not wait 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 For MALARIA, CHILLS and FEVER If you are unable to secure Babek at the Drug or General Stores in your vicinity write to Kloczewski & Co., Chemists, 500 Ninth Street, Washington, D. C CITY HALL LUNCH ROOM. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a first-class lunch room. Everythi petite. Commodious dining rooms for the public a Hot and cold lunches quickly served. CITY HALL LUNCH M.S. from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. first-class lunch room. Everything to appease your appears dining rooms for the public and the Bar Association. Old lunches quickly served. CITY HALL LUNCH ROOM, M.s. Altoper, Proprietress. This is a first-class lunch room. Everything to appease your appetite. Commodious dining rooms for the public and the Bar Association. Hot and cold lunches quickly served. FORSALE FORSALE 1622 11th St., N. W. Two-Story, Bay Window, Pressed Brick, Many ways, Two Bathrooms, Modern and Up to ment; rest, like rent FOUNTAIN PEYTON, 494 1622 11th St., N. W. Bay Window, Pressed Brick, Nine Rooms, Two Stainathrooms, Modern and Up to Date. Small cash paye rent NTAIN PEYTON. Two-Story, Bay Window, Pressed Brick, Nine Rooms, Two Stairways, Two Bathrooms, Modern and Up to Date. Small cash payment; rest, like rent ```markdown ``` 494 Louisiana Ave., N. W. William H. Davis and Eleventh street n. n. west. R. Balinger, prop jet 2, 34S W. Fourteenth street. New York City. WELCOME AND WELCOME THE CLOTHES CLEANING SHOP 014 123 456 789. J. S. J. S. Straighten Your Hair Dear Sirs: I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it. It makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. Mrs. W. F. WALKER, Sir. I-Harriman Trust Ford's Hair Pomade Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow. Fifty years of success has proved its merits. Its use makes the hair straight, glossy, soft and pliable, so you can comb it and arrange it in any style you wish consistent with its length. Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out of breaking off and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless—used with splendid re Absolutely harmless—used with splendid re- sults. Delicately perfumed. Warm and pleasurable. ladies of refinement everywhere declare. Ford's Forsham Pomade has initiators. Do you buy anything else alleged to be "just as good. If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay you. Look for this name If your druggist will not supply you with the penumbra send us, express or postal money grade 30 cents for regular size or 25 cents for small size bottle and give us your druggist's name and address. We will forward bottle prepaid to any points in U. E. A. by return mail on receipt of price. Address The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. 153 East Kentle St. Chicago, IL FORD'S HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. FOR KENT — FURNISHED ROOMS. NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS. Nicely furnished rooms for gentlemen: bath and all modern improvements. Also very desirable light office at 1742 Fourteenth street northwest. A. H. Underdown Three-room flat, large back yard, 412 V street northwest: $9. FOR RENT. Two large clean rooms, with privilege 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 avenue, Burnsville, D. C.; near car line; $17.50. Thomas Walker, Attorney. FOR RENT. Three flats; four rooms; bath and range in each; on Irving street near Howard University. Thomas Walker. 506 Fifth Street Northwest.