Washington Bee

VOL.XXIX NO 28 President Lays Stone WIELDS TROWEL AT NEW COLORED Y. M. C. A. BUILDING. SHAKES MASON'S HAND. Tells W 'men He Likes to Meet the "Men Behind the Gun." SPEAKS TO LARGE CROWD. Commissioner MacFarland, Secretary Morse and Others Address Gathering. President Roosevelt, assisted by prominent officers of the international committee and the local branch of the Y. M. C. A., laid the corner stone of the colored men's branch of the Young Men's Christian Association Thanksgiving afternoon, in the presence of several thousand residents of the National Capital. Music was rendered by a choir of one hundred young men under the direction of Prof. J. T. Layton, director of music in the colored public schools. At the conclusion of the address of Mr. Roosevelt it was announced that the corner stone, which had been suspended by derrick ropes over its final resting place, would be lowered. The President walked to the northeast corner of the building and extended his hand to Levi Adams, a colored mason, who was holding the pail of mortar and directing the lowering of the stone. "I want to shake your hand," said the President, holding out his right hand. The colored workman hesitated a minute as he wiped the stone dirt from his fingers. Then followed the hearty handshake between the chief executive and the workman. "I always like to shake hands with "the man behind the gun," the man who is actually doing the work," the President remarked to those nearby. A minute later the President grasped the trowel, plunged it into the wet mortar and threw a trowelful on top the brick foundation wall under the overhanging white boulder. Then he smoothed it out flat. Richard C. Morse, general secretary of the International Y. M. C. A., who had come from New York to attend the ceremonies, followed the President's lead and others who helped to put on the mortar that is to hold the corner stone in place were Commissioner. H. B. F. MacFarland, William Knowles Cooper, general secretary of the Washington Y. M. C. A., J. E. Moorland, member of the international committee; E. J. Morton, chairman of the colored men's branch, and Lewis E. Johnson, secretary of the branch. A tin box containing a Bible, a copy of the President's speech, copies of the local newspapers containing the advance notices of the cornerstone laying, literature of the colored men's department of the association movement and a Y. M. C. A. button was placed inside the corner stone. Then it was lowered into its place under the direction of the colored workman. After seeing the huge stone set, President Roosevelt shook hands with the many prominent white and colored residents of the District who occupied seats on the platform and amid the applause of the thousands who had listened intently to his remarks jumped into his waiting carriage with Secretary Loeb and was driven back to the White House. Secretary Morse's Address. After the departure of the President Richard C. Morse, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., was introduced. "This building you are putting up here," he said, "has a tremendous significance. Not only in the District of Columbia; not only in the United States, but throughout the American Continent. "The Y. M. C. A. movement owes its extension to great leadership, and if the colored work is to progress it must have strong leadership. What you need to carry on this work in this new building, is strong leadership. "I saw the Y. M. C. A. when it had only one building; since then I have seen 500 buildings erected for its use. That first building was put in the right place. Your first great building, that of the colored men's department, is being erected in this city and I come from headquarters L. W. H. 100th of the Y. M. C. A. to bring you greetings and to tell you that you are helping young men in associations all over the world." Lewis E. Johnson, secretary of the branch which will occupy the new structure, spoke briefly, outlining the aims, hope and plans of the colored association and urging the support of the colored citizens in the project. A collection was taken among the crowd present for the benefit of the building fund and Commissioner Macfarland, in conclusion, announced that "the handsome man with the red book under his arm, Benjamin Washington," would receive subscriptions of e n s of e i c f t l e s h r e d t e d e n e and further contributions to the building fund. The collector was kept busy for some time after the formal conclusion of the ceremonies. Those on the Platform. Those who sat on the platform were Commissioners H. B. F. Macfarland and H. L. West, Richard C. Morse, Col. E. J. Halford, Hugh Thrift, Miles M. Shand, John B. Sleman, jr., Rev. Dr. S. H. Woodrow, Rev. Dr. George P. Wilson, J. E. Moorland, Dr. Merrill E. Gates, President W. P. Thirkield, William Morse, William Knowls Cooper, Myron J. Jones, W. T. Vernon, register of the Treasury; John T. Dancey, recorder of deeds; R. W. Tyler, auditor of the Navy Department; Robert H. Terrell, Dr. John Hurst, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church, Dr. B. F. Watson, W. Calvin Chase, Dr. W. B. Norman, the Rev. W. M. Clair, J. A. Cobb and R. W. Thompson. MR. NEWSON'S REJOINDER. Editor The Bee: Some men are so narrow and circumscribed; so dull in comprehension and illiberal in soul, that they cannot concede to any man the right to differ from them on a political or other question, without stigmatizing him as a fool, a lunatic or an enemy to his race. With such men, honorable difference of opinion on the part of another is an impossibility. Ever ready to impute a dishonest motive or purpose to others, they themselves are always right; and a thing happens to go their way of thinking, they, with a great show of superior wisdom and foresight, are quick to exclaim, "I told you so!" They are a "me, too" sort of a people, never originating anything themselves, but subsist upon the ideas of others. They are known only through th conjuring name of some distinguished sire and, were the world dependent upon their own great achievements for advancement, it would not know that they had ever lived. History makes no mention of their existence at all whatever. As a rule, such men have no strong, personal convictions or opinions of their own and, being weak, they always strive to go with the multitude; hence, they have a great fancy for the "band wagon." This reference is called forth by a se recent communication in "The Bee," re criticising those Negroes who essay- ed to support Mr. Bryan for the Presidency, as against Mr. Taft, in the recent presidential contest. It has never occurred to critics of this like that there was philosophy—real and far-sighted—in this Negro support of Bryan. They have never yet stopped to reflect upon the good already accomplished (though indirectly so) by this opposition to Mr. Taft and the Republican ticket. This benefit has been felt most immediately and directly by Negro federal office-holders and government clerks, in the appointments and promotions which followed as a result. But there is other good which has 八 been accomplished by it, not the least of which is the notice which has been served upon the Republican party (and all other parties, for that matter), in thunderous tones, that it cannot henceforth mistreat the Negro, and then count on his solid support on election day! The most common, but very natural mistake made during the recent presidential campaign, was the claim and belief that the Brownsville affair was the cause of the great Negro disaffection. It was simply the occasion, but not the cause. The cause lay in the increasing intelligence and manhood of the Negro, and the determination not to longer brook highhanded and barefaced discrimination from any quarter, without protest. The philosophy or reasoning which laid behind the conduct of these Negroes was the belief that the disfranchisement and other discriminatory laws of the South were enacted as a political expedient that they were directed against the Negro as a Republican asset, and that these laws would disappear, in part at least, as soon as the Negro began to show himself friendly to the Democratic party by occasionally voting its ticket. They further believed that purer government and more friendly legislation could be secured from both parties, by judiciously dividing the Negro vote, according to the merits of the issues involved. Such were the arguments and reasons that appealed to their judgments, and shaped their conduct. They believed then that they were right; they believe so now, and purpose to keep up the fight for a division of the Negro vote, not in the interest of the Republican party; but in the interest of the Negro himself. One of the finest buildings in the city is the old Capital Savings Bank building, 609 F street, northwest; which has been remodelled from bottom to top, and back and front. Every room has been renovated and repainted, which gives to the entire structure the appearance of a new building. It is known now as the National Beneficial Association. Attorneys L. M. J. King and Taylor have handsome suites of rooms on the first floor, front. Over this floor, which is the second floor, will be seen two large rooms in which Attorney W. L. Pollard is. He also has a side front con- sultation room beautifully painted, papered and well furnished. The back room is as large as the front office room. Mr. Pollard deals in civil law and real estate. He undoubtedly does a large real estate business. He employs two clerks and a manager. Attorney Pollard is congenial as weel as honest, with his clients, who are numerous. He recently purchased himself a fine horse and carriage and he now contemplates getting himself an automobile. Back of Attorney Pollard is Attorney Joseph H. Stewart, one of the most active and successful civil lawyers at the bar. At- Lewis H. H. torney Stewart has two large rooms in the rear, nicely furnished and newly papered and painted. In the third floor front rooms are Attorneys Hughes and Gray. The former is the bachelor of the firm. Both lawyers occupy three handsome rooms upon the third floor; nicely painted and papered. On each desk of this well known firm is attached extension telephone connections. The entire fourth floor is the National Benefit Association's; no doubt one of the most successful institutions in the United States. This floor is the busiest in the building. There are several very accomplished lady clerks; head clerk is Miss Robb, one of the best known and most accomplished in the business. The entire building has been reconstructed. The contractor is Mr. J. W. Bolden, one of the leading builders in this country. He is the man who erected the Jamestown Exposition building. The architect of this new structure is Mr. Sidney Pittman. THE GRAND COMMANDER K. T. ENTERTAINS. The Grand Commander of Knights Templar and the heads of the different departments in Masonry of D. C., were entertained at dinner on Thanksgiving Day, from 3 until 6 p.m., by the Rt.Em. Grand Commander W. G. Smith, at his beautiful residence 615 U street, N. W. After a brief exchange of greetings they repaired to the dining room. The table was abundantly supplied with all that goes to make up a Thanksgiving dinner, and with delicacies too numerous to mention. Those present were: Past Grand Commanders J. A. Gray, Sr., L. C. Bailey, J. C. Hickman, N. Robinson, W. H. J. Maloin, J. H. Levy; Grand Officers John P. Turner, P. H. Simmons, J. P. Davis, J. O. Bamfield, Brooks Burr, David Chase, H. C. Irving, Geo. W. Simms, N. E. Weatherless, W. F. Williams, of N. C., J. A. Richardson, Herbert Lancaster, D. I. Fenro, Richard Gates, A. J. Smith, H. P. Jackson, J. A. Budd, W. B. Dandridge and I. Thomas, Tasco. Ill. Potentate Letters of regret were a read from Grand Master W. H. Grimshaw, P. G. C. Jno. W. Freeman, C. D. Freeman and Jere Scott. Grand Royal Matron, Order of the Eastern Star, Hon. Lady Oceana f Brooks deserves great credit for the manner in which she conducted the visits to the several chapters of the Eastern Star, District of Columbia. The Grand Chapter was heartily welcomed, each rendering an interesting programme, followed by a luxurious collation. There was a great gathering of the Sir Knights and their wives and friends at the residence of Past Grand Commander Jno. W. Freeman, 1805 4th street, N. W. Thanksgiving evening at the presentation of a Jewel to Past Grand Commander J. H. Levy. THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM Sir Walter J. Abrams presented the Jewel touching on the sterling qualities embodied in the recipient. Speeches were made by P. G. C. Geo. S. Newman, P. G. C. Jon. W. Freeman, Grand Commander W.G. Smith, Grand Recorder J. O. Bamfield and D. G. C. Jno. P. Turner, after which a bountiful repast was served. Too much credit cannot be given Mrs. Mary Miller and Miss Estelle Freeman for their assiduous work in securing such a magnificent Jewel. Among those present were: P. G. C. W. H. Maloin, Sir Humphrey Jackson and wife, Sir J. T. Tascoe and wife, Saunders Miller and wife, Sir A. H. West and wife, Mrs. Blanche Moore, Hon. Lady Julia Harris, Hon. Lady Minnie Frazier, Sir Richard Gales and wife, Hon. Lady A. V. Thomas, Benjamin Strong and many others. SPECIAL SONG SERVICE AT ST. MARY'S P. E. CHURCH. A large and very distinguished audience listened to the rendition of a beautiful cantata by the choir of St. Mary's P. E. Chapel, 23rd street, between G and H streets, N. W., last Sunday evening. This choir of well trained voices, embracing boys, a number of young ladies, reinforced by an octette of competent natural voices, produced a marvelous and most pleasing effect at this service of song. The Misses Simmons, soprano, Wallace, contralto, and Mr. Henry Murray, tenor, did the solo work. Several members of the well known choir of old St. John's church assisted in rendering the music. Prof. Freeman, organist of old St. John's parish, presided at the organ. We noticed in the audience a large number of prominent colored citizens among whom were the Auditor for the Navy Department, (Mr. Tyler) and wife, Dr.J. R. Wilder and wife, Mrs. Lucy Moten, Mr. H. Carter,Jr., precentor of St. Luke's parish choir, Prof. Glenn, of the M. St. High School, Leon Turner and wife, Mr. Rutledge of New York City, Prof. Layton, director of music in the colored public schools, Justice R. M. Ferrel and wife, Dr. Jno. R. Francis and wife, Lemuel C. Harris and wife, Prof. Parker N. Bailey, Major Arthur Brooks, Mr. James Gray, a well known business man of the District who, with others, were well repaid for their visit. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS The Association of the Oldest Inhabitants will celebrate its forty-third anniversary next Monday evening with a dinner. Persons doing business along the river front have requested the Commissiones to have that section furnished with proper lights. Rev. Dr. John Van Schiack addressed the congregation of the Church of Our Father last Sunday morning on the "servant problem." Th numbers of accidents caused by automobiles are increasing, and in a few years will rival those caused by railroads. Director North, in his annual report says the cost of taking the next census will be $12,930,000, an increase of $410,000 over the year 1900. An increase of about ten per cent has been made in the salaries of the classified civilian employees of the Washington navy yard. The increase began the first of this month. Rumor says that the members of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church are planning to build a new edifice on some different street. The locality has not been decided upon as yet. The Philadelphia Tribune celebrated its 25th anniversary November 28, and we extend our congratulations to this northern "beacon light." Miss Georgia Sarvy, of this city, rendered some fine musical selections at the People's Lycum, Columbus, Ohio, a few Sundays ago. Mr. Samuel B. Connelly, of New York, was sworn in as public printer last Monday at the White House. He is the first and only public printer ever given the oath of office in the Executive Mansion. N. W. Barton, former assistant examiner in the Patent Office, admitted his guilt of forgery and was sentenced last Monday to three years in the penitentiary. The District Commissioners endorsed the action of President Roosevelt in appointing a commissioner to investigate the office of the Inspector of Buildings of the District of Columbia. The friends of Mrs. Leavitt, the daughter of Mrs. Wm. Jennings Bryan, say that everything points to a reconciliation between Mrs. Leavitt and her husband, who is expected to reach the United States very soon. A lively interest was taken in the meeting of Mrs. C. P. Wallace last night at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. William T. Belt, fire department chief, in his annual report just submitted, asks for fifty more men, and urges the importance of greater water pressure system. The loss by fire, the report shows, was $320,000. Mr. Richard Croker-celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday anniversary last week. Ex-Queen Lilioukalani is said to have reached her seventy-fifth birthday anniversary. The Supreme Court rendered a decision against the Virginia railroads and upholds the State Corporation Commission, fixing a passenger rate of two cents a mile on "intra-state business." The opportunity now presents itself to the colored American artists to win renown. The competition is now open for a statue or some sculptural feature of Columbus, to be placed in front of the new Union Station. Congress has appropriated $100,000 for the purpose. The suburban railroads no longer give special rates to school children, the Interstate Commission ruling that such rate is "discriminatory." The case of the Standard Oil Company will have a hearing after the Christmas holidays. The annual collection for the Catholic University of America was taken up last Sunday in the Catholic churches of this city. The funeral of Prof. Lucien Eu- (Continued to page 4.) Nellie's Cottage Home. Words by WILLIAM H. UEERS. To E. M. C. Music by DAVID WALLACE. 1. Far beyond the shining waves that 2. Memories of a happy time and 3. To dream the old dreams once again and kiss that distant shore, land that's lost to me, see her fancy free, Hallow'd by the glory of the days that are no more, The violets and the panies and the dreamings by the sea, The love-light in her bonnie eyes, her kisses all for me, love to picture in my dreams, as far away I roam, That memory brance butter sweet like this I'll find wher e'er I roam, tender little garden spot, my Nellie's cot-tage home. roses and the sweet per-fume of Nellie's cot-tage home. memory's all that's left to me of Nellie's cot-tage home. American Melody Co., N. Y. Copyright twice as much as any other coat. On fair days because it is smart, other days because rain-proof. Kenreign coats, guaranteed rain-proof, give this double service and hold their shape as long as worn. Modern concrete factory structures and modulate machinery are civic ones of the adjusted system that is essential to the production of these garments. W.B. 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 medes, which are made in such a variety as to guarantee perfect fit From $1.00 to $3.00 per WEINGARTEN BROS., Mfrs. 377-379 Ask any dealer anywhere to show you the new W. B. "hip-subduing" 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 K 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 wearer absolute freedom of movement. set n or large support- $3.00. e same as e batite, 20 to 36. or large pt that the of whites 20 to 36. e same as ate. Hoeo e $3.00. A YOUNG LION SLAYER. Boer Farmer Boys Make Good Shots On the African Veldt. Three lions were killed near Pietersburg. Transvaal by the nlneteen-year-old son of Jozef Erasmus, a Boer farmer. It appears that young Erasmus was on his way to the Messina mine and had outspanned his donkey team, when his kamir Roy came running to tell him that three lions were tackling the donkeys. Erasmus seized his gun and ran hard in the direction indicated. On his arrival at the spot he found the lions lying around one of the donkeys. He fired and killed a big lioness. The other two jumped up but he was ready and shot another (younger) lioness. The young lion which was left ran behind some brushwood. Erasmus first collected his donkeys and brought them into safety and then once more carefully approached the scene of the fight. In order to find out if the two lionesses were dead he fired another shot at one of them. This disturbed the surviving lion who thereupon came forth roaring. Erasmus was again ready and shot him dead on the spot. Asked by the Volkesstem correspondent whether he was alone at the time; Erasmus replied; "Oh, no, Oom,' I had my little Kamir boy, with me.'—The skins were sold in Pietersburg.-Pretoria Volksstem. Poisonons Brazilian Vipers. Much is made of the lance-head viper, "the most deadly of all know reptiles," brought from Brazil to New York for the purpose of an operation which will give a serum that is practically extinct. There are several singularly interesting snakes in Brazil. The suru cueu is supposed to cause death in six hours. It is sometimes found nine feet long. Its skin is a dirty tawny yellow, with dark brown lozenges on the back. It is said to be attracted by fire but seldom to injure travellers. The fiercest of the lance-headed vipers is the Jararoca, and it, also, it a dirty yellow, but it is brown-black about the tail.—Boston Herald. Birds, Fruit, Dead Leaves. The Moki Indian women of Arizona have an ingenuious and romantic form of coifure. When young these women coll their tresses at the sides of their heads, so as to represent the buds of a native plant. This signifies that they themselves are in the flush of youth and of marriageable age. When they are married their hair is arranged to represent the fruit of the plant; while in old age their jocks hang straggling down their hacks, typical of the withered stalk of the dead or dying plant. Gen-tic Nel-lic, fond heart Nel-lic, Nel-lic always true. With eyes as blue as the heart of June, and hair of golden hue. I'll never find a love like Nel-lic's, no matter where I roam. There is no spot on earth so dear as Nel-lic's cot-tage home. Brides Older Than Bridegroomes. The vital statistics prepared by City Clerk Entwisle of Salem.shows that during 1907 there were 479 marriage licenses issued and 306 solemnized in the city, which is 18 fewer than the previous year. The oldest bridegroom was 68 and the oldest bride 50, while the youngest bridegroom was 16 and the youngest bride 15. Seventy-one brides were older than the bridegrooms.—Boston Transcript. Vegetable Milk. "Vegetable milk" is used in Japan. it is made from the soja bean. The liquid is exactly like cow's milk in appearance, and in taste can hardly be distinguished from it. To make it the beans are first soaked and then boiled in water. Some sugar and phosphate potassium are added, and it is boiled down till it has the consistency of condensed milk. Valuable Relics. At an auction sale at Christie's in London of the late Marchloness of Conyngham's art collection a silver ewer and dish, weighing together 90 ounces, a gift of George IV to an ancestor of the Marchloness, sold for $21,000. A Venerable Turtle. A Massachusetts boy, Nathan Sampson, has found a venerable turtle which bears markings made by his grandfather, now 81 years old, which were put on in 1840, and by his great-grandfather, who marked the same turtle in 1816. Slightly Xed. The story is now going the rounds of the country papers about a man who visited the paying-teller's window in a bank and asked for one of the new coins, with "God Bless Our Home" left off. A Healthful Occupation. Bull fighters receive $417 per hour, and the occupation is so healthful that unless killed by accident its followers invariably reach a green old age. Newspapers in Persia Persian newspapers are reproduced from handwriting by lithography, no types being used. Viennas Beggars. 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The Yicim shows the bill to a bank cash- fer, and hears it pronounced good, and his mercenary nature being aroused, he sees visions of gigantic wealth, and hands over to Mr. Sharp- er $500, or at least $250, for the Instrument that fs going to make him a Rockefeller. It 1s needless to say that the subsequent specimens turn- ed out are such miserable imitatians that they would hardly fool a blind man, but the ignoramus fs In a place where he can't make a roar for his Jost money. = —_—_——_—_. ‘The Swaying Skyscraper. Through the chance of perfect ad- Sustment in the way of balance, of & row of large photographs that hang on a wall o. an office building down: town the clerks In the place tave a good deal of quiet amusement with persons who visit the place for the first time. Owing to this bal- ance the pictures are easily sway- ed by the wind that blows through the open windows and since the of- fice force goes in for fresh air the year round the pictures are never stil. The Joke Iles In catching the Lorrified expression on the faces of the callers when they get a sight of the awinging frames. Then It Is al- ways explained with due solemnity, if the boss !s not around that the sway- ing of the frames {s due to the oscil- lation of the structure. It usually takes some time for the obfect of the Joke to see the point. Meanwhile bs bas suffered ~ considerable shock.— N.Y. World. Odd South Amerteam Animals. Many curtegg animals haunt the marshy parts «Ss ath America nortn of the pampas. Frogs ig and fero- cous, given to making vicious springs when closely approached; the @apybara, a cavy “contented with the bulk of a sheep”; the huge-coypu rat and the swarthy piglike tapir are frequently seen. Along the forest margins troops of peccaries are often met with, occasionally the jaguar sometimes the puma, Iikewise that toothless curiosity, the great ant bear, long in claw, long noged and remarkably loug tonzued. A famil- Jar object is the great Jabiru, a stork with a preference for the desolate Ingoons, where it may often be ob- served ptatuesque on one leg and ‘wrapped in prospection.—Scotsman. The Gingko Tree. Btudies by Miss M. C. Stopes of the fossil flora of Scotland h:ve shown that the gingku or maidenhalr, tree, @ native of Japan and China, which fe cultivated {n Europe and this coun- try on account af Its remarkable fol- tage, belongs to an extremely anc- fent family, of whic. It Is now, ap- parently, the last surviving repre- sentative. At one time it seems to have been widely spread. A singu- lar fact is that the rossil specimens of the gingko, found in the rock beds of the Inferlor Oolite series, at Bro- ra, Scotland, are so similar to the living trees that ct first sight no dif- ference is apparent. Only an er- amination of the atrucure of the cells reveals a variation.—yYouth's Companion. For Pressing Plaiter Skirts. Plaited Skirts which have been washed are dificult to press. Time and expense may Se seved by hsving the work done after the following method, which Is fo. woolen skirts epecially: Before the skir has be- come badly creased or rumpled run & basting thread, using short, even stitches, down whe entire ength of gach crease whict marks the folds of the plaits. By this means, after the skirt has been washed, the pro- per location of each lest can read- ily be determined, and the pressing done sucéastully, Balzac In Charch Pew. The woman who bad left a vol- ume of Balzac In the church pew on prayer meeting night felt a little. bit ashamed when she asked for the Book, but the sexton assured her she need not feel that way. “Many things are left In the church,” he said, “and some of them are a whole ‘lot less respectable than Balzac, Af- ter each service the pews yield a strange grist of forgotten or dls- carded articles.” A Clever Bear. A noted ethnologist observed in Vienna a bear deliberately making with bis paw, @ current.In some wa- ter which was close to the bars of his cage 80-28 to draw a piece of flost- ing bread within his reach. These actions of the bear could hardly be attributed to instinct or Inherited habit, as they would be of little use to an animal in a state of nature. % Qaill Teothpicks. The largest quill toothpick fac- tery in the world Is near Paris, where there 1s an annual product of 20,- 000,000 quills, The factory was started to make quill pens, but when these went out of general use It was eonverted into a toothnick mill. KINK:INE A Beautiful Hair Dressing and ' - Tonic forthe Hair! |, iS ea : yo eT SEO, ee Read what Madam Robinson, the Pamous Black Patti; Queen of the Opera, says of Kink-ine . PROP. 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Editor Bee:— Find poclosed two dollars, Send to my addtcss below The Bee and M-Call's Fasbloe Magatine for ose year. ee ‘* Town of City...-ccccevcesenecsecesees ME-LANGE | pp " . “OY VRS BEFORE SIx AFTER . USING. MONTHS USING, Never fails; nothing like it for hair that is not naturally straight. Price, 25 and so cents a box. For sale by the following druggists: Board & McGuire, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth street northwest; Julius Mayer, Fourth and N streets northwest; L. H. Harris, Third and F streets southwest; A. F. Pride. Twenty-eightth and P streets, Georgetown, D. C. pH EM peta FRANK E. WHITE M'FG. CO., Box 107, ¢ East’ Orange,’ N. J. Goods mailed on receipt of price. = 4 a ae rs] | omy ig \ es a) Prt y 7 < ; ae ee ee | iw : 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 Majaria and such miasmatic diseases, Thousands have used it with mest gratifying results. Malaria is prevalent now. De not walt for it te take hold of you. Begin the use of Babek now. S0e Bottles. Your druggist will tell you that Babek is the best thing he selis e e 5 for ; R 7* MALARIA. CHILLS % FEVE If you are unable to secure Bab in your vicinity write to Kloczew : . Street, Washington, D. C . : Lo oy ie BUY THE B a aE ad rer is Cis er om <td 5 Cian bens e; FESR Bad Sera Be \ ee Eee EN Ret ete eras Cnet AP IAL TNE. Before You Purchase any Other Write THE NeW HOME SEWiHS MACHINE GOMPANY ORANGE, MASS. Mary Sewing Machines ere madeto sell regaré ‘<3 of quality, butthe “ New Heme’ os made woer, Our guaranty newr rons out. ‘We make Sewing Machines to suit all condition: othetrade. The “New Home” stands atthe bead of all High-grade family sewing machices ‘Sela by authorised doalersenly. TOR SALE OF — WORTH ADVERTISING FOR There are 5,499 Neornes 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 Ts this amount of money worth bidding for? It certainly is, and not even the largest stores in thiscity would refuse to get the big end of it did they but realize how much money the Negroes are real. ly spending. : . : Now The Bee is the only Negro publication in this city. It stands without a rival or competitor, antcovers the field like a blanket. If a few of the merchants in this city will patronize the advertising col- umns 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 collars — will assume that by pat- ronizing 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 thre milions of dollars received and spent by the Negroes of Washington. | What clothing stores. what fumiture stores, what dry goods stores and what other fines 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 apprecia- tive 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. e e - J H.Winslow | UNDERTAKER AND PRACTICAL EMBALMEK. ALL WORK FIRST CLASS, -TERMS MOST REASONABLE. TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. h Se -_ ————_—_—_, — A DRAL JDIREULOR, é Hiring, Levery and Sale Stable. . 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L * PENSIVE SHOES AND GOOD PI Ez SOLID VALUE ARE FOUND rel IN OUR 2 | M4 SIGNET SHOE . oI because of exceptional : | stowed on ‘, making. The only chase: lim ness In it anywhere Is the price.‘ LI I A Coodyear-welted shoe, mada on seve~ | | ral of the season’s handsomeet lasts, im PiLd| Looks tere ner r qi we 5 a every timc : = tet ey LH 7 it’s worth vour wnlle uw fa and look * 4 aan over, even I y._ re net ready c Always welcome.’ = -Wm.Moreland, hs , 49g! OLDSTAMD. UGYOPTHERIGROOY - THE BEE PUBLISHER 1109 Eye St. N W. Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class rail matter. ESTABLISHED 188a TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance.....$2.00 Six months .....1.00 Three months .....50 Subscription monthly .....20 THE BEE FOR 1909. The year of 1909 will find The Bee the leading national organ in this country. Hundreds of newspaper enterprises have been established in this city only to find untimely graves. This city contains a number of peculiar people. Many of them don't appreciate a first class newspaper edited by colored Americans. The Bee has had its ups and downs; notwithstanding it has withstood every storm and the oppression of its enemies. It congratulates itself because it has been battling alone for existence and combatted those it has endeavored to help. It has never failed to defend the weak and uphold the fallen Negro. No paper that has an opinion of its own is without its enemies. Notwithstanding, its friends have supported it to such an extent until it is now the master of the situation. The Bee contains many of the leading firms in the city,which is an evidence of its high estimate among the people of Washington. The Bee doesn't look for help or assistance from those who don't read, or from those who have never appreciated the value of a newspaper. There are many in the city who don't appreciate a newspaper that is managed by colored Americans. Many look for scandals and upon them satisfy thirst and appetites. On the school question The Bee has taken the side of helpless and oppressed teachers. It shall always be found on the side of right against foes and friends. If there are any public servants who are entitled to support and encouragement, they are the teachers of our youth, who have been misrepresented and many of them badly treated. The Bee for 1909 will thus be found defending the week against the oppressor. Its aim and object shall be to advance and promote a race which is oppressed. If at any time it should injure you, the Editor is not too proud to correct the wrong. Its columns are open for any honest expression of opinion, but the writer must sign his name as a guarantee of good faith. Any one that is too cowardly to sign his name, is a coward and an assassin. The Editor invites contributions. Our society columns are open to everyone and the Editor will be pleased at all times to receive any social matter for publication at any time. It has a staff of reporters who will be pleased to call at any time to report any social or public function free of cost. If you want a fearless and independent journal to come to your homes, now is the time to subscribe. We want ten thousand subscribers for the year of 1909. Send in your name for 3, 6 or 12 months, now. Don't delay! DOING SOMETHING. When a Church does something for the uplift of humanity, then it is doing something. Constant preaching and appeals to Christians for more or higher salary for the preacher are not Christian precepts. The Church that throws away selfishness and does something to establish real religion is the Church that is entitled to the support of Christians. What a beautiful example the 19th Street Baptist Church has set. Read the report, in another column, of The Bee, of the Anniversary of the Dispensary and the banquet to its physicians. Just see what this great church has done for humanity, from November 27, 1907, to November 27, 1908. Is there another Church in this city, pastored by a colored American, that makes a similar showing? Those who failed to honor the physicians at the 19th Street Baptist Church last week, with their presence, missed one of the greatest events that has ever taken place in the history of this city. It was an occasion that should appeal to the sympathy and support of the ninety thousand colored people. Dr-Brooks made a suggestion that should cause the colored members of the bar to blush. He suggested the propriety of the legal members of the Church to organize for self protection. Dr. Brooks suggests a plan that colored lawyers, themselves, have failed to embrace. It is the purpose of the physicians connected with this dispensary to establish a hospital. Is this not commendable? What greater monument can be erected to perpetuate the memory of the 19th Street Baptist Church? The colored citizens have made efforts to do something for a number of years and The Bee is confident that a more worthy enterprise could not be established than a colored hospital in connection with this dispensary. ROOSEVELT IS SQUARE. The colored Y. M. C. A., the people of Washington, and the race throughout the country, was honored in having President Roosevelt deliver the address at the laying of the corner stone for the new $100,000 colored Y. M. C. A. building here, on Thanksgiving Day. It will go down in history as a memorable occasion, and as one calculated to inspire the race to greater exertion and the whites to greater respect for the race. As the President well said, a colored man cannot build and beautify without earning the respect of his white neighbors. President Roosevelt's address was an honest, open, frank tribute to this race of ours. Always earnest and sincere, he seemed more earnest and sincere than ever before. He again made it plain that he is for "all men up," and that race or color has no influencing bearing upon his dealing with men. He made it plain that a man's color should not have, and does not have, with him, any consideration whatever. The President's address must necessarily inspire the colored people of Washington to a determination to contribute quickly sufficient funds to complete the Y. M. C. A. building, and inspire the race, everywhere, to a determination to be the best possible citizens., We thank the President for his able and his very helpful address. The people of Washington and the race throughout the country thank him. That address furnished added evidence that President Roosevelt is square on the race problem. CITIZENS' WELCOME. Just as The Bee predicted, there is a great deal of dissatisfaction sprung up against the "Inaugural Welcome Club." This Club has dubbed itself as the "Permanent Inaugural Welcome Club," and when it met it resolved itself into a permanent organization. Just where the consistency is, The Bee is unable to state. If the citizens desire to welcome the strangers to the city during the inaugural week. The Bee would suggest that Mr. John F. Cook, Aaron Russell, Jerome A. Johnson, J. F. N. Willkinson, Dr. Walter H. Brooks, Rev. Norman, Rev. Grimke, Major C. A. Fleetwood and others of high standing organize themselves into a citizens committee and invite such other citizens to meet them and perfect arrangements for the entertainment of strangers or visitors who may visit the city during the week of the inauguration. The Mu-So-Litt Club, which is a cosmopolitan social aggregation, is arranging for a reception also. This is all well enough; the reception by this club will not in the least interfere with anything that will be given by the citizens of Washington. Miss Maggie L. Walker; secretary of the St. Luke's organization, is entitled to the life election as President of the order of St. Lukes. It is, in fact, a woman's organization and the women should control it. Not-even is Miss Walker without conspirators against her. However, she is a woman of courage and push and is bound to win. The Bee cannot see the necessity of a St. Luke's Bank in this city, when there is one in Richmond that is conducted so successfully. Some kind of an enterprise under the supervision of St. Luke's would no doubt be encouraged. The Bee extends its congratulations to Mr.Rutherford and Dr. Brown, of the National Benefit Association. They deserve credit for the monument they have erected to the colored people of this city. THE LEWIS CASE. Superintendent Stewart has called for the alleged marking in the Lewis case, by which his school was marked deficient in all studies. It now looks that a few changes in the offices of two supervising principals will be made in a few days. Superintendent Stewart will not stand for spite work and if the facts, as The Bee published a few weeks ago are established, there will be a few vacancies in the schools. Just why Prof. Lewis should be marked deficient someone will have to explain. There is too much of this spite work in our schools and too many teachers have been reduced without apparent cause. WHY INAUGURAL BALL? The "big ones" are ducking the colored inaugural ball arrangements. That's right. It's an affair for the citizens of Washington. But why call it an inaugural ball? As "a rose might smell as sweet by some other name," so this proposed function might be as delightfully charming if simply styled a reception. Let the citizens of Washington act, and act together. They can manage it without help or hindrance from outsiders. THE INDEPENDENT The National Independent political League will be reorganized some time this month. The object of the League is to perpetuate its power in politics. There is to be a banquet of the workers or those who led the fight against Judge Taft. The Negro is to demand better treatment at the hands of the Republican party; so say the leaders of the League. PROF. KELLY MILLER. Prof. Kelly Miller, the new dean of the College department of Howard University is making good. The College department of Howard University never was in a better condition than it is now. OUR SPECIAL A special holiday edition of The Bee will be issued on or about December 15th. Those who desire to take advantage of this special edition should send a card and have our advertising representative to call and give them an estimate. Some of the special features of the special will be social, political, religious, etc. RECEPTION TO DOCTORS. First Anniversary of Free Dispensary. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of the 19th Street Baptist Church and one of the most eloquent orators in the United States, is ahead of all church denominations of any religion, in this city. The Church of which he is the pastor, one year ago, November 27th. 1907, established a Free Dispensary in connection with his church. The subject had been discussed by two medical men connected with the church, as will be seen by the report of the secretary, and which was quickly carried into operation, 19th Street Baptist Church has always been progressive in its ideas. A very few months ago, this church introduced individual communion service which no other colored church in the city has. Connected with the Dispensary are some of the leading physicians and druggists in the city. The most prominent is Dr. Morse, who conducts one of the largest up-to-date drug stores in the city. The first anniversary of the establishment of the dispensary took place Friday evening, November 27th, in the main auditorium of the church. The audience was composed of many leading citizens of the city. Dr. J. T. Walker, under whose auspices the choir is managed, rendered some excellent music. The singing of Prof. J. T. Layton, Misses Lottie Wallace, Rosa Childs, was enthusiastically applauded. Miss Johnson has a very sweet voice and she sings with such ease and grace. Prof. Layton carried the house by storm. Miss Rosa Childs is the daughter of Dr. Childs, and her sweet disposition adds greatly to her singing Miss Wallace has a sweet voice and her style is very fascinating. Dr. S. A. Ward made a good impression in the rendition of his vocal solo. The instrumental solos by Miss Mary Europe, were artistically rendered. She was loudly applauded and was forced to repeat. The Board of Deacons was represented by Mr. Lawrence Clark, and the Board of Trustees by Attorney Wm. I. Lee. Both addresses were good, especially was that of Attorney Lee. Attorney and Editor, W. Calvin Chase was introduced by the distinguished president of the association, Dr. Charles H. Marshall, and made a brief address, congratulating the church for its advanced step and the doctors for rendering free services. The president of the dispensary is Dr. Charles H. Marshall,no doubt one of the best known physicians in this city and a man of the highest reputation.. He is respected for his honesty and industry. He is the treasurer of several benevolent organizations. The following is the program: Organ Voulntary, Mrs. L. Ware; Hark! Hark! My Soul, 19th Street Baptist Church Choir; Invocation; Solo, Selected, Dr. S. A. Ward; Remarks, Rev. W. H., Brooks, D.D., Solo, Selected, Miss Rosa Childs; Report, Sec'y Dispensary, Dr. J. T.Walker; Instrumental Solo, Miss Mary Europe; Board of Deacons, Mr. Lawrence Clark; Solo, Selected, Miss Lottie Wallace; Address, Treasurer Dispensary, Dr. C. W. Childs; Solo, Selected, Miss Lola Johnson; Board of Trustees, Mr. Wm. I. Lee; Solo, Selected, Prof. J. T. Layton; Sanctus, 19th Street Baptist Choir; Banquet to Staff, 19th Street Baptist Church. At the conclusion of the program, President Marshall, the medical staff, and their wives and daughters and those who took part in the exercises repaired to the lecture room below, where a reception and banquet was tendered them. The report of Dr. I. T. Walker is as follows: Dr. Walker's Report. At the request of Dr. Charles H. 100 Marshall, and James T. Walker, a few physicians met in the lecture room of this church, September, 1907, and discussed the organization of a Dispensary Clinic, to be established in this section, for the poor of the city: Upon an appeal to the 19th-St. Baptist Church, the church authorized the work and appropriated he necessary amount to equip the same. Accordingly the Dispensary was opened Novemebr 5, 1907.. with the following constituting the Staff: Charles H. Marshall, M.D., President; James T. Walker, M.D., Secretary; Charles A. Sewall, M.D., Treasurer; George W. Cabaniss, M.D.; Creed W. Childs, M.D.; J. Francis Johnson, M.D.; A. W. Tancil, M.D.; James C. Dowling, M.D.; Wm. C. Jones M. D.; J. Hayden Johnson, M.D. A public meeting to announce the opening date was held October, 1907, when speeches were made by Rv. Dr. J. Milton Waldron, Mrs. J. M. Layton, Dr. C. W. Childs, Rev. W. J. Howard, Dr. Chas. H. Marshall, Rev. Dr. W. H. Brooks, and Dr. George W. Cabaniss, splendidly presenting the benefits to accrue to the poor from this charitable undertaking. A pleasing program was rendered by the choir of this church at these exercises. Royal Mundy, M.D.; E. R. Beckley, M.D.; Lee Gill, M.D.; Clarence Wright, M.D. Dentists. A J. Gwathney, W. Samuel Naylor. Pharmacists. Daniel Smith, John W. Morse. Nurses. Q. V. P. Scipio, Ellen Douglas, Marion Carter. Miss Hankins, Mrs. W. G. Holmes. Contributions to the Medical Armamentarium amounting to forty (40) boxes have been received from various sections of the country, also donations of chairs, towels etc., have come from many individuals, who are in sympathy with this charity. The number of persons treated for the year and divided according to their religious faith follows: Whole number for year, 1,244. Males, 441; Females, 803. Baptists, 6337; Methodists, 160; Catholics, 64; Episcopalians, 30; Congregationalists, 11; Presbyterians, 3; No Church, 339. There is urgent need for the establishing of a Ladies Auxiliary to aid in the prosecution of this work, and the Staff recommends that one be formed at the earliest possible moment. All obligations of the Dispensary have been met-to date;the outlook for continued success is encouraging. For the Staff: Jas. T. Walker, M.D. Sec'y. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS. (Continued from page 1.) gene Colliere, of the French department of Central High School, took place last Monday afternoon. Mr. Cyrus Field Adams, of all the colored men drawing large government salaries, was the only one who contributed $50, the smallest amount allowed on the published list of contributors to he Republican campaign fund. Judge Harlan visited his alma mater, Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., last week, the first time since having become justice of the Supreme Court. The Texas Guide, whose home was UNDERTAKERS IN THE CITY. ONE OF WASHINGTON'S LEADING UNDERTAKERS. destroyed by fire last month, was launched again last week on its journalistic voyage and Editor Baughman is to be congratulated. Mr. John T. Phines, one of Washington's leading undertakers and one of the best embalmers in the city—was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and was graduated from Fisk University. Having decided to adopt a business profession, he went to Chicago, where he entered Barnes College of Embalming; graduating from that institution with high honors. With such a reputation as a new Embalmer, and knowing his business well, he soon found employment with C. Johnson, one of the leading undertakers of Chicago. After remaining with Mr. Johnson for some time he decided to strike out for himself. After looking over several cities with a view of going into business he finally concluded that Washington was a good field for a man that knew his business. So, two years ago he came to the National Capital where he opened business at 600 Second street, S. W., where he has carried on a successful business ever since. His business is first class in every particular, and has called forth praises from the public generally. He enjoys the patronage of some of the leading citizens in th city. Mr. Rhines is a genial, affable and courteous gentleman, and is always reasonable in his charges—his carriages are new and up-to-date. He is prominent in many fraternal circles. Among the orders that he is connected with are the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, the Elks, Sons of Moses, St. Luke's, Maccabees and the Chaldeans and several others. He is a member of Zion Baptist Church and a prominent worker in the Sunday School and is always ready to help the needy. He stands well with all classes of citizens and is rated as one of-Washington's popular Undertakers. In the campaign that has just ended, the National Republican Committee employed quite a number of colored orators. It now turns out that these spellbinders expect an office. Some of them have already managed to apply for the office of recorder of deeds. This office seems to be an eyesore to many of the spellbinders. Another local politician who is a messenger in one of the departments, declares that he knows it all; that a certain Northern politician will have the naming of all northern appointments. Another individual declared a few days ago that he will see that two colored lawyers will be placed in the United States District Attorney's office. There is no end to what many of the local orators want. No applicant has applied so far for the registership or auditor for the Navy Department. It is claimed that it would be useless: The Bee is of the same opinion. Quite likely President Roosevelt will appoint another justice of the pearce if a vacancy occurs before he retires from office. When visiting New York City, stop at the Hotel Maceo, 213 West 53rd. Street. corner Broadway. Steam heated. Telephone. 803 Columbus. TUSKLESS ELEPHANT. Ceylon the Only Part of the World Where They Exist. What a sight for a Ceylon elephant hunter would be the first view of a herd of African elephants—all tuskers! It is a singular thing that Ceylon is the only part of the world where the male elephants have no tusks; they have miserable little grubbies projecting two or three inches from the upper jaw and inclining downward. Nothing produces either ivory or horn in fine specimens throughout Ceylon. Although some of the buffaloes have tolerably fine heads, they will not bear a comparison with those of other countries. The horns of the native cattle are not above four inches in length. The elk and the spotted deers outlers are small compared with deer of their size in India. This is more singular, as it is evident from the geological formation that at some remote period Ceylon was not an island, but formed a portion of the main land. It is thought there must be elements wanting in the Ceylon pasturage for the formation of ivory.—Ceylon Manual. Smokeless Coal. A London inventor claims to have discovered a process for producing smokeless coal, apparently by distillation of coal at a low temperature. This, after distillation, is said to deposit a very brilliant substance, the heating properties of which are far greater than those of the original coal, and which is absolutely free from smoke and dirt. The inventor contends that efforts to overcome the smoke plague have hitherto been unsuccessful because they have been made in the wrong direction, and that by the extraction of the smoke-producing material in coal before being burned, he has been successful in producing a smokeless coal. Electrocuting Animals. The slaughter of animals for tood by electrocution is being experimented by Dr. Leduc, a French scientist, who has been conducting his investigations in the French abbattoirs. He has been using the intermittent low tension currents and says that he is satisfied that the system is painless, the central functions of perception being first destroyed and then those of circulation and respiration, so that there is neither suffering nor reaction in the animals thus killee. The doctor is endeavoring to devise some piece of apparatus by which the killing of cattle may be accomplished by electricity with economy and celerity. The Shy Man. Women show no mercy to the shy man, for he stands outside of the compass of convention. Could he break out all might be saved; the man might be permanently cured. But he cannot. He has been brought up to respect convention. His muscles may be of steel, his heart of fire, but in his soul the spirit of diffidence holds him in a vice. In a drawing room he stands gaping, quaking, a prey to introspective torment—he who would perhaps storm a rampart with a triumphant smile on his lips.—London Observer. - Hanging Pictures Dangerous. "Railroad casualties receive such wide publicity," said an insurance man, "that there is a common belief on the part of the public that one is more liable to accidents while travelling than when living the simple life in the confines of his home. "As a matter of cold fact, statistics show that accident insurance companies pay more money to people who get hurt hanging pictures or taking stoves apart than they do to the victims of head-on collisions. It sounds strange, but it's the truth." —Kansas City Journal. Three Men to Move Book. There lies in the British Museum the largest book yet printed, a colossal atlas of engraved ancient Dutch maps. It takes three men to move it from the giant book case in which it is stored in the library of the museum. It is bound in leather, magnificently decorated, and is fastened with clasps of solid silver, richly gilt. It is nearly seven feet high and weighs 800 pounds and was presented to King Charles II. before he left Holland in the year 1660. Valuable East African Forest. The Colonial Office recently sent out an expert to report on the Kenya forest, in the East Africa protectorate. He finds the forest extends 187 miles long by eight miles broad, and comprises 1,000,000 acres of timber. Taking the average value of the 2½ d. per cubic foot, this works out to £23 per acre, or a total value-for the whole forest of £23,000,000.—London Tit-Bits. Dead Historians. I for-my part believe in the dead historians. I glory in the possession of some hundreds of volumes by them. A great deal of cant is talked and written on this subject. There is an idea in some minds that a book on history to be good must be new. In nine cases cut of ten the new book is a common-place re-statement of facts that were better presented by an older writer.—The Sphere. A Man and a Woman. A man's idea of being stylishly dressed is to wear something in which he looks atrociously bad; a woman's to wear something no other woman can duplicate. The Clever Little Weasel and His Means of Defense. Take another of our animals, a fierce little weasel, clad in summer in a coat of brown, in winter turning white, but always with a jet black tip to the tail. The ermine, as it is incorrectly called in its winter coat, has an easy time of it, sneaking upon the mice and birds upon which it preys, but when a hawk takes after it in an open field in the sunlight or an owl in the moonlight, it would have but short shrift with all its sinuous leaping, were it not that the black tail tip is so conspicuous that it constantly attracts the eye and allows the pure white of the body to be confused with the snow. Even when we place a dead weasel on the snow and look at it from a distance, we realize how true this is, and how valuable must be the pencil tufts of black hairs to this little vermin who spends his life in hunting or being hunted.—The Outing Magazine. Everyone of Them a Bird. A current newspaper item is as follows: "The wife of a Methodist minister in West Virginia, has been married three times. Her malden name was Partridge; her first husband was named Robin; her second husband, Sparrow; and the present one's name is Quayle. There are now two young Robins, one Sparrow, and three little Quayles in the family. One grandfather was a Swan, and another was a Jay; but he's dead and now a bird of Paradise. "They live on Hawk-ave., Eagleville, Canary Islands, and the fellow who wrote this article is a lyre bird and an interesting relative of the family." Arctic Dog Life. Nowhere in the world has the dog such unrestricted right of way as in our most northerly possession—Alaska. In winter, when the more than 60,000 square miles of territory are sealed up in solid ice, dogs are almost the sole means of getting from place to place—in fact, they seem necessary to life itself. The aristocrats of Arctic dog life are the mall teams in the service of the United States Government. They are to-day a superior breed to the dogs employed some half dozen years ago before great gold discoveries demanded increased mall service.—St. Nicholas. Names that Don't Name. Many chemical names convey no exact idea of the things they stand for. Oil of vitriol is no oil, neither are oils of turpentine and kerosene. Copperas is an iron compound and contains no copper. Salts of lemon is the extremely poisonous oxalic acid. Carbolic acid is not an acid but an alcohol. Cobalt contains none of that metal but arsenic. Soda water has no trace of soda, and sugar of lead has no sugar; cream of tartar has nothing of cream, nor milk of lime any milk. German silver has no silver and blacklead no lead. Dogs around Blacksmith Shops. Two or three dogs are nearly always to be found loafing about every blacksmith shop. This fact is so well recognized that detectives when sent out after valuable dogs that have been lost invariably visit first all the blacksmith shops in the neighborhood. The reason why dogs visit the blacksmith shops is that they love inordinately the odor and the taste of burning hoofs. They sniff the odor as a woman sniffs a rose, and they eat the hoof parings as a gourmet eats truffles.—Minneapolis Journal. Supply of Gold. It is mainly from Africa, America and Australia that the world draws its supply of gold, some $400,-000,000 worth won regularly every year. Africa leads with about $150,-000,000; next comes the United States with about $95,000,000; Australia ranks third with some $85,-000,000, while Russia, both in Europe and Asia, Mexico, Canada and several other countries, make up the remainder. A Long Sleep. An astonishing trance case has come to light in Berlin. A clerk, aged 45—a healthy normal man—suddenly fell asleep in June 1904. All efforts to awaken him were unsuccessful and the sleeper since then has never opened his eyes. He breathes regularly and awallows his food mechanically, but is insensible to the severest attempts to arouse him. Lace Curtains. Lace snow curtains should always be soaked for an hour in cold water to which a little borax has been added, before being put into warm suds. This gee' out the smoky smell that is sometimes so noticeable in curtains that have have been used in a city. Life in Germany. Every one who has travelled in Germany is familiar with the word "verboten"—forbiddent. He finds it is verboten to almost everything which he thinks he has been accustomed to do in the United States. Chicago Standard. A Valuable Belle. A thirteenth century copper and alt cliborium, supposed to have come from Malmesbury abbey, was sold by auction in London for $30,000. . . ANTIQUITY OF GLASS. Though the art of making glass of certain kinds is very old, spectacles had to wait on the discovery or invention of some method that would produce it perfectly transparent. Specimens of glass have been found in the Egyptian tombs that are more than 4,000 years old, and glass bottles are represented on tombs at least 1,500 years earlier. In Mesopotamia the art of making glass has been traced for at least 2,000 years B. C. But all the glass of antiquity was of inferior quality, and was almost useless for purposes where the rays of light were to be transmitted unbroken and with undiminished energy. Mirrors were also made in Egypt thousands of years before the Christian era. The materials used were obsidian, zlnc, and silver. Glass mirrors are mentioned by Pliny, but they gave back a very imperfect image and were not much esteemed. That window glass, such as is now in current use, was slow to gain currency is shown by the little panes in many old buildings in Europe. They are usually round, or nearly so, and so small that one of them can easily be held between the tips of the fingers and the thumb. Cards for Everything. So thoroughly has the card index or catalogue become a part of modern business that practically no activity is without it. Brides keep the list of presents on cards. Pastors are adopting the card index to keep the name and addresses of their parishioners. Not long ago the complete list of members of the Grand Lodge of Masons of New York was transferred to cards. There are a million names. Owners of stables and kennels keep the records of their animals on cards instead of in books. Writers now keep cards on which they put down "experiences" or "eplsodes" to be filed away and to be used for material when they get down to writing.—Sat. Evg. Post. Followers of Mark Twain The latest addition to the fresh air fluids seems to be included in the young ambulance surgeons. In spite of near-to zero weather it is common to see one of these young men responding to a hurry call without a hat, and it is quite as common a sight to see them, even at night time, when it always seems colder than in the day time, seated on the rear seat of the ambulance, attired in white duck trousers. Doub-less it is only a part of the exuberance of youth, but duck trouser, on a night when the mercury is trying to push the bottom out of the thermomoter do reem a trifle out of place. Saying Paper. The price of paper has increased so much in the last few years that we may have to do our writing on bark or celluloid. But here is a pointer: One of the big firms in New York, employing 7,000 people, has a way of assisting you to save letter paper, and at the same time serves itself in a matter of file and record. In writing to a customer, for instance, only one side of the sheet is used. Sheets are made of many slips, to fit the length of all correspondence. At the bottom is printed in blue ink: "If necessary to reply, please do so on the back of this letter. This is a clever idea." Good Sentries. "Silly goose" is an expression which should be used by the extremely ignorant alone. No bird requires more patience to shoot with gun or camera, especially the latter. When feeding you will find flocks varying in size on open ground, and nearly always on such ground that a stalk is impossible. On the outskirts of these flocks you will always find sentries with heads erect, eyes and ears alert, the slightest sound or movement and you are detected—true descendants from the ancient preservers of Rome. —Country Life. Prince Bismarck. Bismarck himself, was a tremendous smoker, eater, and drinker, and would stride about the house followed by his dogs. The pipes and long cigars which he smoked in a day would have killed an ordinary man. He loved to pour into a huge stein a bottle of champagne and then a bottle of porter, and drink the whole mixture off at a single draft. Bismarck said of himself: "If there were many eaters like me in Prussia the state could not exist. I should have to emigrate."—P. T. O. World's Greatest Wonder "What is really the greatest natural wonder on earth?" It is easy to answer now, says the Trav-1 Magazine, since the stupendous falls of the Zambesi River have been discovered; one of the world's mightiest rivers, two miles wide, falling a sheer 420 feet. Niagara is only half a mile wide and 153 feet high, so that it figures as a mere cascade in comparison. Another Way to Put It. It might not be incorrect to say that the man who was smothered-in a bin of oats, died from an overdose of breakfast food. The Man With the Gun. Trouble is always wafting round the corner for the man who has a gun in his pocket. SOMETHING ABOUT MATCHES. Half the Output of the World Used in America. It is now just eighty years since the lucifer match, the first genuine friction match was invented, and the little match, which has been one of the most potent agents of modern material development, is now one of the things which is giving worry to the friends of the forests. It is hard for the present generation to realize the inconveniences from which the friction match emancipated their ancestors. The manufacture of this product has become a great, and even a diversified industry, because every section seems to have matches peculiar to itself. A man who has been a commercial traveler for many years declares that if he were taken up and carried to any point east of the Alleghenies he could tell within a hundred miles of where he was by the matches he should find in use. There is also a national pride in matches, recent mayor of Manchester, England, visiting friends in Boston, recently, spoke of our "abominable matches," and declared that he did not see how a high spirited, independent, and enterprising people like ourselves, put up with them. The American people, however, appear to be fairly well contented with the home product, else they would not buy and consume sc mary with comparatively so little grumbling. They use up about 700,000,000,000 a year or about half of all that are manufactured in the world. With Allowance. There is an editor in a little New York town who has a well developed streak of gentle humor and a fondness for gardening. Not long ago the man of all work left him, and the editor advertised for some one to fill his place. Among the applicants for the position war a man who seemed to know his business thoroughly, but who failed to produce references as to character when requested. Moreover, his eyes were somewhat shifty. "You say you have no references?" the editor asked. "No, sir, I have not," the man replied in a tone of humble pride, "but I think, sir, that you will find honesty printed on my face." The editor smiled a little, "Well—er—perhaps," he admitted; "that is, allowing for typographical errors." The More Careful Widower. In a village of Picardy, after a long sickness, a farmer's wife fell into a lethargy. Her husband was willing, good man to believe her out of pain, and so according to the custom of that country, she was wrapped in a sheet and carried out to be hurled. But, as luck would Have it, the bearers carried her so near the hedge that the thorn pierced the sheet and awoke the woman from her trance. Some years after she died in reality, and as the funeral passed along, the husband would every now and then all out. Not too near the edge, neighbors! Not too near the hedge"—Tit-Bits. Way to Detect Smokeless Powder German military authorities are experimenting with a device by which the location of ir use using smokeless powder may be easily discovered. By this device it is proposed to survey the landscape through pale red glasses. The flash of smokeless powder appears strong in red light, while ordinary objects are dimmed. By furnishing field glasses with the device in question, which is provided with screens of the proper tint, the position of concealed marksmen can be detected. Yew Tree 3,000 Years Old. The oldest e tree not only in Scotland but in Europe, grows at Fortingall is Perthshire. According to a scientific calculation of its age by the late Sir R. Christison, it is at least well over 3,000 years. If Sir Robert's estimate is correct the Fortingall yew must have been of "goodly size" at the time when King Solomon reigned over Israel.—The Scotman. New York's High Birth Rate. The birth rate in New York city during 1907 was 40 per cent higher than that of Paris. In 1907 there were 125,126 births in New York City and 79,205 deaths. There were 13,354 more births in 1907 than in 1906—the greatest increase since 1847. Love Letter Paper. A man has invented a writing paper that crumbles into dust within forty-eight hours after ink has touched it. This is calculated to prevent a lot of trouble in the world. — Clara City (Mo.) Herald. The Respectable Kind. Little Willie—Say, pa, what is a "respectable fortune?" Pa—One that is large enough to make its possessor's opl ion on any subject respected. Christianity in China. It took thirty-five years to build up a church of six members in China, but since 1900 there have been 50,000 natives converted to Christianity. Exquisite Pleasure. The prevalence of the blues is largely due to the exquisite pleasure most people derive in imagining themselves more miserable than anybody else can possibly be. HOTEL DE BERLIN 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 If You Are a Young Doctor and Are On Hand When Needed. If you are a young doctor with all the requirements of a successful career except patients, you may find it pays to go to church. This is true, especially if you have a commanding appearance and are on the job when opportunity offers. One young doctor in Brooklyn found this to be true. He attached himself to a church with a large membership, and was assiduous in attending services. As he was good looking, his presence aroused remark, especially among the women members of the congregation. At the morning services on a recent Sunday, a woman who sat in a front pew near the pulpit fainted. There was a call for a doctor. The young man rose up in his place in a side pew, stalked majestically around to and down the centre aisle, and soon was administering to the sufferer in his best professional manner. It was a big feather in the young doctor's cap.—New York Sun. Porpoises at Play. A remarkable photograph of half a dozen porpoises playing under water just ahead of the bow of a steamship travelling at the rate of 12 knots an hour, has been published by a correspondent of knowledge, Mr. C. H. Gale. Mr. Gale calls attention to the singular fact that the porpoises while easily maintaining their position ahead of the ship showed no apparent effort or motion of body, tall or fin. Yet he thinks that they were not carried along by movement of water in front of the vessel, because air bubbles were seen rushing from their backs, and the photograph shows the effects of these bubbles by the white streaks on the backs of the animals. Sometimes they rolled over sidewise, but they always maintained their position. Youth's Companion. Indian Courage. Katherine Beaulieu, a pupil of the Chilocco Indian School, Oklahoma, had her hand caught in the big steam mangle, and before the machine could be stopped the arm had been dragged in above the elbow. The physician was able to save the arm but in order to facilitate healing it was necessary to graft fifty pieces of skin over the wound. Volunteers were called for and the doctor reported several scrimmages among the other pupils for the privilege of being the first to contribute part of their epidermis.—From the Indian's Friend. European Stationery. Hotel stationery must be cheap in Europe. The envelopes are $6 \frac{1}{2}$ by 5 inches, and usually of some green or bluish tint, with an inch of heavy printing across the top. Frequently no place is left for the stamp. These receptacles are so wide that they arrive folded over a couple of inches, which reduces them to the size of the ordinary American commercial envelope. The Whole Alphabet In the twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra can be found every letter of the English alphabet. It runs thus: "And I, even I, Artaxerxes the King, do make a decree to all the treasures which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily." More Tough Than Cannon A man was blown up by an automobile the other day and killed. He had fought through 60 battles in the civil war. After all in these days of the automobile one must acknowledge that peace has its perils no less than war.-Baltimore American. For Balt Take water in which walnut hulls have soaked over night and pour it on a spot of ground. In a very few hours the fishing worms will come to the surface and can easily be procured for your expedition. Artists Models. There are in Europe 10,000 women and girls who earn a living as artists' models. It is strange to say that there are not ten among them who possess a perfect face and figure. Mme. Davis, A N. B—No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. N. B—Mention The Bee Electoral Votes: The candidate who carries the State either by majority or plurality, is given the electoral vote of the State. The "electors" being elected along with the rest of the ticket are, of course, counted for the winning party. But it is possible, and sometimes happens, that the electors in a given district may be elected by the opposition, in which case the electoral vote of the State is divided. Post Office Pens. Mustard manufacturers grow rich, we are told, not by the quantity of mustard consumed, but by that which is wasted and left on the diners' plates. The saying is recalled by an interesting statement made by the Postmaster-General as to the number of pens supplied for use by the public in the post offices of the country. It seems that last year the total was 1,250,000. Naturalized on the Arm An Italian went to the civil service commissioners' rooms to be examined for a laborer's position. He answered most of the questions correctly. Finally they asked him if he had ever been naturalized. He seemed a bit puzzled, but at last his face lighted up. "Ah, I know whata you mean. Bristache de arm. Yes, lasta week." Nightingales Under a Ben It is said that no nightingales sing in Havering, England. Legend has it that the singing of the birds disturbed the devotions of Edward the Confessor when at his Havering palace, and he therefore placed them under a ban from which they have never recovered. Cement Walks. Why got more cement walks, porch approaches, etc., on farms? The farmer can put them down himself as cheap or cheaper than he can use lumber for the same purpose, and when once down they are there to stay. 4 Oh to Be a Patch! We would rather be only a Patch on the pants of Progress and be sat down on every hour in the day than be and old fogy and a fossil and go about disgrunted at ourselves because we didn't live in the world 300 years ago. Chan 1.0.0 Much Trouble The Sultan of Turkey recently paid $400,000 for a diamond. If he doesn't wish to have trouble with his harem he will insist on using the stone himself. Danger in New York Roads There is an average of seven car collisions a day on the steam, subway, elevated and surface railways of New York. The Week in Society Mr. W. W. Grimes, of 56 Keaton avenue northeast, is still confined to his residence. Mr. Hamilear Turley, of the U. S. Pension Office, is slowly improving. He resides at No. 522 U st., N. W. An offering for the benefit of the Friendless Girls Home, in Eric St., N. W., was lifted Thanksgiving day at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. It amounted to the generous sum of fifty dollars. Eleven ladies were initiated by Prince Hall Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, at its last meeting. Miss Bertha Saunders is Worthy Matron of this chapter, and Mrs. Lemuel C. Harris is Worthy Patron; two excellent officials. As usual everybody meets everybody else around at the Board & McGuire Pharmacy on Fourth street between T and You. Ionic Lodge No. 17, F. A. A. M., held a special meeting on Friday evening, Nov. 27, '08., and conferred the E. A. Degree on the following gentlemen: Benj. P. Jones, Frank L. DeMann, Elmore Benson, Richard Watkins and Chas. A. Bailey. J. W. Williams and H. Hurd conferred the degree. This is the youngest lodge in the District. Elsewhere in The Bee will be seen The Magic Shampoo Drier and Hair Straightener. Mrs.Agnes Smith, of 1308 L Street, northwest, this city, is the agent. Mrs. Maud Cuney Hare, of Jamaica Plains, arrived in this city Tuesday morning. Mr. A. H. Grimkie, of Boston, will spend the winter in this city, Among the visitors to the city from Baltimore, Thanksgiving, were Dr. John C. Robinson, Mr. J. C. White, and Dr. Harry Brown. Miss Eva Hall, who is attending school in this city, spent Thanksgiving at her home in Virginia. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Minor of 1248-Wylie St. N. E., and left a little girl. Dr. E. D. Scott, of 903 9th St. N. E., who has been seriously ill, finds that his friends have not forgotten him. Last Sunday he had 205 callers. the choir of St. Mary's Church last Sunday. November 29, was largely attended. Miss Bessie Pinkney, of this city, is visiting relatives and friends in Baltimore. Send in all social news by Tuesday of each week; write only on one side of the paper. Address it to the Social Editor. They keep busy filling prescriptions at the drug store of Board and MeGuire, 19121/2 14th St. N. W., because physician and patient are confident of getting the very best medicine obtainable from these reliable pharmacists. Mrs. A. W. Scott and baby, wife and baby of Atorney Scott, will leave in a few weeks for North Carolina on a visit to the parents of Attorney Scott. Many social functions await Mrs. Scott on her arrival at the home of Attorney Scott. At the last regular monthly meeting of the Mu-So-Lit club, held in the Conservatory of Music, the following new members were elected: Dr. E. D. Williston; Charles E. Noll; C. J. Pickett; Oliver Randolph; Charles G. Harris; A. O. Stafford; Wyatt Archer and R. R. Homer. An amendment to the constitution was proposed raising the limit of membership from sixty to seventy-five. Mr. Benj. S. Jackson, editor of The Fair Play, Parkersburg, W. Va., spent a few days in the city this week as the guest of Mr. S. Cubert Campbell. Miss Bertie Swann of 1427 Pierce Place, n. w., has returned from Lenox, Mass., where she has been spending several months. Mr. R. W. Thompson, manager of Thompson's National News Bureau, spent ten very busy lays in the Middle West, and was the recipient of many social courtesies at the hands of old friends. His itinerary included Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Jeffersonville, and New Albany, Ind., casting his vote at the last-named place for Taft and Sherman. Mr. Thompson delivered a number of practical speeches at the points visited and gave material aid to the cause of Republicanism among the colored voters. Mrs. Bessie Garnier Carttier, of 1348 Wallach Place, n. w., has returned from an enjoyable visit to Philadelphia. Architect J. A. Lankford leaves next week for Mobile, Ala., to attend the ceremonies incidental to the laying of the corner stone of the main building of the National Negro Fair. Mr. Lankford is giving efficient service as supervising architect and constructing engineer of this great enterprise. Prof. W. I. Scarborough, President of Wilberforce University, spent a few days in the city last week, the guest of Dr. John F. Hurst, at the Financial Department of the A. M. E. Church. Prof. Scarborough, accompanied by Dr. Hurst and Register W. T. Vernon called on President Roosevelt, Saturday, and was given a cordial reception. The professor speaks optimistically of Wilberforce's future. He left Sunday for New York, where he held an important conference with Dr. Booker T. Washington. Mr. and Mrs. James F. Buckner, who were recently married in Louisville, Ky., are cosily domiciled at the home of Mrs. Brown, of 1143 15th street, northwest. They will go to housekeeping shortly. Mrs. Buckner is a charming addition to the society circles of the national Capital. The marriage of Miss Irine, Lawson and Mr. Santuel Cooper, which took place at the home of the bride's mother, on Wednesday evening Nov. 28, was a most brilliant affair. The bride who is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Lawson, of 1819 Lincoln Ave., N. E., is a very clever and vivacious young lady and is extremely popular in this city. The couple stood to be married in a bower of palms and chrysanthemums, in the parlor, which like the rooms adjoinding, was prettily decorated. Mendelssohn's wedding march was played by Miss Irene West. Rev. James H. Lee, of the Third Baptist Church officiated. Miss Emma Dodson, a cousin of the bride was the maid of honor, she was becomingly gowned in pink silk. The best man was Mr. Robert Carroll. The bride's gown was embroidered net, made over white satin, made in directoire style. The reception took place immediately after the ceremony was performed. The presents were numerous and costly. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are now living at 7141/2 13th St., N. E. OUR DRUG STORES. If you want first-class drugs and fine toilet articles, call in and see Dr. Morse, one of the best druggists in the city. Board and McGuire are up-to-date druggists, and if you doubt, inspect their place. Dr. George W. Murray is the pioneer druggist of South Washington. Everybody knows Dr. Murray. He is genial and the man to patronize. SONG SERVICE. The Sunday afternoon Song Service at the Met. A. M. E. Zion Church, 2nd and D streets, southwest, is attracting large crowds. Mr. Joseph JETER BROTHERS The Jeter Brothers of Newport, Rhode Island, Assisted by Miss Mary L. Europe, will give a High Class Concert and Reception at the True Reformers Hall, U St. bet. 12th and 13th. N. W. Monday evening, Jan. 18. 1909. Lyric Orchestra. R. E: Giles, Mngr., Doors open 7:30 p. m.. Carriages Call 2 a. m.—Seats To all Parts of the House, 25 cents. J. Thomas Tascoe. Messrs. H. Leonard, cellist, and Walter H. R. Jeter, pianist and violinist are well known by many of the leading musical people of New England and Middle Atlantic States. They are young men of sterling character and pleasing manners. They perform on their several instruments skillfully and hold the attention of the most fastidious with the pleasing resulfs. Mr. H. Leonard Jeter is possibly the only representative violincello soloist that the race can claim. He comes from a musical family, each member of which has distinguished himself in the playing of one or more instruments. Mr. Walter H. R. Jeter is a pianist and violinist of much merit. He performs on both instruments with ease and grace. At the different concerts where he has performed he has always been heartily applauded. He is a genius.—Fall River Globe. No. 314 Nmth 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. MAKE YOURSELF You may not be a beauty. It is not given to every woman to be beautiful. It is not given to every man to be handsome, but we can all make ourselves presentable. We can all 'groom' ourselves so as not to be physically obnoxious to fastidious people. This matter is exceedingly important to colored people as well as white. Men cannot secure and keep the best positions in banks, clubs and business houses unless presentable and physically acceptable. Girls cannot keep the best positions in commercial and domestic life nor win the best husbands, nor get along as well in the world in any manner unless they make a presentable appearance. All this is just as important for colored women as for white women. Before 'Complexion Wonder' was discovered, every ambitious white woman in the United States used some kind of powder or cold cream. Now they are learning to use 'Wonder.' This is the first discovery ever made which works for colored skin better than white skin. Now the people who use 'Wonder' are mostly white women. It is high time colored women and colored men were learning to use it. You must also have your hair dressed attractively. If it is too short, use 'Wonder Hair Grow,' which is a fertilizer for the scalp just as fertilizers in the corn field make the corn stalks grow, so Wonder Grow helps the scalp to feed the hair so it will grow longer. If your hair is too kinky, use 'Wonder Uncurl' and the 'Wonder Comb. The Comb costs but fifty cents, and will last a life time. M. B. Berger & Co., 2 Rector St. New York, inform us they will send any of these articles, free delivery, for fifty cents in Post Office order or postage stamps. Newman, Director of the choir is putting out some interesting programs. Mr. Joseph Wilson will render a solo tomorrow afternoon at 3:45 p. m. All are welcomeed. All Stores Make Buying Easy We Make the Paying Easy The Most Liberal Credit House in the World THINK ABOUT THIS. Your home may be made to correspond to a good bank-account. Its furnishings may be added to a little at a time until you have accumulated a handsome nest-egg right there. And such a thing is not hard to do if you go about: in the right way. We know of no firm in Washington which will help you to such an extent in this direction as the Peter Grogan and Sons Company, of 817-823-Seventh street. A person who is at all responsible may go to their store and buy a bill of housefurnishings without being required to make a cash payment at the time. They simply ask you to pay a small amount weekly or monthly. The goods are delivered to you without a contract, lease or note, and they are yours You have an open account with them, and by keeping it in good standing you can add to it just as you need more goods. Payments will be arranged to correspond with your income, and a little careful planning will keep you from feeling them at all. It's a good way to save. When the bill is paid you have something to show for it, and you've had the use of the goods while paying. Make your home comfortable. Make it attractive. You'll be a lot happier, and you'll take a pride in having your friends with you there GALBRAITH CHURCH. The Fifty-seventh Anniversary celebration of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church continues with increased interest. Sunday Nov. 23, at 11 a. m., the pastor was assisted in the service by J. A. Robbins, of Virginia. After the sermon the Holy Sacrament was celebrated. At four in the afternoon, Dr. F. A. Seaton, of Georgetown, delivered an address to the Daughters of Conference, of which Miss Laura Stewart is President. At 8 p. m., a literary and musical program was rendered, under the direction of Mrs. Nellie Let. The Church was crowded to its utmost capacity and the-consensus of opinion is that it was a high class entertainment in every respect. The offering was unusually large. Monday evening, Nov. 24, an old folk's concert was given in the lecture room of the church, under the No Contract to Sign No Lease to Sign No Notes to Sign PET The When you find it a fact that 95 per cent of the world's business is done on credit, it means that 95 per cent of buyers want to pay at their own convenience. We have builted our great business on this world's principle. We have studied the credit question with a purpose to make it of the greatest possible help to you. We have constantly added pleasant features, and eliminated the disagreeable ones. To-day our New Credit System offers all that can come within the meaning of the word: We commence business relations with our customers by trusting them. We give them an open account on our books without going outside and inquiring into their private affairs. We're interested in the business they want to do with US. We sell them a single piece of furniture, or the complete furnishings for a home, and arrange the payments as they wish—weekly or monthly. We give them what they need and what they wish, and they enjoy the comfort of a well furnished home while paying the bill. Our kind of credit has no strings nor hooks—when goods are delivered they're YOURS, without signing a contract, lease, or note. Just a Word About Prices We give you convincing proof that our credit prices are no higher than those of the average cash store. Every article in our stock is marked in plain figures—at the credit price. You can make the comparison, and we only ask you to see that the values are equal. See that the quality is guaranteed as we guarantee it, for nothing leaves this store without our guaranty that it shall be just as perfect as we represent, or WE MAKE IT SO. Now, sum up our offer in a line: An equality of prices, an absolute guaranty of values, prompt delivery, the help of the most equitable credit system in the world. Doesn't that make both buying and the paying as easy as you could ask? DR. MORSE'S DRUG STORE. If you want to patronize an up-to-date pharmacy, you should not fail to patronize Dr. Morse, 1904 L street, northwest. This is one of the finest drug stores in the city. It will cost you nothing to inspect it. See for yourself. Visit The Best One of the leading places in the city is that of Samuel G. Stewart, 1141 Seventh street northwest (between L and M streets), Washington, D. C. auspices of the choir. There was not standing room at this concert. Wednesday, Nov. 25., Dr. Norman, of the Metropolitan Baptist, delivered a sermon to the four Wednesday night classes. Thursday morning regular Thanksgiving service was held from twelve to one. The pastor delivered the sermon. Sunday morning, Nov. 29. at 11 a.m., the pastor delivered a sermon upon "The future of Zion." In the evening at 8 p. m., there was a congregational service in which all the departments of the church were represented. The choir furnished special music for the occasion. Sunday, 6th., at 11 a. m., will begin the first of a series of sermons, "On the need of Reformation. In the evening at 8 p. m., "The Valley of Dry Bones." The Bee can be purchased at the following places: W. H. Lee, 920 20th st., n. w., Mr. Byrd, 1500 14th st., n. w., Dr. A. S. Gray, 12th and U'sts, n. w. The collector will call next week. Have your subscription ready for him. DRESSING PARLORS. Messrs. Davis and Thorne, two of the best known tonsorial artists in the city have opened hair dressing parlors for colored ladies at 1403-1405 T street Northwest. Competent and expert lady attendants. To give everybody an opportunity 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. BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. DIAMONDS, JEWELRY. GUNS, MECHANICAL TOOLS, LADIES' AND GENTS' WEARING APPAREL OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT. UNREDEEMED - PLEDGES FQR SALF. 361 Pennsylvania Ave. N. W. THE ONLY UP TO DATE HAIR DRESSING PARLOR IN THE CITY FOR COLORED LADIES. SCALP AND HAIR TREATMENT. ELECTRIC FACIAL AND SCALP MASSAGE. MANICURING, SHAMPOOING, ELECTRIC HAIR DRYING. COMPETENT LADY ATTENDANTS. HAIR CULTURE A SPECIALTY. DAVIS & THORN, 1403 & 1405 T STREET NORTH WEST. THE BEE'S BRANCH OFFICE. The Washington Bee's branch office that has just been established at 310 Four and a half street, southwest, will be under the management of Mr. Prince A. Harriston. Persons in that section of the city who desire a copy of The Bee will find it on sale at the office. Leave your locals, advertisements, and subscriptions at the branch office, 310 Four and a half st., southwest. TUSKLESS ELEPHANT. Ceylon the Only Part of the World Where They Exist. What a sight for a Ceylon elephant hunter would be the first view of a herd of African elephants—all tuskers! It is a singular thing that Ceylon is the only part of the world where the male elephants have no tusks; they have nissable little grubbies projecting two or three inches from the upper jaw and inclining downward. Nothing produces either ivory or horn in fine specimens throughout Ceylon. Although some of the buffaloes have tolerably fine heads, they will not bear a comparison with those of other countries. The horns of the native cattle are not above four inches in length. The elk and the spotted deers antlers are small compared with deer of their size in India. This is more angular, as it is evident from the geological formation that at some remote period. Ceylon was not an island, but formed a portion of the main land. It is thought there must be elements wanting in the Ceylon pasturage for the formation" of ivory.—Ceylon Manual. Smokeless Coal. A London inventor claims to have discovered a process for producing smokeless coal, apparently by distillation of coal at a low temperature. This, after distillation, is said to deposit a very brilliant substance, the heating properties of which are far greater than those of the original coal, and which is absolutely free from smoke and dirt. The inventor contends that efforts to overcome the smoke plague have hitherto been unsuccessful because they have been made in the wrong direction, and that by the extraction of the smoke-producing material in coal before being burned, he has been successful in producing a smokeless coal. Electrocuting Animals The slaughter of animals for tood by electrocution is being experimented by Dr. Leduc, a French scientist, who has been conducting his investigations in the French abbattoirs. He has been using the intermittent low tension currents and says that he is satisfied that the system is painless, the central functions of perception being first destroyed and then those of circulation and respiration, so that there is neither suffering nor reaction in the animals thus killed. The doctor is endeavoring to devise some piece of apparatus by which the killing of cattle may be accomplished by electricity with economy and celerity. The Shy Man. Women show no mercy to the shy man, for he stands outside of the compass of convention. Could he break out all might be saved; the man might be permanently cured. But he cannot. He has been brought up to respect convention. His muscles may be of steel, his heart of fire, but in his soul the spirit of diffidence holds him in a vice. In a drawing room he stands gaping, quaking, a prey to introspective torment—he who would perhaps storm a rampart with a triumphant smile on his lips.—London Observer. Hanging Pictures Dangerous "Railroad casualties receive such wide publicity," said an insurance man. "that there is a common belief on the part of the public that one is more liable to accidents while travelling than when living the simple life in the confines of his home. "As a matter of cold fact, statistics show that accident insurance companies pay more money to people who get hurt hanging pictures or taking stoves apart than they do to the victims of head-on collisions. It sounds strange, but it's the truth." —Kansas City Journal. Three Men to Move Book. There lies in the British Museum the largest book yet printed, a codossal atlas of engraved ancient Dutch maps. It takes three men to move it from the giant book case in which it is stored in the library of the museum. It is bound in leather, magnificently decorated, and is fastened with clasps of solid silver, richly gilt. It is nearly seven feet high and weighs 800 pounds and was presented to King Charles II. before he left Holland in the year 1660. Valuable East African Forest. The Colonial Office recently sent out an expert to report on the Kenya forest, in the East Africa protectorate. He finds the forest extends 887 miles long by eight miles broad, and comprises 1,000,000 acres of timber. Taking the average value of the 2 1/2 d. per cubic foot, this works out to £23 per acre, or a total value for the whole forest of £23,000,000.-London Tit-Bits. Dead Historians. I for my part believe in the dead historians. I glory in the possession of some hundreds of volumes by them. A great deal of cant is talked and written on this subject. There is an idea in some minds that a book on history to be good must be new. In nine cases cut of ten the new book is a common-place re-statement of facts that were better presented by an older writer.—The Sphere. A Man and a Woman. A man's idea of being stylishly dressed is to wear something in which he looks atrociously bad; a woman's to wear something no other woman can duplicate. STRATEGICAL USES OF TAILS. The Clever' Little Weasel and His Means of Defense. Take another of our animals, a fierce little weasel, clad in summer in a coat of brown, in winter turning white, but always with a jet black tip to the tall. The ermine, as it is if correctly called in its winter coat, has an easy time of it, sneaking upon the mice and birds upon which it preys, but when a hawk takes after it in an open field in the sunlight or an owl in the moonlight, it would have but short shrift with all its sinuous leaping, were it not that the black tall tip is so conspicuous that it constantly attracts the eye and allows the pure white of the body to be confused with the snow. Even when we place a dead weasel on the snow and look at it from a distance, we realize how true this is, and how valuable must be the pencil tufts of black hairs to this little vermin who spends his life in hunting or being hunted.—The Outing Magazine. Everyone of Them a Bird. A current newspaper item is as follows: "The wife of a Methodist minister in West Virgina, has been married three times. Her malden name was Partridge; her first husband was named Robin; her second husband, Sparrow; and the present one's name is Quayle. There are row two young Robins, one Sparrow, and three little Quayles in the family. One grandfather was a Swan, and another was a Jay; but he's dead and now a bird of Paradise. "They live on Hawk-ave., Eagleville, Canary Islands, and the fellow who wrote this article is a lyre bird and an interesting relative of the family." Arctic Dog Life. Nowhere in the world has the dog such unrestricted right of way as in our most northerly possession Alaska. In winter, when the more than 60,000 square miles of territory are sealed up in solid ice, dogs are almost the sole means of getting from place to place—in fact, they seem necessary to life itself. The aristocrats of Arctic dog life are the mail teams in the service of the United States Government. They are to-day a superior breed to the dogs employed some half dozen years ago before great gold discoveries demanded increased mall service.—St. Nicholas. Names that Don't Name. Many chemical names convey no exact idea of the things they stand for. Oil of vitriol is no oil, neither are oils of turpentine and kerosene. Copperas is an iron compound and contains no copper. Salts of lemon is the extremely poisonous oxalic acid. Carbolic acid is not an acid but an alcohol. Cobalt contains none of that metal but arsenic. Soda water has no trace of soda, and sugar of lead has no sugar; cream of tartar has nothing of cream, nor milk of lime any milk. German silver has no silver and blacklead no lead. Dogs around Blacksmith Shops. Two or three dogs are nearly always to be found loafing about every blacksmith shop. This fact is so well recognized that detectives when sent out after valuable dogs that have been lost invariably visit first all the blacksmith shops in the neighborhood. The reason why dogs visit the blacksmith shops is that they love inordinately the odor and the taste of burning hoofs. They sniff the odor as a woman sniffs a rose, and they eat the hoof parings as a gourmet eats truffles.—Minneapolis Journal. Supply of Gold. It is mainly from Africa, America and Australia that the world draws its supply of gold, some $400,000,000 worth won regularly every year. Africa leads with about $150,000,000; next comes the United States with about $95,000,000; Australia ranks third with some $85,000,000, while Russia, both in Europe and Asia, Mexico, Canada and several other countries, make up the remainder. A Long Sleep. An astonishing trance case has come to light in Berlin. A clerk, aged 46—a healthy normal man—suddenly fell asleep in June 1904. All efforts to awaken him were unsuccessful and the sleeper since then has never opened his eyes. He breathes regularly and swallows his food mechanically, but is insensible to the severest attempts to arouse him. Lace Curtains. Lace window curtains should always be soaked for an hour in cold water to which a little borax has been added, before being put into warm suds. This gee' out the smoky small that is sometimes so noticeable in curtains that have have been used in a city. Life in Germany. Every one who has travelled in Germany is familiar with the word "verboten"—forbidden. He finds it is verboten to almost everything which he thinks he has been accustomed to do in the United States.—Chicago Standard. A Valuable Belle. A thirteenth century copper and allt ciblorum, supposed to have come from Malmenbury abbey, was sold by auction in London for $20,000. ANTIQUITY OF GLASS. Made in Egypt Thousands of Years Before the Christian Era. Though the art of making glass of certain kinds is very old, spectacles had to wait on the discovery or invention of some method that would produce it perfectly transparent. Specimens of glass have been found in the Egyptian tombs that are more than 4,000 years old, and glass bottles are represented on tombs at least 1,500 years earlier. In Mesopotamia the art of making glass has been traced, for at least 2,000 years B. C. But all the glass of antiquity was of inferior quality, and was almost useless for purposes where the rays of light were to be transmitted unbroken and with undiminished energy. Mirrors were also made in Egypt thousands of years before the Christian era. The materials used were obsidian, zinc, and silver. Glass mirrors are mentioned by Pliny, but they gave back a very imperfect image and were not much esteemed. That window glass, such as is now in current use, was slow to gain currency is shown by the little panes in many old buildings in Europe. They are usually round, or nearly so, and so small that one of them can easily be held between the tips of the fingers and the thumb. Cards for Everything. So thoroughly has the card index or catalogue become a part of modern business that practically no activity is without it. Brides keep the list of presents on cards. Pastors are adopting the card index to keep the name and addresses of their parishioners. Not long ago the complete list of members of the Grand Lodge of Masons of New York was transferred to cards. There are a million names. Owners of stables and kennels keep the records of their animals on cards instead of in books. Writers now keep cards on which they put down "experiences" or "episodes" to be filed away and to be used for material when they get down to writing.—Sat. Evg. Post. Followers of Mark Twain The latest addition to the fresh air fiends seems to be included in the young ambulance surgeons. In spite of near-to zero weather it is common to see one of these young men responding to a hurry call without a hat, and it is quite as common a sight to see them, even at night time, when it always seems colder than in the day time, seated on the rear seat of the ambulance, attired in white duck trousers. Doubless it is only a part of the exuberance of youth, but duck trouser, on a night when the mercury is trying to push the bottom out of the thermomter do seem a trifle out of place. Saying Paper. The price of paper has increased so much in the last few years that we may have to do our writing on bark or celluloid. But here is a pointer: One of the big firms in New York, employing 7,000 people, has a way of assisting you to save letter paper, and at the same time serves itself in a matter of file and record. In writing to a customer, for instance, only one side of the sheet is used. Sheets are made of many sizes, to fit the length of all correspondence. At the bottom is printed in blue ink: "If necessary to reply, please do so on the back of this letter. This is a clever idea." Good Sentries. "Silly goose" is an expression which should be used by the extremely ignorant alone. No bird requires more patience to shoot with gun or camera, especially the latter. When feeding you will find flocks varying in size on open ground, and nearly always on such ground that a stalk is impossible. On the outskirts of these flocks you will always find sentries with heads erect, eyes and ears alert, the slightest sound or movement and you are detected—true descendants from the ancient preservers of Rome. —Country Life. Prince Bismarck. Bismarck himself, was a tremendous smoker, eater, and drinker, and would stride about the house followed by his dogs. The pipes and long cigars which he smoked in a day would have killed an ordinary man. He loved to pour into a huge stein a bottle of champagne and then a bottle of porter, and drink the whole mixture off at a single draft. Bismarck sald of himself: "If there were many eaters like me in Prussia the state could not exist. I should have to emigrate."—P. T. O. World's Greatest Wonder. "What is really the greatest natural wonder on earth?" It is easy to answer now, says the Trawl Magazine, since the stupendous falls of the Zambesi river have been discovered; one of the world's mightiest rivers, two miles wide, falling a sheer 420 feet. Niagara is only half a mile wide and 153 feet high, so that it figures as a mere cascade in comparison. Another Way to Put It. It might not be incorrect to say that the man who was smothered in a bin of oats, died from an overdose of breakfast food. The Man With the Gun. Trouble is always wafting round the corner for the man who has a gun in his pocket. SOMETHING ABOUT MATCHES. Half the Output of the World Used in America. It is now just eighty years since the lucifer match, the first genuine friction match was invented; and the little match, which has been one of the most potent agents of modern material development, is now one of the things which is giving worry to the friends of the forests. It is hard for the present generation to realize the inconveniences from which the friction match emancipated their ancestors. The manufacture of this product has become a great, and even a diversified industry, because every section seems to have matches peculiar to itself. A man who has been a commercial traveler for many years declares that if he were taken up and carried to any point east of the Alleghenies he could tell within a hundred miles of where he was by the matches he should find in use There is also a national pride in matches, recent mayor of Manchester, England, visiting friends in Boston, recently, spoke of our "abominable matches," and declared that he did not see how a high spirited, independent, and enterprising people like ourselves, put up with them. The American people, however, appear to be fairly well contented with the home product, else they would not buy and consume sc many with comparatively so little grumbling. They use up about 700,000,000,000 a year or about half of all that are manufactured in the world. With Allowance. There is an editor in a little New York town who has a well developed streak of gentle humor and a fondness for gardening. Not long ago the man of all work left him, and the editor advertised for some one to fill his place. Among the applicants for the position was a man who seemed to know his business thoroughly, but who failed to produce references as to character when requested. Moreover, his eyes were somewhat shifty. "You say you have no references?" the editor asked. "No, sir, I have not," the man replied in a tone of humble pride, "but I think, sir, that you will find honesty printed on my face." The editor smiled a little, "Well—er—perhaps," he admitted; "that is, allowing for typographical errors." The More Careful Widower. In a village of Picardy, after a long sickness, a farmer's wife fell into a lethargy. Her husband was willing, good man, to believe her out of pain, and so according to the custom of that country, she was wrapped in a sheet and carried out to be buried. But, as luck would Have it, the bearers carried her so near the hedge that the thorn pierced the sheet and awoke the woman from her trance. Some years after she died in reality, and as the funeral passed along, the husband would every now and then all out. Not too near the edge, neighbors! Not too noar the hedge!"—Tilt-Bits. Way to Detect Smokeless Powder German military authorities are experimenting with a device by which the location of trump using smokeless powder may be easily discovered. By this device it is proposed to survey the landscape through pale red glasses. The flash of smokeless powder appears strong in red light, while ordinary objects are dimmed. By furnishing field glasses with the device, in question, which is provided with screens of the proper tint, the position of concealed marksmen can be detected. Yew Tree 3.000 Years Old. The oldest tree not only in Scotland but in Europe, grows at Fortallgall in Perthshire. According to a scientific calculation of its age by the late Sir R. Christison, it is at least well over 3,000 years. If Sir Robert's estimate is correct the Fortallgall yew must have been of "goodly size" at the time when King Solomon reigned over Israel.—The Scotman. New York's High Birth Rate. The birth rate in New York city during 1907 was 40 per cent higher than that of Paris. In 1907 there were 125,126 births in New York City and 79,205 deaths. There were 13,354 more births in 1907 than in 1908—the gre.test increase since 1847. Love Letter Paper. A man has invented a writing paper that crumbles into dust within forty-eight hours after ink has touched it. This is calculated to prevent a lot of trouble in the world. —Clara City (Mo.) Herald. The Respectable Kind. Little Willie—Say, pa, what is a "respectable fortune?" Pa—One that is large enough to make its possessor's opl ion on any subject respected. Christianity in China. It took thirty-five years to build up a church of six members in China, but since 1900 there have been 50,000 natives converted to Christianity. Exquitsite Pleasure. The prevalence of the blues is largely due to the exquisite pleasure most people derive in imagining themselves more miserable than anybody else can possibly be. MUSEUM OF ART 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 If You Are a Young Doctor and Are On Hand When Needed. If you are a young doctor with all the requirements of a successful career except patients, you may find it pays to go to church. This is true, especially if you have a commanding appearance and are on the job when opportunity offers. One young doctor in Brooklyn found this to be true. He attached himself to a church with a large membership, and was assiduous in attending services. As he was good looking, his presence aroused remark, especially among the women members of the congregation. At the morning services on a recent Sunday, a woman who sat in a front pew near the pulpit fainted. There was a call for a doctor. The young man rose up in his place in a side pew, stalked majestically around to and down the centre aisle, and soon was administering to the sufferer in his best professional manner. It was a big feather in the young doctor's cap.—New York Sun. Porpoises at Play. A remarkable photograph of half a dozen porpoises playing under water just ahead of the bow of a steamship travelling at the rate of 12 knots an hour, has been published by a correspondent of knowledge, Mr. C. H. Gale. Mr. Gale calls attention to the singular fact that the porpoises while easily maintaining their position ahead of the ship showed no apparent effort or motion of body, tall or fin. Yet he thinks that they were not carried along by movement of water in front of the vessel, because air bubbles were seen rushing from their backs, and the photograph shows the effects of these bubbles by the white streaks on the backs of the animals. Sometimes they rolled over sidewise, but they always maintained their position. Youth's Companion. Indian Courage. Katherline Beaulieu, a pupil of the Chilocco Indian School, Oklahoma, had her hand caught in the big steam mangle, and before the machine could be stopped the arm had been dragged in above the elbow. The physician was able to save the arm but in order to facilitate healing it was necessary to graft fifty pieces of skin over the wound. Volunteers were called for and the doctor reported several scrimmages among the other pupils for the privilege of being the first to contribute part of their epidermis.—From the Indian's Friend. European Stationery. Hotel stationery must be cheap in Europe. The envelopes are $ \frac{6}{2} $ by 5 inches, and usually of some green or bluish tint, with an inch of heavy printing across the top. Frequently no place is left for the stamp. These receptacles are so wide that they arrive folded over a couple of inches, which reduces them to the size of the ordinary American commercial envelope. The Whole Alphabet In the twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra can be found every letter of the English alphabet. It runs thus: "And I, even I, Artaxerxes the King, do make a decree to all the treasures which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily." More Terrible Than Cannon. A man was blown up by an automobile the other day and killed. He had fought through 60 battles in the civil war. After all in these days of the automobile one must acknowledge that peace has its perils no less than war.—Baltimore American. For Balt. - Take water in which walnut hulls have soaked over night and pour it on a spot of ground. In a very few hours the fishing worms will come to the surface and can easily be procured for your expedition. Artists Models. There are in Europe 10,000 women and girls who earn a living as artists' models. It is strange to say that there are not ten among them who possess a perfect face and figure. Mme. Davis, A BORN CLAIRVOYANT AND CARD READER TELLS ABOUT BUSINESS. 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 Electoral Votes. The candidate who carries the State either by majority or plurality, is given the electoral vote of the State. The "electors" being elected along with the rest of the ticket are, of course, counted for the winning party. But it is possible, and sometimes happens, that the electors in a given district may be elected by the opposition, in which case the electoral vote of the State is divided. Post Office Pens Mustard manufacturers grow rich, we are told, not by the quantity of mustard consumed, but by that which is wasted and left on the diners' plates. The saying is recalled by an interesting statement made by the Postmaster-General as to the number of pens supplied for use by the public in the post offices of the country. It seems that last year the total was 1,250,000. Naturalized on the Arm. An Italian went to the civil service commissioners' rooms to be examined for a laborer's position. He answered most of the questions correctly. Finally they asked him if he had ever been naturalized. He seemed a bit puzzled, but at last his face lighted up. "Ah, I know whata you mean. Scratcha de arm. Yes, lasta week." Nighttime Under a Box It is said that no nightingales sing in Havering, England. Legend has it that the singing of the birds disturbed the devotions of Edward the Confessor when at his Havering palace, and he therefore placed them under a ban from which they have never recovered. Cement Walks. Why not more cement walks, porch approaches, etc., on farm? The farmer can put them down himself as cheap or cheaper than he can use lumber for the same purpose, and when once down they are there to stay. f Oh, to Be a Fatch! We would rather be only a Patch on the pants of Progress and be sat down on every hour in the day than be and old fogy and a fossil and go about disgrunted at ourselves because we didn't live in the world 300 years ago. Chan of Much Trouble The Sultan of Turkey recently paid $400,000 for a diamond. If he doesn't wish to have trouble with his harem he will insist on using the stone himself. Danger in New York Roads. There is an average of seven car collisions a day on the steam, subway, elevated and surface railways of New York. THE NIGHT RIDERS AIDED KENTUCKY Original Organization Did Away with Toll Gates and Brought About Good Roads. COMPANIES DISOBEYED THE LAW Crimes Committed Now Are by Gangs Hiding Behind Name of Old Association Which Caused the Abolishment of the Turnpike Companies. Louisville, Ky.—There has not been, it is said, a crime of mob violence committed in this State. In Tennessee, or, in fact, in any of the Southern States or in any of the Middle Western States in the past several years, with the exception of the occasional lynching of a negro by a mob, that has not been shouldered on the Night Riders. The Night Riders were an organized body back in 1900, when the State Legislature passed a law doing away with private ownership of State roads. For months the turnpike corporations refused to obey the State laws. They appealed to the State Supreme Court, then to the Court of Appeals, and lastly to the United States Supreme Court, and on each appeal they would get a stay, which made it possible for them to continue running their toll gates and charging two cents a mile for every horse or vehicle that passed over their property. Because of the law's delay the condition of the roads became impassible. The owners of the turnplkes would not expend one cent for improvements as long as there was question of their losing their property by a final court decision, but they did not cease to mulct travellers. All this while they refused to accept the fair price offered by the State for their roads. It was then that the Night Riders were organized. The organization spread from Shelby County to every part of the State, and one night in the late fall men rode from their homes and began burning toll gates. There is no record of a toll gate keeper being injured unless he showed resistance. Then he was taken from the house, and if he continued to be defiant he was flogged. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the tole gate keeper was glad to give up his job and let the gate burn. Night Riders undoubtedly brought the turnippe corporations to terms. There was not a toll gate left standing In the State of Kentucky by the following spring. Had the taxpayers and farmers been contented to allow the law to take its never ending course the chances are that toll gates would still be holding up travellers on the State roads to-day, and that the roads would have been worse now than they were when the Night Riders became organized. The Kentucky roads now are among the best in the United States. There are not'millions of dollars of watered stock on which to pay interest, and the State tax has improved them and even made it possible for almost all of them to be sprinkled with oil during the summer season, thus laving the dust. The success of the Night Riders in the war against toll gates led to an organization of a similar character when the fight was waged against the American Tobacco Company. But out of this last organization there grew a body of violent men, who live on excitement and thrive on lawlessness. Then sprang up, too, lawless bodies of men in many of the Southern and Middle Western States, who chose to call themselves Night Riders, though the probabilities are that 99 per cent. of the men didn't own so much as a horse to ride. If a list of the original body of Night Riders could be had the chances are that the names of many men who figured in the operations of the old Ku-Klux gang would be found, and if this list were sifted down it would show that many property-owners and men of prominence had resorted to violence because of their belief that action was their only safeguard against ruin, and that a defiance of law had to be met by a like defiance. Pryche Knot a Life Saver Altoona, Pa.—Having washed and dried her hair, Mary Housner, aged twenty-two, did it up in a Psyche knot and walked out on the front porch. While she leaned against the railing it gave way and she was precipitated backward, head first, ten feet to the sidewalk, alighting on her head. The colfure broke, the impact of her head against the flagstones, but she did not entirely escape injury. She suffered a slight concussion of the brain, but recovered consciousness a few hours later. Old Age Common In Rochefort Paris, France.—Rochefort seems to be a great town for longevity. Investigation of the records reveals the fact that during the last century from January 1, 1801, to December 31, 1900, 144 persons in Rochefort attained the age of 90 or over. Two of these were centenarians, one reaching the age of 103, and the other dying at 106. PETE, TAME MUSKRAT IS DEAD Careless Gunner Shoots Strange Pet of Farmer's Family. Swinefield, N. J.—Wounded fatally by a gunner who had obtained permission to hunt for game on the farm, Pete, a tame muskrat, for five years the chief attraction of Charles Water's place, crawled from a brook to the feet of his master, looked at him piteously and pleadingly and then died. Instantly there was a rage in the heart of Waters. He ran to the back of the barn and saw the slayer of his pet running across the fields toward Caldwell. When the news of the death of the rodent was communicated to the other members of the Waters family they denounced the shooting as "delliberate murder." Even old Rover, the family dog, dropped his ears when he saw the bleeding body of his playmate, and the cats, which had so many good times sporting with the muskrat in the barnyard and down by the brook at the back of the barn, seemed to understand that some one had committed a crime which never could be repaired. Knowing the muskrat's feeding ground was back of the barn, Waters had expressly stipulated that the gunner should not do any shooting there. If that injunction had been obeyed Pete probably would be alive and well now. In the spring of 1903 the home of Pete's parents was invaded and he and four other young muskrats were found there. Waters was attracted to Pete and decided to let him live. The others were killed. Pete became a pet in the Waters family. He manifested his appreciation of kindness by becoming as tame and as playful as a kitten. From the hands of members of the family he ate pieces of tender cabbage, lettuce and celery. He seemed to know he never must touch that growing in the garden. Each day he would go to the brook at the back of the barn and dig up and eat flag root and other water bulbs, of which he was exceedingly fond. When he got old enough he built a house near the barn and stored therein his winter supply of herbs and roots. With the approach of winter Pete would retire to his home and only emerge from it on particular warm days. He would spend an hour or two in the house and then return to his snug winter quarters. The sagacious animal was engaged in getting sticks and grass with which to repair his home when he was shot. Although suffering mortal agony he immediately began crawling along the ground to find the man who had been kind to him ever since he was a fuzzy little baby rat. HYPNOTISM AS ANAESTHETIC. Boy's Hip Put Back in Its Socket Without Giving Him Pain. Philadelphia. — Hypnotism was brought into play recently in the Hahnemann Hospital as an anaesthetic. The patient, six-year-old Clark Bender of No. 1112 Spring street, underwent the painful operation of having his dislocated hip put back into its socket without uttering a whimper. To Ray Murray, an orderly in one hospital, belongs the credit or making the operation painless. When the boy was carried into the hospital by his grandfather, Samuel Edward, the old man objected to an anaesthetic being used, even when the doctors said that the boy was suffering from a dislocated hip and that the operation of replacing the bone, although simple, would cause the boy excruciating pain. When the doctors and the grandfather were arguing the matter, Murray, who has read numerous books on hypnotism and has practiced the art on many employees of the hospital, said: "Leave it to me, and I will fix the boy so that he won't feel any pain." The orderly made a few passes with the hand over the youngster's face, and the child passed into a deep slumber. The hlp was then put in place. When the operation was over Murray had no difficulty in restoring the patient to consciousness. The boy said that he had not felt the slightest sensation while the doctors were manipulating the hlp. He walked home with his grandfather. The dislocation was caused by a fall. SOLD WIFE FOR $25. Transaction 22 Years Old Comes Out in English Court. London.—Dunmow is a small town in Essex famous for the custom annually observed there of presenting a filch of bacon to a married couple who have not exchanged a cross word for a twelvemonth. This week Dunmow came into prominence for another sort of matrimonial relation. A cottager 70 years of age was on trial on a charge of ill-treating his children. A much younger woman, who was generally supposed to be his wife, testified she was the legal spouse of another man who had sold her for a five-pound note twenty-two years ago to the prisoner, to whom she had in that period borne three children. The Jerusalem Temple. The original temple built by Solomon, 1,000 B. C., was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, B. C. 586. Built by Zerubbabel, B. C. 534. Partially destroyed by Pompey, B. C. 62. Rebuilt by Herod, B. C. 21, and finally destroyed by Titus, A D. 70—New York American. SELLS HIS BLOOD AT BARGAIN RATE Man Charges $10 to Give Up 15 Ounces of Life Fluid to Save Boy's Life. PATIENT'S FATHER CLOSES DEAL. Transfusion Operation is Made as Soon as the Bargain Between Buyer and Seller Was Struck—Man and Boy Eyed Each Other During Operation. New York City.—Human blood went at bargain-counter prices in Bellevue Hospital when for $10 a guest of Mills Hotel No. 3 sold fifteen ounces of his life fluid, thereby probably saving the life of John Dennison, 15 years old, a patient suffering from malignant growth on the right leg. There was nothing heroic about the manner in which the man sold his blood. It was purely a business proposition. The Mills Hotel man needed the ten-spot and felt he could spare the blood. The father of the patient, though poor, felt he could spare the $10 in view of his son's need for the fresh blood. Striking a bargain between buyer and seller was easy. Dennison's father went to Mills Hotel No. 3 and announced he was in the market for human blood. He explained that his son was in Bellevue Hospital and that the surgeons were anxious to transfuse the blood of a healthy person into the body of the boy. "The doctors want a strong man who is healthy in every way," the father explained. A guest registered as Mark Owen, who refused to tell anything further about himself, stepped forward, and remarked he would like to know more about it. Big, broad-shouldered, with the glow of health in his cheeks, he looked as if he would pass the test of the physicians. "I guess you'll do," said Dennison. "How much blood do you want?" asked Owen. "Fifteen ounces." "How much do I get?" "Ten dollars." "I'm your man," and the bargain was struck. The rate was 66 2-3 cents an onuce. Up to Bellevue Hospital marched Dennison and Owen. The surgeons examined the man who was willing to sell fifteen ounces of his blood for $10, and told him he would do. The nature of the operation then was explained to him. He was told that the patient was suffering from what is known as sarcoma, a malignant growth. To save the boy's life it was necessary to take from his body about sixteen ounces of the impure blood and transfuse in the body about fifteen ounces of healthy fluid. "I don't want to be chloroformed during the operation," Owen said. "No anaesthetics will be given," replied one of the surgeons. "We'll deaden the pain by-an injection of cocaine." "Go ahead," said Owen. "I'm ready." Dennison was placed on the operating table and Owen was laid on another table. Between the two was a narrow table upon which the boy and the man each placed an arm. The surgeons made an incision in the boy's upper arm and blood was permitted to flow from the upper part of the median vein, while the lower part was closed. In this way the boy was relieved qf about sixteen ounces of his impure and unnourished blood. An incision then was made in the forearm of the man. The surgeons rapidly connected the lower ligament of the man's radial artery with the upper vein of the boy's arm, and the blood of the man began to pass into the body of the boy. Dennison and Owen watched each other coolly throughout the operation. Not a whimper came from the boy, not a groan from the man. When the operation was over the boy's temperature showed marked improvement. Owen was weak after the operation. He took a stimulant and then left the hospital, not forgetting, of course, to collect his $10 before leaving. BURGLARS GAZETTE IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg.—A "trade paper" for burglaries is now published in St. Petersburg. It is called the "Bostatska Gazette," or the "Barefooted Gazette"—the title being apparently an illusion to the stealthy ways of its readers. The paper contains full reports of the latest thefts and burglaries, articles by experts on the art of burguary and what to avoid in pursuing it, and columns of advice and hints to help the beginner. Naturally the paper is published in strict secrecy, but the police will sooner or later discover its printing office and suppress it. Parls Abates Nulsance The Paris prefect of police has decided that in future no more licenses to play barrel organs in that city will be granted. "DEVIL ANSE" IN VIRGINIA Former Feudist Visits "Cap" Hatfield, His Father. Richmond, Va.—"Devil Anse" Hatfield is once again in the mountains of West Virginia, after an absence of years. Nineteen years ago James Hatfield, Jr., better known as "Devil Anse," was recognized throughout the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky as one of the quickest and surest shots in the Hatfield faction, when he left West Virginia for the plains of Minnesota. "Devil Anse" is highly respected in the community in which he lives. Few in that section know of his past life or of the exploits of himself and his kinsmen in their family warfare. He is on a visit to his father, "Cap" Hatfield, leader of the Hatfield, leader of the Hatfield clan; who is 90 years of age and very feeble. After spending some time at his old home it is the purpose of "Devil Anse" to return to the wheatfields. "West Virginia is no longer like home to me." he says, "many lives were lost during the war between the two families. The Hatfield-McCoy fued, known throughout the world for the ferocity with which it was waged, started in Floyd County nearly forty years ago and extended over a dozen counties in the two States. Twenty years ago I grew tired of the eternal strife and blood-shed and went West." John McCoy was the head of the McCoy family, of which there were fifteen children. Only one survives. "Cap" Hatfield was the father of thirteen children, of which number eleven were killed, the only two now alive being "Devil Anse" and a girl. A mountain romance concerns itself with the McCoy who survived and the Hatfield girl. The two were about the same age. One day they met on a mountain trail. Later the little community in the hills was startled to learn that the two had eloped and that they had been married by a mountain preacher. This ended the feud. The couple are happy. They live in a pretty little wooded glen in the West Virginia hills, surrounded by growing boys and girls carrying in their veins the fused blood of the two old fighting families. At times the feud of former days reached such proportions that State troops had to be called out. The trouble affected even the cousins of the two sides. Innocent women and children were shot like rabbits in the fields. In one instance two members of one of the clans, both mere boys, were tied to trees and burned to death. GULLIBLES VISIT CHICAGO. Easily Victimized by Sharpers, Who Don't Half Try. Chicago.—The gullibility of some persons is past all comprehension. A party of visitors from the West once made up a purse of $15 to see the statue of Gen. U. S. Grant dismount from the stone horse at Lincoln Park. A Kansas farmer agreed to purchase the Federal Building for $3,080, securing his option with a cash payment of $147. Another man from down State paid a newly found friend $2.50 to see the Masonic Temple turn half way around. But a new bunco game was discovered this week when Harry Flicklesherer, of North Tonawanda, N. Y., kicked because two detectives refused to allow him to buy the "gold" on the tower of the Montgomery Ward Building. Ficklesherer had just completed negotiations for the purchase when Detective Russell and O'Brien costed him. ANNIVERSARY SYNDICATE. Three Sisters and Cousin Married on the Same Date. St. Louis. At the wedding of Miss Rena M. Elliott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Elliott, to Fred L. Dodge, of Sherman, Tex., at the home of the bride's parents, an unusual coincidence was discovered. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. M. Rhoads, a cousin of the bride. The date was the nineteenth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Tober and the twenty-third anniversary of Mrs. Thomas B. Ruyle, both women being sisters of the bride. It was also the thirtieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Bradshaw, cousins of the bride, and the birthday anniversary of Miss Elliott, also a sister of the bride, all of whom were present at the ceremony. Rev. Mr. Rhoads was also the officiating clergyman at the other weddings. KILLS SKUNK; GETS DAY OFF. Motorman Told to Soak Himself and Burn His Clothes. Tacoma.—On his way to work, and a little behind time, R. Hanson, motorman on the Tacoma street trolley line, coasted over a polecat on his bicycle and nearly caused a panic when he entered the lobby at the street car offices, where fifty men were waiting to go on duty. Hanson was given a twenty-four-hour vacation by the superintendent of the car lines and ordered to spend twenty hours of it in a bathtub and to burn his clothes and bury his bicycle. WILL NOT UNITE PHYSICALLY UNFIT Rev. Dr. H. S. Johnson's Strong Utterances on Subject of Ill-Advised Marriages. POVERTY MARRIAGES DISAPPROVED Boston Pastor Discourages Mating on Insufficient Earnings.—Those with Communicable Diseases, Inherited or Acquired, Should Remain Single. Boston, Mass.—"I will refuse to marry persons afflicted with consumption or any hereditary or communicable disease if I have personal knowledge of such ailments existing, and I am also opposed to marrying divorced people, except in the case of the innocent party." said Rev. Dr. Herbert S. Johnson, pastor of the Warren Avenue Baptist Church, in this city. "I do not think it advisable to marry young couples who are in poor circumstances. I believe, through observation and cc sultation, that a prospective bridegroom should have an earning capacity of at least $15 a week before he should consider the matrimonial venture. This statement, of course, does not apply in all cases, for there are always exceptions, but I think the union of persons in the middle class in this country, who are in poor circumstances, creates nothing but a hell on earth. "When I made the statement some time ago from the pulpit of my church that I would marry any couple that wanted to get married if they did not have the marriage fee, my remark was a facetious one, made half in jest and half in earnest, but I will gladly perform the ceremony for any unfortunate couple that might have sinned, free of cost, if they apply to me and give evidence of good faith. It is a pitiful sight in a large city to see a young girl carrying a babe on her arm without a husband to show his love, or a father to provide for her and her offspring. "I was, perhaps, led to make the statement that I would marry all such couples that applied to me through a case that came to me not long ago. Our church is so situated in the heart of the city that practicability is our chief aim. I became interested in a young girl who had slinned, and I appeared in court in her behalf. She was dressed in mourning and carried her babe on her arm. It developed that when her aged mother learned of the sin and disgrace of her daughter, she committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. And that is why i stand ready to help uplift the sinners that are making a struggle to live an upright and honorable life, and our church will assist them in every reasonable manner, such as finding employment for the husband, etc. "Now as to the marriage of young girls and fellows in meagre circumstances. There has been and is constantly being brought to my attention cases of hasty marriages when neither person is in a financial condition to warrant their marriage. Fifteen dollars a week is little enough to defray the expenses of a home with its furnishings, its doctor's and nurse's bills, the support of children and the mite, that should be given to charity by all Christians. Of course, when I place the weekly salary at $15 I refer only to the middle classes, that is Irish-Americans, or those of Anglo-Saxon extraction, and so forth. I don't refer to the lower class of people from Europe who can exist on much less. "And in regard to persons afflicted with tuberculosis or other diseases of a hereditary nature to which man and woman are subject, it is my belief that a man or woman unfortunate enough to be effected with communicable diseases should be unselfish enough when they are aware of these diseases existing to be content to merely love the man or woman and not ask one to have whole lives blasted. It is a terrible thing to have children born into this world with the taint of disease upon them. Yet there are a great many marriages in this country in the course of the year when one or the other of the contracting persons is a victim of some communicable sexual disease, and is the cause of much misery and the loss to the United States of millions of dollars. "I will not marry persons whom I know are afflicted thusly, and if there is any suspicion in my mind I will ask them frankly about the matter. A man should be as unselfish and sacrificing in such matters as the soldier or the fireman or the hundreds of other heroes, and it is their duty to humanity as well as to their country that they cast aside all thoughts of marriage when they know they are unfitted to become husbands and fathers. "I have steadfastly refused to marry divorced persons, unless in the cases of the innocent persons. There are innumerable cases of innocent persons being divorced through no fault of theirs and they should not be compelled to suffer for the sins of the guilty." AWAITED DEATH IN DESERT. AWAITED DEATH IN DESERT. Body of B. T. Pratt, Dead from Hunger and Thirst, Found in California. Los Angeles, Cal.—"Water, if I could only find water! I'm suffering terribly from hunger. To-day I ate some green brush, but I can't go any more. I wonder how long it will take to die." These enquiries in the notebook of B. T. Pratt, whose body was found on the desert in Inyo county by two prospectors, give pathetic evidence of the suffering the man underwent as he watched the approach of death far from human habitation. The diary also was found by G. W. Lewis and S. E. Shattuck, the prospectors while on a trip through the Argus Mountains in Inyo county. Pratt had been dead nearly two months. He was evidently trying to reach the mountains, where he knew he would find food of a sort and water in abundance, but within sight of his refuge he gave out and could go no further. Pratt was sixty years old. The entries in the notebook were scribbled and began only when the man found he was in danger of dying. "Food gave out to-day; guess I can make Argus," was the entry for August 3, seven days after he had started to cross the desert. "Water gone," told the story of the following day. For one whole day he went without water or food, but maintained an optimistic spirit, as is witnessed by the following entry for August 6: "Signs of water about half mile ahead. There will be green stuff there too. Will reach it early in the morning." But evidently the desert was playing tricks on him, as it so often does by means of a mirage. Two days later came the two entries quoted first. The last entry reads:— "I left Grapeville, Inyo county, Cal., July 28. Tom Spratt told me I would perish. I thought I could make it, 'but got lost, so guess I will have to give in. I have no water, nothing to eat and can't walk. I have brothers, C. H. Pratt, at Banner Springs, Wyandotte county, Kan.; E. B. Pratt, in St. Louis, and W. R. Pratt, Custer county, Wyoming." LONGEST AUTO FREIGHT LINE. Cars Will Carry 27 Passengers and 10 Tons of Freight. Spokane, Wash.—What is believed to be the longest automobile freight and passenger stage line on the continent is in operation between Oroville and Brewster in Okanogan County, Wash., connecting with a steamer line to Wenatchee. The line has two 60-hour power cars, which will carry twenty-seven passengers and ten tons of freight, making the run of eighty miles in eight hours. The trip by wagon occupies almost two days. Branch lines will also be established to other points in the Okanogan country. The other line is between Marcus and Kettle Falls in Stevens County, north of Spokakne, connecting with a steamer to Spokane Falls. These cars will be of twenty-five and thirty horse power, respectively. F. L. Barney has charge of the automobile line, while Capt. Bruce A. Griggs, a veteran river man, will operate the steamer line. HAS A RABBIT PLAGUE. Bold. Cottontails Destroy Crops on California Ranches. San Francisco, Cal.—Jack rabbits are said to be so numerous in the Antelope valley of California that the ranchmen are in despair. The animals are becoming so fierce that they are actually breaking down the fences around the adjacent fields and eating crops down to the roots. Not content with this, they are swarming into the desert towns and invading front yards of the dwellers. Citizens of Lancester turned out recently and made a round-up. They put up a fence across the road between fences surrounding fields on each side and in short time drove in and killed with clubs five hundred jack rabbits. EAGLE KILLS A SHARK. Ship's Crew Witness Desperate Fight in Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore.—A remarkable combat between a large eagle and a shark was witnessed recently by Captain Henderson and the crew of the steamer Tangler in Chesapeake Bay. When coming out of Occohnock Creek they saw the eagle dive and come to the surface with a shark. 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A OUR WHOLE STORE 1S BRIMFUL OF THE CHRIST- weatrnatt MAS SPIRIT. SEVEN FLOORS OF SPLENDID FURNI- ae ui TURE~RICH, ARTISTIC, US EFUL—IS HERE AWAITING . Bah THE HAPPY GIVER’S SELECTION. THERE ARE a i ENOUGH GIFT PIECES TO MAKE THOUSANDS OF SANGLI HOMES HAPPIER AND COZIER, WE WANT EVERY- Peat is. BODY TO COME HERE AND LOOK THROUGH OUR ee ING STORE. OUR CLERKS ARE COURTEOUS AND OBLIG- ey peor ING AND OUR BIG ESTABLISHMENT IS A VERITABLE RPG «CHRISTMAS STORE, ABOUNDING IN MAGNIFICENT RSS ey CCIFTS FOR THE HAPPY YULETIDE. e Wee ey «= THE ADVANTAGE OF CREDIT IS AN ADDED INCEN- Ma FA TIVE FOR BUYING HERE. OURSTORESERIVCE WILL Ed GS BE FOUND ESPECIALLY HELPFUL NOW. WE WILL VERY GLADLY HOLD ANY ARTICLE FOR LATER DE. . : LIVERY AND WE ADVISE YOU TO SHOP EARLY : WHILE OUR STOCKS ARE UNBROKEN AND RICH IN SUGGESTIVENESS. : CONVENIENT CREDIT TERMS ARRANGED . WHEN IN DOUBT BUY OF Cor. 7th and Eye Streets, N. W. = WO TENNESSEE ‘Tt WHISKIES | —They are of excellent quality and extremely del: icate taste. 8 yrs. old, $4 gal. $1 full qt 13 yrs. old, $5 gal., $1.25 full qt. CHRISTIAN XANDER'S Ril og 7th St. Pen MURRAY'S DRUG STORE. SECOND STREET, S. W. UP-TO-DATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR AS TO THE QUALITY OF OUR DRUGS— WHICH ARE STRICTLY FRESH. A) COMPLETE NEW LINE OF HOLIDAY GOODS. JUST THE THINGS FOR A! HOLI DAY GIFT, AT THE USUAL PRICES. W. MURRAY’S, - SECOND STREET. S. W LEGAL NOTICES. |GREGORY AND HORNER. ATTORNEYS. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS. TRICT OF COLUMBIA, HOLDING PROBATE COURT No. 15551, Administration This Is To Give Notice: That the’ subscriber, of the Dis trict of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District 0: | Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of Harry H. Hargraves, alias Wm. H. Hargraves’ late of the District of Columbia, deceased. AP Persons having: claims against the deceased are hereby warned to ex rhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 19th day of October, A. D. 1909; otherwise they may, by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this r2th day of November,-1908, . i H. D. Woodson, 18- Quincy Sty n, e, Wash. D, C. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. - Clerk of the Probate Court. Gregory & Horner, Attorntys. THOMAS WALKER, ATTORNEY IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. No, 27783. Equity Docket 6r. Charles G. Alexander et al., com- plainants, vs. Mary J. Johnson et al., defendants, . . The object of this suit is to have partition by sale of the west one-half (1-2) of lot nine (9) in block sev- enteen(17)in the Howard University subdivision of the farm of John A. Smith, known as “Effingham Place,” according to plat of said subdivision recorded in Liber District No. 1, at folio 76 1-2 and 77, of the Records of the Office of the Surveyor for ths District of Columbia. On motion of the complainant, i is this 17th day of November, 1908 ordered that the defendant, Willian Alfred Carter, cause his appearanct f be entered herein on or before th fortieth day, exclusive of Sunday: and. legal holidays, occurring after th day of the first publication of thi: order; otherwise the cause will proceeded with as in case of default Provided, a copy of this order Ix published once a week for three suc cessive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, agd the Washington Bee -before said day. Job Barnard, Justice | True Copy. Test. J. R. Young, Clerk. by F. E. Cunningham, Asst, Clerk "MARION T. CLINKSCALES, Altorney. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COT TIMRTA. COLUMBIA. No. 27152. Equity Docket, 60. Cornelius Clory, complainant, vs. Ro- sa Clory, respondent; James Edmund- son, alias John Edmundson, alias John Edmunds, corespondent. The object of this suit is to obtain le absolute divorce from the said Rosa Clory on the grounds of adul- tery. On motion of the complainant, i is this 18th dya of Noveruber, 1908 ordered that the co-defendant, Jame Edmundson, alias John Edmundson alias John Edmunds, cause his ap pearance to be entered herein on o \before the fortieth day, exclusive o Sundays and legal holidays, occur: ing after the day of the first put Iication of this order; otherwise th cause will be proceeded with as i -lcase of default. Provided, a cop of this order be -published once week for three successive weeks | ) the Washington Law Reporter ar the Washington Bee before said da Job Barnard, A True Copy. Justice. Test: ‘ |J. R. Young, Clerk, : By F. E. Cunningham, Assistant Clerk. . Edward E. Thomas. +" Edward P. Lynch WM. T. NEWMAN & CO., , Undertakers and Embalmers, 510 O Street Northwest. > Prices Moderate. Carriages for All Occasions. | The Wm, F. Newman & Co, wishes to announce to the public and its friends that they have opened a modern Funeral Parlor at the above address, and are prepared to render nothing but up- to-date service at “Moderate Prices.” We solicit your patronage and, thanking you for your tormer patronage, . .We are yours, . ~N WM, T. NEWMAN & CO., Undertakers and -Embalmers. Wm, T. Newman, formerly of Georgetown, D. c. oF JAMES H. HUDNELL. Mr. James H. Hudnell, one of the best known business men in this city has returned to Castle- berg’s National Jewelry Co., 935 Penne. Ave, N. W. Mr. Hudnell can always be relied upon to give you the genuine article. Now is the time to place your orders before the holidays. Phone. Main 2363. * Address 2009 gth street northwest. Cr Le Smee 4 RE ee a tia Ay Me iene se ee ee ee Rone RS tas EP = a3 ‘: Sa rie 8 EO See ce MM SCE AS ee te 7 re — - pele an 1 er CA nace ee Bcc TE __ ‘eee te bar apa Ba q pa ee 3 he or ee Bee a ee in Cs] ae 3 . bi e FO pee ar % ee ee Se eee ree See ss WERE SES ARS SEE a Fee Se a es RS ao gees = ee a _—- DR. MORSE’S DRUG STORE THE PALACE OF WEST END ; If you want fresh drugs and prescriptions. carefully compound-. da by competent cletks. patronize Dr. Morse’s Drug Store. j Toilet articles of every description; fine combs and brushes; domestic and imported extracts; domestic and imported cigars; fancy writing papér and envelopes, and everything that is needed will be found in this up-to-date drug. store. . Holiday Articles. = os Do you want a first class Christmas article. such as will be an ornament to your room? If so, call and inspect Dr.Morse’s drug store before you go elsewhere. Everything in the drug line will be found in this store. A new supply of Christmas goods are now on hand. ~ , Dr. J. W. Morse. 1904 L Street. Northwest. - Teel MEatinG Han SHAMPOO ee THEM AGIC DRIER. PTAA NM nanny i * ano HAIR:-STRAIGHTENER. Tiree HH iiss a MAILED suse muS $]22 SEND MONEY By POST OHACE MONEY ORDER, | Aaaress all tetters 10 2agic Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis. Minn Ti av couena roses, Mrs. Agnes Smith, 1308 L street, northwest, this city, is the agent. Call or send forthe Magic Shampoo ad Hair Straightener. 1308 L street/northwest, Washington, D. C. ‘om _ Elgin Creamery Company Telephone, Main 3148 ELGIN CREAMERY CO: Headquarters for BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY: CHEESE, COFFEE AND TEA. 220 Ninth Street N. W. | Washington, D. C. | Buy your~ Christmas Turkey from us at cost. To butter customers: Wm. Cannon GET THE BEST. Old Purissima Whiskey is a compound of pure grain and free from harmful impurities. Guar- anteed under the Pure Food and Drug Act, June 30, 1906. Sold by William Carmayy 1225 gth street, northwest. Phone. North, 528. e Louis J. Kessel, Imperter of ana Wholesale Dealer ja AND : = whiskies gate Owner of the..... a .+- Following Branose ate Stock,’ Old Reserve, ~ Bermit —- Oxford, | ‘rremoe || gs: TENTH SREET.IN. W. t *tetephone—Main—1€> SAN ANTONIO THE MECCA. Dr. G. JStarnes, a member of the recent International Congress on Tu- ‘berculosis, Washington, D. C., arid a specialist on al] lung and chest dis- eases, in addition to the use of Com- pound Oxygen, Compressed Air, and the Nebulizer, is using the best rem- edies introduced at that Congress, by the leading medical men of the pro- fession. He is located in San Antonio, Texas, the - designated by the World’s Medical Congress in 1896, as one of the best for people suffering .with any form of lung trouble. Address 324 W. Commerce Street. ES AAA ARE SE EA SAL SE BE Phone, Main 2524. 7 ROBERT ALLEN, BUFFET AND FAMILY 1917 14th WwW, THOMAS J. CALLOWAY, Attomey at Law. 494 Louisiana Avenue, Washington, D. C General Pracitce. Phone M 2404. Prompt and Careful Attention to All Matters. ‘TRY HIM. Tet. Lincoln 2969 SIGNORA ANNIE FAZZI . All kinds of hair cleaned Wigs, braids,pompadours, puffs, and curls madé to order, Sor East Capitol St., Wash, D.C. VELV-INE WILL GIVE YOU SMOOTH SILKEN TRESSES. THE MOST OBSTINATE HAIR YIELDS TO IT. KEEPS THE SCALP HEALTHY, PRE- VENTS DANDRUFF AND FALLING HAIR, EASY TO USE. SEND 25 CENTS FUR MONTH'S SUPPLY, PRE- |PAID TO ANY ADDRESS. M. MAYO—CIRCUIT ROAD. | —NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y eee Ee e dr Straight Y H i Dax Sras:—I have ased only ove bottle of pn Sr cerv'ana stretgnt had ‘comb aad also starts a aw growth Has Wik. Wartan, Sis f—farctinan, Teas, Ford’s Hair | Pomad omade Formerly known as Ozcalsed Ox Marrow! | Fy carat focorse haa peeve tes Worles ‘tae use of Ford's Hair Pocudemakee stub- Bora Thera Rinky oF curis-balr straight fmaay style desired cooslstent with {ta tecgth. ‘Removes apd prevents daodrof, invigorates Seb sera “Absolutely barmles#- used with spleadia re suits even on the yourgest chikiren Delicately perfumed, ite use {a a pleasure, at Indies of retnement evers where Geclare. ‘Fords Halr Pomede bas tmitators. “Doa’t bay anything else alleged to be “Just aa good.” If you want the best reaa.ts, buy the best Pomade—it will pay ou. Look for this name on every pockaes. é USeewe sth sendveg 17 Te win we Secbctlereguiarssefer = - - $50 Firstar ee 2 2 AG je UL zee Peper porta nee exproes charazy ttt lta Fores eG Senin ihe pene The Oxcnized Ox Marrow Ca, Feit nite rouane te made evita Ge ne OT Oe aes cated Eveeywhorm