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VOL.XXX NO1 Commencement Commencement PRESIDENT TAFT AT HOWARD Wednesday, May 26, was the banner day at Howard University. President Taft delivered the commencement address in the Rankin Chapel, which was inadequate to accommodate the concourse of people who had gathered there. The address to the assembly was greetee with great applause, and the diplomas were presented to the graduates by President Taft, at which time the walls of the Chapel reechoed the hearty applause. At the conclusion of the indoor exercises President Taft lead the way across the campus to the place where the library is being erected. The rain continued to fall while Mr. Taft delivered his second speech and superintended the laying of the corner stone. Secretary Ballinger, of the Interior Department, assisted. The music for the day's exercises with which President Taft was connected, was furnished by the United States Engineer Band. Among those who assisted Mr. Taft, were Captain Butt, military aid at the White House, President Thirkield, Rev. Charles Wood, Commissioner MacFarland, Rev. J. J. Himmel, and H. Paulus Sannon, Minister from Haiti. President Taft said: "Mr. President and young ladies and gentlemen of the graduating class: I have a good many engagements, and I am tempted into them sometimes—before the engagements are to be met and the work is to be done by such a mellifluous and forceful gentleman as your president, and then I am not reminded of the obligation thus assumed until I pick up the morning paper and find myself advanced as one of the chief attractions at some meeting where I don't feel myself at all as entitled to figure in that capacity. "When your president came to me and asked me to come to Howard University he said that he expected to celebrate the laying of the corner stone of a new building here, given by Mr. Carnegie, and that, incidentally, there would be commencement exercises. I am a fairly good hand at a trowel, and I thought possibly I might engage in the exercises of laying the corner stone without being involved in a speech. But I find it to be otherwise. Nevertheless, I am glad to seize the opportunity of looking into your faces—you young men and women who are about to go out into the world and meet the obstacles which are before you and to overcome them successfully, as I sincerely hope you may. I am glad to be able to be here to testify to you my profound sympathy in your careers and my hope that they may all be successful. This institution here is the partial repayment of a debt—only partial—to a race to which a government and the people of the United States are eternally indebted. They brought that race into this country against its will. They are planted here irretrievably. They first put it in bondage and then they kept it in ignorance that that bondage seemed to make necessary under the system then in vogue. Then they freed it and put upon it the responsibility of citizenship. Now, some sort of obligation follows that chain of facts with reference to the people who are responsible for what the government did. The obligation would be clearer, or rather the method of its discharge would be easier, were it not for our constitutional system which throws generally upon the States the burden of education and leaves to the general government only certain limited jurisdiction with respect to the people. Carrying out Obligation "However, in so far as the District of Columbia is concerned, and the establishment of institutions of learning in this District, we are free from any embarrassment with respect to the carrying out of the obligation, and it is fitting that the government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored men. I am far from saying—and I wish to put into this caveat in advance, in order not to be met by an argument which has weight, but has not weight when improperly used—that the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education. "I think they would be in a very bad way if they had, because they would not know how to use it, and they would not find means of using it. No race would be better off if they were all educated as university men. The great body of the colored race, as the great body of the white race, must depend for their livelihood upon their manual labor, skilled or unskilled, or upon some occupation which requires less education than that which is conferred by a university, and if it is too widely extended the effect of it is to put a lot of men into life who do not find occupations which are suited to their taste, and to make them unhappy and really not fit for the life which is before them. "On the other hand, the admission is far from a concession that it is not necessary for the success of the colored race that there be among them leaders of that race fitted by university education for that leadership. There is not any likelihood, with deterence to persons who occupy a different position, that either in the generosity of the general government or in the generosity of individuals who found colored colleges and universities, there is to be much of an opportunity given as is likely to lead too many colored men to acquire university education as compared with the number of colored men that there are in the community, and especially south of the Mason and Dixon line. "The opportunity that there is for educated colored men to aid their race in the struggle before them for economic success and the maintenance of themselves as worthy and valuable members of the community, the opportunity that there is for university men among colored men to assist in that movement, I say, is very great indeed. "Ladies and Gentlemen: I made my speech in the Chapel, and I am only here to contribute one step in the ceremony and the work of construction of this building, a library for a university. "A university without a library is really a very weak institution. I have no doubt that you have one, but it is well to have it in such proportion and with such facilities for study that those who are in the university may use the books there as fully and completely as possible. "I congratulate you, the alumni, the members and friends of this university, that private generosity has extended your university in this direction and given you such an instrument for its usefulness as will doubtless add greatly to the progress of the university." At the conclusion of the remarks by Mr. Taft, the corner stone was put in place and he applied several trowelfuls of mortar. After the stone had been firmly put in position President Taft left the platform. Miss Bessie Shippen has been appointed principal of the Broadneck Farm School to succeed the late Mr. John H. Smyth. THE NEGRO'S FRIEND We, the members of the National Colored Personal Liberty League, representing over 600,000 colored voters in the United States, with a large membership in Indiana, an organization that rendered valuable assistance to the cause of personal liberty in Indiana in the recent campaign, take great pleasure in presenting to the colored voters of Indiana and the entire country the Honorable John A. M. Adair, of Portland, Indiana, an account of whom follows. The Honorable John A. M. Adair is one of the most popular members in the Indiana delegation and is a true friend to the colored race. His speech on February 27, 1909, on the Brownsville bill speaks for itself, and although a Democrat, the Negro has no better friend than Mr. Adair. He believes in a square deal for every man, black or white. It was with some difficulty that Mr. Adair obtained the floor when the above named bill was under discussion. He was given time by the Republican WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., SAT Presid W. H. President Taft side and his speech was listened to with a marked degree of attention. The galleries were packed to the doors and some of the leading Negroes of the country were present on that day to hear the final decision in the Brownsville matter, and after Mr. Adair had concluded his speech it was all the doorkeepers in the galleries could do to prevent a spontaneous applause from the colored visitors in the galleries, and ever since that day Mr. Adair has made a great number of friends among the colored race, and we feel safe in saying that we voice the sentiments of every true and liberty loving colored voter not only in Indiana, but of the entire United States, when we say that it is our best wishes to see Mr. Adair elected to the United States Senate in the near future. We need just such broad minded western Democratic friends as Mr. Adair to aid the Negro in obtaining his just rights, and we also feel safe in saying that if the Negroes of this country will divide their votes from an intelligent standpoint it will be instrumental in solving this great and perplexing Negro problem. And, in conclusion, we wish to extend to Mr. Adair the most hearty congratulations and thanks of the National Colored Personal Liberty League for the bold stand that he has taken in the interest of the American Negro. THE GEORGIA STRIKE While the Georgia railway strike has been called off, thus permitting the resumption of traffic over the road, the cause of the trouble has not yet been removed. The status of the Negro firemen remains to be determined by later negotiations between the company and the union. This is an improvement in the situation, inasmuch as the issue can much more satisfactorily be met and disposed of while the traffic is being handled than during the stress of a strike. Upon the determination of this question of the Negro firemen's place in the road's affairs, depends much more than the welfare of the individuals immediately concerned. If the colored stokers are relegated to the inferior positions regardless of length of service, capacity or character, while white firemen are given their places, this order of things is likely to be followed on other roads, with the probable result of the gradual displacement of the black man from the railroad service. The economic effect of such a change is certain to be serious, in retarding the industrial evolution of the less fortunate race. "RICHARD HIMSELF AGAIN" After battling with "King Rhu," know to every civilized nation, the Editor has recovered sufficiently, with the aid of God, who rules the destinies of nations and souls of men, to assume charge of The Bee which has been handled and conducted so successfully by his wife, daughter and son, W. Calvin Chase, Jr., SATURDAY JUNE 5, 1909 How can we forget those friends, who have been legion, who have visited us. Those faithful friends never neglected for a moment to see that we were supplied with flowers and fruits of every character. The contest has been long and the suffering of the Editor great, yet he is retiring from the contest with an injured leg, stiff joints, but thank God, with a clear mind. "King Rhu," is master, and there is but one power that is able to release his grasp. He knows no man by the color of his skin or the curl of his hair: this grim monster enters your bed chamber while dreaming of things beyond. He attacks the baby in the cradle and defies the power of medical experts. He will permit those scientists to go so far and no further. The Editor has been under the care of able physicians and surgeons, Drs. Williston, Mitchell, Curtis and Warfield. While the trials of Job were constantly before us, and our pain most excruciating, at no time did we forget Him who inflicted and send "King Rhu," to remind us that God reigns supreme. It is indeed happy to one's mind, when he lay stricken and prostrate, to know that he has friends who think enough of him to bring tokens of esteem and appreciation. It is this kind of friendship that gives aid and comfort to the mind and flesh to the body. Again thanking his many friends and patrons, the Editor states that those who have had charge of The Bee have endeavored to keep it existing until he was able to again take charge. AT HARMONY The memorial exercises at Harmony cemetery today, were in charge of a committee of arrangements composed of R. D. Goodman, chairman; Charles H. Shorter, Colonel William H. Johnson, Major Arthur Brooks, Captain Charles M. Piper, Charles W. Hale, O. T. Slater, and J. H. B. Smallwood, with a committee on reception and invitation composed of Thomas West, chairman; Frederick Fowler, Charles W. Hale, Benjamin Young, Charles M. Shorter and O. T. Slater. Charles Sumner Post, No. 9, Grand Army of the Republic, under command of Frederick Fowler, assisted by R. G. Shaw's Regiment, No. 4., U. V. U., in command of William H. Johnson; Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas' Camp, No. 9, U. S. W. V., under Captain Charles S. Piper, conducted the services. The procession started from True Reformers' Hall at 9:30 o'clock this morning, headed by the First Separate Battalion, District of Columbia National Guard, Major Arthur Brooks commanding. At the cemetery the assembly was called to order by R. D. Goodman, the chairman. Professor J. T. Layton and choir sang "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and "America," and the Consequences invocation was delivered by Post Chaplain T. W. West. Lincoln's Gettysburg address was read by J. Fenwick Bush, followed by a recitation, "Mothers' Day," by Julia West Hamilton, a selection by the choir, and a memorial address by Rev. B. F. Watson of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. R. D. Goodman gave a reading and Mrs. Julia Layton delivered an address on the Woman's Relief Corps. "The Star Spangled Banner" was sung by the choir, benediction was pronounced by Chaplain West and "Taps" were sounded by the bugler. The floral committee was composed of Josephine Butler, president of Sumner W. R. C., No. 3, assisted by her staff and other members of the corps. 13TH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM You are Welcome Wednesday, May 26, 8 p. m.,—Department of Elocution. Wednesday, June 2nd, 8 p. m.,—Annual Band and Orchestra Concert. Thursday, June 3rd, 8. p. m.,—Piano and Vocal Musicale. Friday June 4th., 8. p. m.—Address to Literary Societies, Rev. Matt S. Jones, Fort Scott, Kansas. Sunday, June 6th, 3 p. m.—Baccalaureate Sermon, President William T. Vernon, A. M., LL. D. Monday, June 7th, Meeting of Alumni Association. Monday, June 7th, 8 p. m.—Address to Religious Societies, Dr. W. H. Peck, Kansas City, Missouri. Tuesday, June 8th, 10 a. m.—State Board Heeting. Tuesday, June 8th, 8 p. m.—Class Night Exercises. Thursday, June 10th, 2 p. m. Commencement Exercises. Address to Graduates by Honorable W. R. Stubbs, Governor of Kansas. Awarding of prizes. DISCUSS AMERICAN NEGRO New York.—A national conference in the interest of the American Negro was opened in the United Charities building in this city last Monday, by Professor Burt G. Wilder, of Cornell University, and Professors Livingston Farrand and E. R. Seligman and John Dewin of Columbia University. The conference was in session for two days. William Hayes Ward presided at the morning session and Judge Wendell P. Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, at a public meeting in Cooper Union at night. Professor Wilder, who is the author of a "Form of Bequest of the Brain" brought from Ithaca several brains, including those of an orang-outang and an eminent mathematician. With these exhibits as a basis the speaker made some interesting deductions. In an address before the conference, Professor Wilder said: "The brain of the average man negro seems to be about two ounces lighter than that of the average white man and probably there occurs more frequently than in the white man a less development of the prefrontal lobes; these two conditions render it likely that the whites will remain the dominant race. There are exceptions to the above general conditions of both kinds and among both races." A SUCCESSFUL RALLY The recent Rally at the First Baptist Church, West Washington, of which Rev. Edgar E. Ricks is pastor, was a grand success; $1,620,58 having been collected for payment on the bonded debt; the current and incidental expenses of the church being met by the weekly offerings. This speaks more eloquently than words of the ability of Rev. Ricks as an organizer and of the working congregation and liberal hearted members back of him. FREE! With every new subscription for one year in advance, The Bee will give a package of 100 visiting cards free. Don't fail to take advantage of this offer. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JUN 6 1909 PERIODICAL DIV. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Starr Hoyt Nichols, a broker of New York, committed suicide last Monday by taking choloroform in his apartments at the Royal Hotel in Hawaii. When ex-Sheriff J. F. Shipp and five codefendants in the contempt case before the United States Supreme Court, started for this city last Sunday from Chattanooga, Tennessee, over 2500 of Chattanooga's well known citizens gathered at the Central station. The funeral services of Dr. John W. Bischoff, known as the "Blind Organist of Washington," over the United States, who died last Sunday morning after a short illness, were held last Tuesday afternoon from the First Congregational Church where he had been organist for the past 35 years. An interesting event took place at the White House last Tuesday when President Taft opened the Yukon-Alaska Exposition at Seattle. He touthed a gold key which transmitted the electric spark that started the machinery in the exposition grounds. A large number of visitors inspected the work of the St. Johns College students on exhibition in the auditorium of that institution, Vermont Avenue, last Monday. The deaths from bubonic plague as reported from southern China, number fifty daily. A large and distinguished party left the city last Monday morning for Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to attend the ceremonies of dedicating the regular soldiers' monument. Dr. L. Duncan Buckley, of New York, who was a visitor this week at the home of John R. Early, alleged leper, after examining him for a second time thinks perhaps that he will not have to remain a prisoner for life. Cardinal Gibbons officiated at early Mass in St. Patrick's Church, last Sunday morning. The 34th annual commencement of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Normal, Alabama, was held from May 27th through to the 31st. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Circus was in town last Monday and Tuesday. The memorial exercises at Harmony cemetery last Monday were in charge of a committee of arrangements, of which R. D. Goodman was chairman. Rev. C. C. Alleyne, of this city, preached at Grace Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, last Sunday morning. KELLY MILLER From the Dallas Express Kelly Miller is the significant name of a new town site on the Trinity and Brazos Valley railway, in Freestone county, Texas, about eighty-seven miles south of the city of Dallas. It is named for the noted educator and agitator at Howard University, Washington, and is to be owned and operated by and for Afro-Americans. In the nature of things, considering all the surroundings, the effort to establish a town in this section to be manned and owned by colored people should meet with success unbounded. There are certain governmental ideas which should be developed, but before they can be developed they must be planted. There is a certain respect for law and order and governmental functions which mankind must sustain, but it must have a beginning. Under the peculiar conditions which are the lot of the present generation of colored folk these things can have no beginning in a mixed community in the south or, for that matter, in the north. The town site consists of ninety-three acres, having twenty-four blocks containing 312 lots, each block being 300 feet square. Its streets are sixty feet wide, with a fifteen foot alley in each block. Each lot will be 150 feet in depth, leaving a sidewalk of ten feet. The public square will be dedicated in memory of the noted Write Cuney, and it is hoped that the people of the state of Texas will erect a monument thereon in memory of this great man. OUR 30th YEAR Upon resuming Editorial charge of The Bee, this day, June 5th, The Bee enters upon its 30th year. O! but what a time we have experienced. Let us forget the past and think of the present, ad the future of the Negro in America. Some of us are doubtful as to the Negro's future. Some are doubtful as to the present and future policies of the administration. Why should we be? While the South wants to degenerate the colored American, seemingly, the future is bright and the President, while he may be misunderstood, is the black man's friend. His recent speech to the students of Howard University tells the entire story. The Bee, therefore, in the present, as well as in the future, will and shall do all in its power, to truthfully tell the story. It has no apologies to offer. It will support measures and principles and men who represent the fundamental principles of a good and pure government. The Bee continues to ask the patronage of the people and the Editor extends his thanks and gratitude to the retiring Editors of The Bee. · UNDER SUSPICION The most cowardly attack yet made upon the colored teachers in our public schools was made by an alleged correspondent in the New York Age, Saturday, May 29. Every teacher in our schools is placed under a cloud of suspicion. It is always the guilty that believe all others are guilty. The virtuous woman or the honest man has no suspicion of others. If this alleged correspondent is in possession of so many facts and knows of the immorality of certain teachers, The Bee challenges him to give the names of the teachers. This scavenger of information should first be convinced that he, himself, is clear before he attacks the morals of others. Our public schools contain some of the purest and some of the most moral teachers in the world. It is only the coward, that will attack when the innocent are asleep. It is only the blackguard and the guilty that will suspect others of immoral acts. Some mention by this alleged correspondent was made of changes in our schools. Yes, the same declaration was made when the colored people in this city had all they wanted and controlled to a great extent our local government. We all can see the result of a change in our local government. If a Negro can be appointed to a spittoon position without the power of Sampson, he is in luck. The "hay seed" and "billy goat" Negroes from the South, especially, are mostly responsible for the condition of affairs in our schools today. The white people of the South are wise in getting rid of the so-called smart and disturbing Negro --- IT RANG CLEAR WHOLESALE PRICES The Country Has Been Particularly Shocked by Them Recently—Four Happened Within a Period of a Few Weeks, in Which 700 Lives Were Lost War slays is thousands and peace its ten thousands. For the year 1906 the Interstate Commerce Commission reported the number of railway accidents in the United States as 108,324—a total greater than all the casualties of the Boer War, which lasted three years. The records of the Public Service Commission show that 155 people were killed by street cars, elevated, steam and subway trains in New York City in the three months ending November 30th, 1907, and that 500 more were seriously injured. These figures have attracted much attention but they do not prove that the railroads are sinners above all the industrial agencies of the country; on the contrary there are many more accidents in factories and in the building trades than on the railroads, but their vast total is not appreciated because it is the duty of the statistician to record them accurately. Only one State, New York has made any serious attempt to gather accurate figures relating to the loss of life by industrial accidents. On the basis of a report of the commissioner of labor, made a number of years ago, it is computed that the industrial accident rate in the factories of New York State reaches the appalling figures of 44 to 1,000, and that more than 232,000 factory employees are killed or injured every year in the United States Mining and railway casualties bring the total of slaughter, mutilation, and other injuries up to more than 524,000 cases annually—a record which makes that of any twelve-month in the history of war pale into insignificance. The entire losses, in killed and wounded in the Russo-Japanese War were 33,786. The country has been particularly shocked of late by the succession of coal mine disasters—Four within a period of a few weeks—in which about seven hundred lives were lost; and the recent exaction of this dreadful death-toll lends special interest to the report on coal-min accidents which has just been issued by the United States Geological Survey. This states that in the year 1906 nearly seven thousand men were killed or injured in the coal mines of the United States, and that the number of mine explosions has been steadily increasing. This increase is said to be due in part to the lack of properly enforcible safety regulations, which are insisted upon in European countries, particularly in France, where the accident death-rate among coal-miners is less than one to every thousand employed; the American ratio is 3 1-2 to 1,000, being three and one-half times that of Belgium and higher than that of either Prussia or Great Britain. One of the devices employed in German mines for the rescue of miners caught in suffocating gases consists of an air-tight mask fitting over eyes, nose and mouth and connected by tubes with reservoirs of oxygen. The amelioration of the horrors on peace should be regarded as equally important with the amelioration of the horrors of war. Some foreign philanthropists view it in this light, and not only have they induced employers and the governments of their respective countries to take action resulting in the installation of protective devices of many sorts, but they have established several museums in which the most improved of these devices are kept on exhibition for the benefit of employers and work people. A similar work has been undertaken in this country by the American Museum of Safety Devices and Industrial Hygiene, which maintains a permanent area exhibition at No. 231 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, where the management is demonstrating to employers the economy—to say nothing of the higher considerations—of insuring the safety of their work-people. Production of Gold. The production of gold in the United States during 1906 was $94,373,-800, as against $88,180,700 for 1905, a gain in 1906 of $6,193,100. The principal gain was in Alaska which amounted to $6,439,500. Nevada's gain in gold was $3,919,-500; Oregon's. $75,200; Arizona's. $55,800. The greatest loss in gold production by any State was in Colorado, where there was a decrease of $2,766,700. The Roman stock exchange attacked by a dynamite bomb is stated to have been located in the ancient temple of Neptune. In this country our stock operators do not have to seek the aid of Neptune. They can furnish all the water they want themselves. Massachusetts Pensely Populated. Massachusetts is the most densely populated State of the Union, having about 259 inhabitants per square mile. a FO ES . EST ESE meer ee Se a. 7 ‘y dd eee ee pa ee ee de bed A Ed re ee So ye ee re, 7 ee ee er IR ee = . - en SSS _—RsRkmknaeaee—w0—0esa0“_nN0@lfeew7w"="=_=_aere_eESEua{=z=x_=xz=xzqxqqqxqxz—q{q{&q{[}[q}[_—ee=_eeeeeeeeee | . | DKA E [| This Spendid Six-Piece Sct of W. H. 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They appealed to the State Supreme Court, then to the Court of Appeals, and lastly to tee United States Aupreme Court, ead en cach appeal they would cet B May, which made !t possible for them te contiuue running thelr toll ge and charging two cents a mile every herve er vehicle that passed ever their property. Becavce of the law's delay the eoaditien ef the roads became Im peasidte. The ewners of the turn- ‘pikes weuld met expend one ceat fer turyrovements as long as there wes question of their losing their propecty by 2 final court decision, Dat they 4/4 met cease to mulct trav- Gers All this while they refused te sccept the fair price offered 27 the Btate for their reads. Jt was then that the Nigat Riders were ergaaized. The ergentration apreed from Shelby County to every part of the Mate, and ene night in the late fall men rode from thelr bemes aad degen burning toll gates. ‘There ta no record of a toll rate Leeper being Injured untets he shew- od recistance. Then he was taker fram the heuse, and if he contiaued feo bo defiant he was forged. In ninety-aiae cases out of 2 hundred Who tale gate keeper was ciad to give ap bis fod and let the gate burm. ‘Wight Riders undoubtedly brougat tee Parupike corporations to terres. ‘Feere was not 2 toll gate left stund- fag in Che State of Keatucky by the feflowtng spring. Had the taxpey ore and farmers been contented to allew the lew to take its never ené- fag course the chances are that tel gates would still be holding wp tra- wellers on the State roads te-day, aad that the roads would have bees worwe now than they were when the Wigkt Riders became erganized. The Kentucky roads new ar gmong the best In the United States. ‘Pwere are not millions of dollars of watered stock on which to pay int. evest, and the State tax has Imprer- ed them szd even made it possible fer almost all of them to be spriz- Kied with off during the summer season, thus Jaying the dust. ‘The success of the Night Riders $a the war against toll gates led te am ergentsation of a similar char aster whea the fight was waged against the American Tobacco Con- pany. Bat out of this last organis- tion there grew a body ef violent maex, who Ive on excitement and thrive on lawhecsness. Then sprang Up, too, lawless bodies of men Ia many of the Southern and Middle Wectern Stétes, who chose to ga themselves Night Riders, though the } probabilities-are that 99 per coxt. of the men didn't own so much a2 & hese te ride. 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The price for the lot was $540, or aoout $9 each, The Telephone., If all the sell telephones made exch year were blended into a sin- gle instrument it would be nearly 300 miles hign and weigh 4,000 tons, Phonograph In Schools, In some Viennese 1chools a phono- graph which repeats speeches as re- cited by eminent actors has been in- troduced in order to teach the pa- Pils declamation, The Sailors Tobacco, Taree hundred tons of tobacco are distributea annually among the sall- ors of the British navy. It ts sold to them at cost. Postal Service in the Desert. A new monthly postal service across the Sanara has just been ea tablished. The messengers are mounted on camels. A Big Sawmill, ¢ Louslang has a steel sawraill with ‘a capacity of 600,000 reet m day, which {» said to be the -argest in the country. When terrified the ostrich will travel 25 miles an hour. —aw OS 4 ETO, Leag arem Ttunger and Thirst, Found ia Californias. * Las Angeles, Cal—“Water, « I could ealy Sind wateri I'm suffering terribly frees hunger. To-day I ate some green bruah, but I can’t go aay more. I yonder how leag ft will take to dia~ These ext..os in the notebook ef B. T. Pratt, whese body was found @u the desert 11 Inyo couaty by twe Droepectors, give pathetic evidence of the suffering the mam underwent as ho watched the approsca of death far from byman habitation. The diary also wax found by G. W. Lewis and 8. E. Shattuck, the preeyectors while on a trip through the Argu: Mountsins In Inyo county. Pratt had been dead nearly two months. Hr was evidently trying *. mach tha mountains, where he Anew be woult find food ef a sort and water im abundance, but within sight of his refuge he gave out and could go.my further. Pratt was sixty years old The entries In the toteboek were scribbled and begau only when the mar found he was tn danger of dy ing. “Food gave out to-day; geess > ean wake Argus,” was the eatry for August 3, seven days after he has started to cross the desert. “Water gene,” told the story ef the follow ing ay. Fer one whole day he went with eut water or food, but matatained am eptimistic spirit, as ts witnessed by the follewing entry for Augut 6: “Bigna of water about belf mile ahead. There will be groom stuf tuere too, Will ‘reach ft early im the morning.” But evidently the desort was playing tricks em him, as M so often dees by moans of a mir Se. Two days later came the twe entries quoted Srst. The lest entry reads: — . “I left Grapeville, Inyo eeuaty, Oal., July 38. Tom Spratt told ms I woutd perish. I thought I could wake ft, but got loat, se guess I will bave te give in. I have ae water, nothing to eat and can't walk T have brothers, C, H. Pratt, at Baa- mer Springs, Wyandotte esuaty, Kan.; EB. B. Pratt, in St. Leuls, and W. R. Pratt, Custer couaty, Wre ming.” LONGEST AUTO FRESGET LINE Cues Will Carry 27 Paeeegers axd 10 Tons of Fretg>t. RE. ence ele een Syekane, Wash —What ts belleved te be the longest automodile freight aad passenger stage line ox the con tment is im operation between Cre- ville and Brewster ia Obesegan Ceumty, Wash., conzectag wih 2 stoarsor line te Wenstcheo. ‘The Hue has twe $¢-heres pews” cays, which will carry tweaty-scven Dasaengers and ten teas of fraight, making the run ef elghty miles tz eight hours. The trip by wagon oo cupies almost two days. Braned Mines will also be established te ether points ‘In the Okascgau coum try. The ether line is between Mar ous and Kettle Falls in Stevens Geunty, north of Spokakee, ecanect ing with « steamer to Spokane Falls, ‘These ears will be of tweaty-fre aad thirty horse power, respectively. F. L. Barney has charge ef the auto- meohile line, while Capt. Brave A. Griggs, a veteran river man, will eperate the stoamer line. Jaa Wi James H. Winslow UNDERTAKER AND PRACTICAL‘ EMBALMER ALL WORK FIRST CLASS, TERMS MOST REASONABI * ; TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. PIONERAL DIRECTOR. - f Hiring, Levery and Sale Stable. : Carriages hired for funerals, perties, balls, receptions, etc. Horses and carriages kept in first-class style. Satisfuction guar anteed. Business at 1132 Third street northwest. Main office branch at 222 More street, Alexandria, -Va. . Telephone for Office, Maim 1797. it é Telephone call for Stable, Main 1428-5, - OUR STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY. Where I can accommodate 50 Horses, Call. and inspect our new and-modern stable, J. H. DABNEY, Prop., 1132 Third Street N. W. HAS A RABBE' PLAGUE. Wetd Cottomtails Bestroy Crops oa Californin Ranches. San Francisco, Cal.—Jack raabite are said to be so numereva fa the Antelope valley of Callforaia that the ranchmen are in despair, The aaimals are becoming so fierce t7at thoy are actually breaking down ths fences around the adjacent fields and eating crops down to the rects.. Not content with this, they are awarm- img into the desert towns and im veding froat yards of the dwellers. Citizens ef Laxcester turned owt recently aad mado a round-up. They put up a fence across the road be- tween fences surroundiag Selds oa each side and In short time drove fa aad killed with clubs fire hundred Jack rabbits. EAGLE KILIS A SHARK. Pe em We wee eee a ae in Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore.—A remarkable coup bat between a large eagle and & shark was witnessed recently by Captain Henderson ane ihe crew of the steamer Tangier ln Cassspeake Bay. “When coming out ef Oceohan- mock Creek they saw the caghe dive and come to the surface with a abark. Then followed 2 Serve struz gie, the shark pulling the eegte un- der the water until it wae aimed exhausted. The fish was fisaliy kil- Jed and floated dead om the water. Members of the steamer's crew Put of in a small beat and caytare’ fde eagle, although * dawed thes repeatedly and its mate, hovering @ose by, tried to attack them. e * e gg W.SidneyPittman e "se Architect RENDERING IN @ATENT DRAWHGB MONOTONE, WATER COLE BRARTING, DETAILING, TRACRe. AND PEN & INE * BLUE PRINTING STEEL CONSTRUCTION A SPECIALTY. Phone: Maia 6os9~M. Office 494 Louisiana Ave.,N.W Roveitais sro Office 494 Louisiana Ave.,N-V ~ Wm. Cannon, 1225 and, 1227 71b Street, N. W. | OLE{DISTRWUTER OF,OLD.PUR, SUM WHISKE Shot aa Albino Squirrel. Matqnette, Mich—While busiizg wear Graad Marals, Gustay Bepked? shot and Killed an albino seuizes? HK has been presented to Jame- Qairas, of Grand Marals, and wi d. mesnted. Albino deer are eemnslec aly Killed ia upper Michigan, bc. this ta the Srst time of wath tho: fa record that a white squirrel he been bagped . TUSR ELPHANTE. 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 tanks; they have miserable little grubbies projecting two or three inches from the upper jaw and inlining 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 deer antlers 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 froy.—Ceylon Manual. Brookelesn 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 food by electrocution is being experimented by Dr. Leden, 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 pairless, the central functions of perception being first destroyed and then tones of circulation and respiration so that there is neither suffering nor reaction in the animals thus killed. The doctor is endeavoring to devise a piece of apparatus by which the killing of cattle may be accomplished by electricity with economy and celestial. The Sky 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 ened. But he cannot. He has been brogged up to respect convention. His uncles may be of steel, his heart of iron, but in his soul the spirit of diffid holds him in a vice. In a drowning room he stands gaping, quakir a prey to introspective torment - who would perhaps storm as part with a triumphant mile in his line - London Observer. - Hearing Pictures Dangerous "Railroad casualties receive such wide publicity," said an insurance man, "that there is a common helpless on the part of the public that one is more liable to accidents while traveling than when living the simple life in the confines of his home. "It's 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 taken three men to move it from the giant book case in which it is stored in the library of the museum. It is found in caller, 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 227 miles long by eight miles broad, and comprises 1,000,000 acres of timber. Taking the average value of the 214d. per cable foot, this works out to £23 per acre, or a total value for the whole forest of £23,000,000—London Tit-Bits. Dead Historian. 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 out 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 stylish dressed is to wear something in which he looks atrociously bad; a woman's to wear something no other woman can duplicate. A Thousand Men Are Fed Every Night. THE BOWERY MISSION At this Place and at Fleischmann's May Be Found the Men in Actual Need—It is the Aim of These Places to Send Away No Hungry Person. The two policemen who were standing at the corner of Canal stree and the Bowery as I approach them locked me over when they saw ' was about to interrupt their conversation. It was anything but a pleasant night; the coat I had borrowed for the evening was none too truck, and the old shoes I wore were not waterproof. If my object poverty was assumed, I felt a semblance of the real thing, for I was cold and tired after trampling up and down the muddy streets for an hour. "Where kin a feller git a cup of coffee 'r a handout?" I asked. One of the officers smiled affably. "Two doors up," he said, indicating one of the numerous fire and tent cent feeding places, of which there are one or two in every block in this neighborhood. "I didn't mean that kind," I replied. "I've got to find a place where there isn't a price on the 'grub.'" "I guess the bread line at Fleischmann's or the Bowery Mission's the only place, then, Jack," said the officer as he turned his back on me. So I slouched along to 55 Bowery, where a sign in the window, reading, "Bowery Mission—Services Every Evening," indicated that I had found the right place. I looked in the door. The big room, filled with chairs, was dimly lighted, and on the platform at the far end, a man was moving some chairs around. "Nothin' doin' yet, bo," said a rough-looking fellow. "They don't give ye no grub until 1 o'clock." This was disheartening, or would have been, had I really needed the food, for it was only a little after eleven. "I'm goin' up ter the bakery," the tramp continued. "Ye git your at 12 sharp in there." 8 We ambled up the Bowery to Eighth street, and from there to Tenth street and Fourth avenue. Already the waiting line extended from the rear door of the bakery around the corner to the entrance of Grace church. I dropped into the procession which in a few moments reached up Broadway to Twelfth street. I had been in the line but a short time when a clock nearby sounded for midnight. The line began to move along and the waiting men on either side of me cheered up a bit. There was very little conversation, however. Now, and then some, of them muttered curses, and once when a sightseeing automobile stopped at the corner the curses became quite audible. After the line of waiting men—over 600 in number, as I ascertained—had had their bread and coffee, most of them dispersed, though a few "repeated" in order to get a second helping. A number of them hung around until they could get a chance to ask the manager of the restaurant for work. But there was no chance for any one, though the refusal was not made unpleasantly. From the bakery I went back to the Bowery Mission. A thousand men are fed every night at the Bowery Mission—sometimes more. It is the aim at both this place and at Fielschmann's to send no one away hungry, but just now the demand is much in excess of that usual at this time of year. One sees at these two places the men who are in actual need of food and drink. The street beggars are in nine cases out of ten unworthy of notice. But the man or woman who doubts the distress—the real need of food among the unemployed—should spend a couple of hours at the two places I have described, and he or she will be convinced that there is no lack of opportunity for the offices of the Good Samaritan, and no excessive crowding in the ranks of helpers of unfortunate humanity. Bronze Statne of Schiller. The bronze statue of Schiller by Hermann Matzen, which is to be enacted in Cleveland by German citizens, has been completed in Berlin. The poet is seated in an arm chair. A Berlin paper is quoted as, remarking apropos that "the German who goes to America becomes an American in all that the word implies, but even unto the third generation he is loyal to German poetry and German song." Good Roads Out of the 900 towns in the State of New York, 600 have voted to have their roads built under the Fuller-Plank Act, or, as it is genreally called, the money system. The matter is now optional with the towns, but in the opinion of persons who have given the matter considerable attention this idea of making it compulsory, is favored.—Good Roads Magazine. The Eraberg. Austria's from mountain, will furnish ore for 1,000 more years. 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 here 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 65 2-8 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 gacoma, 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 cocaline." "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 of 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. "Trades Paper" Contains All the News of the "Craft." St. Petersburg.—A "trade paper" for burglars is now published in St. Petersburg. It is called the "Bostaska 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. Parla Abates a Nuisance. The Paris prefect of police has decided that in future no more licenses to play barrel organs in that city will be mounted. MUNICIPALISTIC HOSPITAL 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., FIFTI and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C WORTH ADVERTISING FOR There are 5,499 Negroes employ Government alone, and these 5,499 $3,044,404. These more than three here in Washington, but scattered a. Is this amount of money worth but not even the largest stores in this end of it did they but realize howly spending. Now The Bee is the only Negro without a rival or competitor, and a few of the merchants in this city wumns of The Bee; presenting the a. these Negroes — these 5,499 Neg Government over three millions of ironizing a publication edited and op such firms desire and deserve their receive the bulk of these over threepent by the Negroes of Washington. What clothing stores, what furnish and what other lines of business with themselves these over three million Negroes by advertising in The Bee Place your advertising in The Bee tive Negroes spend their over three. Now is the time to advertise in into every Negro home in Washington, it's what advertising There are 5,499 Negroes employed here in Washington by the Government alone, and these 5,499 Negroes draw salaries aggregating $3,044,404. These more than three millions of dollars are spent right here in Washington, but scattered among the hundreds of tradesmen. Is this amount of money worth bidding for? It certainly is, and not even the largest stores in this city would refuse to get the big end of it did they but realize how much money the Negroes are really spending. Now The Bee is the only Negro publication in this city. It stands without a rival or competitor, and covers the field like a blanket. If a few of the merchants in this city will patronize the advertising columns of The Bee; presenting the attractive bargains they may have, these Negroes — these 5,499 Negroes who draw annually from the Government over three millions of dollars — will assume that by patronizing a publication edited and operated by one of their race that such firms desire and deserve their patronage. And such firms will receive the bulk of these over three millions of dollars received and spent by the Negroes of Washington. What clothing stores, what furniture stores, what dry goods stores and what other lines of business will now make an effort to divert to themselves these over three millions of dollars spent by Washington. Negroes by advertising in The Bee? Place your advertising in The Bee and watch these 5,499 appreciative Negroes spend their over three millions of dollars with you. Now is the time to advertise in The Bee, the newspaper that goes into every Negro home in Washington. Remember, merchants of Washington, it's what advertising pays you, not what it costs. DEATH TRAP FOR BIRDS. Lighthouses on the Maine Coast Attract and Kill Thousands. One of the keepers who came ashore from Boon Island recently tells the story of the strange death encountered by thousands of the migrating birds every spring. Flying along the coast at night they are instantly attracted by the powerful light from the watch tower, as moths are drawn to a candle. Thousands of these birds in their passage north fly with full force against the thick glass of the brilliantly lighted lantern. Stunned to death they fall to the rocks below or scale away for a little distance and flutter helplessly into the water. The light of morning sometimes reveals the rocks covered with the little creatures whose journey to their summer homes has met this sudden and fatal termination. Hundreds of species are found among the unfortunate little tourists. Most of them are easily recognized as belonging to the various common classes of song birds. But very often large birds of beautiful plumage come to their final resting place in this manner upon the bleak rocks, of Boon Island. On one occasion several years ago the thick glass of the lantern was shivered to atoms by the impact of some strange bird of powerful bill.—York Transcript. Fire Started by Moths. Moths and flames are universally connected, yet few people suspect that danger could arise therefrom. The insects are of such frail structure that generally they get destroyed before it is possible for them to inflict injury, and it is hardly creditable that the wings would ignite and retain the flames long enough to enable the moth to fly to its surroundings. That, however, has occurred. The moth was a very large one and its wings must have been very dry, so that when it floundered through the flame it set fire to one wing and darted out to a curtain nearby which at once flared up. It is possible that many summer evening fires in the country could be attributed to a source of this kind. It is notorious that mysterious fires often arise at sunset in the hot months.—Strand Magazine. As History Night Be Taught. Another way of teaching history which the schools might adopt has apparently not appealed to them. A good newspaper, if the teacher knows how to interpret its daily record, may stimulate an interest in history itself. If the pupil can be taught the continuity and relation of events, an awakened interest in the daily happenings will arouse a desire to trace them back through preceding stages. It is the break in continuity between the past and the immediate present that deeds enthusiasm. By studying history backward from the immediate present this chasm would be bridged and the passion for tracing to cause stimulated.—Boston Transcript. ed here in Washington by the Negroes draw salaries aggregating millions of dollars are spent right among the hundreds of tradesmen adding for? It certainly is, and city would refuse to get the big much money the Negroes are real publication in this city. It stands covers the field like a blanket. It will patronize the advertising col- attractive bargains they may have, troes who draw annually from the dollars — will assume that by pat- erated by one of their race that patronage. And such firms will millions of dollars received and on.iture stores, what dry goods stores I now make an effort to divert to as tf dollars spent by Washington? e and watch these 5,499 apprecia- millions of dollars with you. The Bee, the newspaper that goes to. Remember, merchants of pays you, not what it costs. Massachusetts has a town of 600 inhabitants which receives $2,670 annually from a single hotel for license to sell liquor. This is believed to be the highest licence fee paid in the United States. The fee is nearly double the amount paid in Boston and other large cities. The Fastidious Burglar Visitors at a Paris hotel were disagreeably surprised one morning to find that the-boots they had left outside their doors had been stolen by a burglar. Only one pair was left, on which was a paper with the words: "Not good enough for me." Value of Three Grains The Vienna Academy of Science has spent nearly $9,000 in working 10 tons of uranium ore for radium. The yield was three grains of pure radium, the largest amount ever secured at once, the value being $320,-000. Cure for Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness is often caused by the head being exposed to the cold, while the rest of the body is warm. In nine cases out of ten if the head is covered with a silk handkerchief, it will induce sleep. The population of the world is now estimated to be about 1,503,000,000. Of this number 150,000,000 are black, 600,000,000 yellow and 755,000,000 white. Mme. Davis. M. BORN CLAIRVOYANT AND CARD READER TELLS ABOUT BUSINESS. 1228 25th St. N.W., Washington, D. 6 Gives Luck to All. N. B.-No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. N. B.-Mention The Bee A High License Worlds Population. 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 tail. Theermine, as it is icorrectly 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 sluous leaping, were it not that the black tail tip is so conspicuous that it constantly attracts the eye and allows the pure whites 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 realise 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 These a Bird. A current newspaper item is as follows: "The wife of a Bornodist minister in West Virginia, has been married three times. Her maiden 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 Roblas, 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-aw, Eagleville, Canary Island, and the fellow who wrote this article is a lyza 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 60,080 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 mail 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 ells of turpentine and kerosene. Copperes 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 may 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 wood. They malt the odor as a woman malt a rose, and they eat the hot patties as a gourmet eats traction.—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. Lee Curtis Lace window curtains should always be soaked for an hour in cold water so which a little borax has been added, before being put into warm suds. This gets out the smoky smell that is sometimes so noticeable in curtains that have been used in a city. Every one who has travelled in Germany is familiar with the word "verbaten"—forbidden. He finds it is verbaten to almost everything which he thinks he has been accustomed to do in the United States. Chicago Standard. A Valuable Belt A thirteenth century copper and gilt silberium, supposed to have come from Malmesbury abbey, was sold by auction in London for $30,000. The Week in Society No better ice cream soda is served anywhere in the city than at the board and McGuire Pharmacy on 14th street. That is why the people crowd there. The regular annual excursion of the congregation and friends of St. Luke's Church, will take place on Wednesday, July 21st, 1909. Miss Kate Sheppard, of Baltimore, was a pleasant visitor to this city not long ago. Mrs. Bertie L. White, who has been visiting in this city has returned to her home in Richmond, Virginia. Mrs. J. B. Searless, who has been visiting in this city, has returned to her home in Philadelphia, well pleased. Dr J. E. Cabanniss, of New York, paid this city a flying visit last week. Mr. Iadius Banks, who has been visiting this city for some time, returned to his home in Hampton, Virginia, last week. Miss Essie T Rust, who has been attending Howard University, has returned to her home in Wilmington, Del. A ten thousand dollar Rally and Lecture will be held Thursday, June 10, at the Cosmopolitan Temple Baptist Church, Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, Pastor, by the Cosmopolitan Literary and Historical Association. Mr M L. Walker, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was a visitor to this city this week, en route to Boston. Take your prescriptions to the drug store of Board and McGuire, 1912 24th streets, northwest, and they will be filled just as the doctor ordered, and at the right price for the best drugs. Mrs. Evelyn Carter, P street, northwest, departed this life after a lingering illness of seevral months, on Saturday afternoon, May 29. The funeral services were held at the Fifteenth Presbyterian Church, on Tuesday June 1, Rev. Grimke officiating. The deceased leaves a loving husband, several children, and a sister, Mrs. Rogers, of New York, to mourn her loss. Dr Carroll Brooks has been appointed as second surgeon-in-chief at Freedman's Hospital. The commencement exercises of the Ferguson and Williams Normal and Polytechnic College were held in the college building, Abbeville, South Carolina, during the past week. They were of the usual high stan- They were of the usual high standard and altogether successful. The President, Rev. E. W. Williams and wife, principal of the school, with their little daughter Marian, are in the city, the guest of the Misses Chase. The Second Baptist Church, on 3rd street, northwest, wish to announce their grand June Rally which will take place tomorrow. There will be special music by the senior choir in the morning, also by the junior choir at night. Rev. W Bishop Johnson, pastor; spencer Adams, Chairman of Deacon Board, Alexander Hicks, Chairman of Trustee Board, and Miss Theresa Braxton, organist. REV. RAY Rev W. A. Ray, of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopalion Church, carried one of the best sports to the Williamsport Conference that has ever been sent from his church. He and his wife left for Texas last Tuesday night to be gone two weeks. FROM ABBEVILLE Rev Emory W. Williams, accompanied by his most accomplished wife Mrs. Ella V. Chase Williams, and their daughter, Miss Marian, arrived in the city from Abbeville, South Carolina, Saturday morning and are the guests of the Misses Chase, 1109 ave street, northwest. Rev and Mrs. Williams had a very successful closing of their school this CHEAPEST JOB PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. 1212·FLA·AVE·N·W FREE OFFER-ONE HUNDRED VISITING CARDS WITH EVERY ORDER OF TWO DOLLARS OR MORE. KnowTheFuture and write to MADAME LOUISA, SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGER and PHYSIOLOGIST. 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This is an interesting cycle of events, but the performance of a cycle implies a force and the motive power of these alternate and great synthetical and analytical processes is light. It may happen, therefore, that a horrible struggle for existence between plants and animals might ensue if for any considerable period the sun was shut out from the world, for then this agreeable interchange of mutually advantageous exhalation would cease and with it all life. Were those who worshiped the sun ignorant of these things? or did they realize that it was the source of both food and air?" tion of the state of South Carolina. Returning with Rev. and Mrs. Williams will be, the two daughters, Misses Ada and Virginia Williams, who recently graduated from Howard University with such honors that President Thirkield personally complimented them in open chapel. Full particulars will appear in our advertising columns. River View Park has been selected, but a subsequent excursion will be given either to Somerset Beach or to Washington Park, as the friends and patrons of the church may elect. HER ANNIVERSARY On last Thursday, Miss Theresa B. Braxton, the youngest colored organist of the city, had the pleasure of announcing her second anniversary as organist of the Second Baptist Church on 3rd street, Northwest, Rev, W. Bishop Johnson, Pastor. During that time she has been absent from her post only two Sundays and that was on account of sickness. She is greatly beloved by the people of the congregation and considered the best organist they have had for many years. All hope she will remain at her present post many more years. One thing to say is that she is very prompt and her friends wish her many more years of good success, as she has been an organist for five years, and hope to see her some day one of the greatest organists of the city. DEATH'S HAND Moore, On Friday, May 28, 1909, at Florence, Alabama, Mrs. Rebecca Moore, wife the late Henry Moore and mother of Professor Lewis B. Moore, of Howard University, in her eighty-fourth year. Bischoff. On-Sunday, May 30, 1909, John W. Bischoff, aged fifty-eight years. Funeral from First Congregational church, 10th and G streets, northwest, on Tuesday, June 1, at 3 p. m. Interment at Rock Creek cemetery. OUR DEPENDENCE ON VEGETABLES From the Literary Digest The distinction generally drawn between animal and vegetable food is apt to blind us to the fact that plants are, at bottom, the source of all nutriment, and that if they were to cease to grow mankind would starve. Says a writer in the Lancet, (London): "The modern chemist points proudly to his synthetic triumphs, but with all his skill and knowledge he has not yet succeeded in preparing in practical quantities for his fellow men a foodstuff from its elements. The synthetic processes of the plant are so far inimitable, and the plant is after all both the direct and indirect food of the animal. The relations between plants and animals form a beautiful dispensation, and for the vegetable kingdom man should hold a deep reverence and do his best to extend and promote its faithful offices. Whether his views are in favor of the exclusive diet of vegetable or of a diet containing both animal and vegetable products, he owes the vegetable world more than one debt. He is at the mercy of the vegetable for his food, whether it be animal or vegetable, and he may be at the mercy of the vegetable for a supply of oxygen, without which the vital processes of his organism could not be sustained. It is thus conceivable that as the animal kingdom exists [Picture of a woman with a hand on her face]. 1712 Montrose Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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"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-MoCoy 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 cloped 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 tled to trees and burned to death. GULLIDLES 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 $3,060, 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 Ficklesherer, 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 Detectives Russell and O'Brien acosted 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. I 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. Excursion Season For 1909 Steamer River Queen to Washington Park. Steamer Jane Moseley to Norfolk, Baltimore, and Landings down the Potomac River. Books now open for charter on the River Queen and Jane Moseley. Secure your Jates at once, before they are all taken. THE NEW YORKER WASHINGTON PARK This beautiful park has a collection of attractions not offered to the Washington public. It is located about 10 miles from Washington on the Potomac River. The Scenic with its electric power plant for 7,000 lights—a Figure Caroussel, double-decker, with music attachments. A Cent Theater. A Penny Arcadium, Moving Pictures, Gallery. A Dairy Lunch Depot and Buffet. Dancing Pool and Billiard Hall, and forty acres of Shady Woods. The River Queen makes daily trips to Washington I. a. m., 12 m., and 2, 4, 6, and 8 p. m. For particulars address Lewis Jefferson, General Manager, tenth and N Streets Wharf. Columbia Ice Company COLUMBIA ICE COMPANY COAL AND W Prompt delivery made to all parts of the city, by or postal card. John E. McGaw, President and General Manager. Joseph T. Peake, Secretary and Treasurer. 10th Street Wharf, southwest. Phone, section of attractions never before c. It is located about ten miles ac River. 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Odessa.—Peter Kavullitch, an Austrian mason, went mad here as the result of brooding over being forced to wall up the daughter of the chieftain of a Tartar tribe in the Caucasus as a living tomb. He was kidnapped in Baku a month ago, taken blindfolded into the mountains, compelled to build the wall around the girl and then was turned loose outside Baku. For a week he led a party of soldiers in a vain attempt to find the girl. The girl was condemned to death in the tomb because she eloped with one of her father's servants. She was engaged to the son of a wealthy Tartar, and all preparations had been made for the wedding. She was caught with the servant after a two days' chase, and was tried at a family council. It was decided to build a wall around her and leave her to her fate. Kavulitch was kidnapped, and he was taken into the mountains to find the whole tribe drawn up to witness the living burial of the girl. The man protected against the work, but his life was threatened unless he obeyed. The girl was tied hand and foot to a stake. She implored mercy, but her cries were unbeeded. A circle was drawn around her, and the mason was made to follow it with a wall two feet thick. The wall was raised a foot above the victim's head, and a small opening was made for air, so that her sufferings might be prolonged. As soon as his work was finished Kavulitch was blindfolded again. He was set at liberty with 100 roubles in his wicket. He came to Odessa and went mad in the street. He was taken to a hospital in a straitjacket. A LOAF OF BREAD PUT IN TWO COFFINS. Half Buried with Wife, Husband's Grave Now Contains Other Part. Brooklyn.—Adolph Raad, who formerly lived at No. 110 Luquer street, was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, the coffin containing one-half of a loaf of rye bread, the other half of which had been buried with Mrs. Raad four years ago. The aged couple were born in Ludenbach, Germany. They purchased a farm in what is now Flatbush, and as the city gradually encroached upon their farm land they cut it up and sold it until they were soon able to retire comfortably. There is an old German custom of making a wish whenever a fresh loaf of bread is cut. On September 7, 1904, Mrs. Raad had just made, the customary wish, and was about to cut a loaf when she dropped dead. The husband cut the loaf and put half in his wife's coffin. The other half was preserved in a tin box, the neighbors having been instructed to put it in his coffin. FORTUNE FOR FAMILY SWINDLED MAN. Restitution Puts Impoverished Widow and Children in Affluence. Galveston, Tex. — Mrs. George Overton and family of two sons and two daughters who have been eking out an existence on a small farm near Fort Lancaster, in Crockett County, have been presented with a thousand-acre ranch in Edward County, well stocked with cattle and $10,000 in cash by a former partner of the husband and father of the Overtons. George Overton, who died five years ago, was once a wealthy cattleman of West Texas, but entered into a mining project with a man who swindled him out of his wealth and lands. The partner disappeared fifteen years ago and went to Mexico, where he amassed wealth in mining and returned to make restitution. FIRST SEA VOYAGE. Discovery Shows It to Have Been 24 000 Years Before Solomon. Chicago.—Prof. James S. Breasted of the University of Chicago, announced his discovery in Sicily of a portion of a tablet covered with inscriptions, showing that Solomon did not make the first sea voyages. He says that the translation shows that the builder of the first pyramid made a journey with forty ships across the Mediterranean to Lebanon for cedar. This, he says, was two thousand years before Solomon's time. Long Branch, N. J.—Nellie Case, a servant in the home of Mrs. Oliver Byron, discovered a nickel imbedded in the backbone of a butterfly while preparing the fish for the Monday meal. The fish was bought at the market of Capt. John Hennessey. Capt. Hennessey was unable to explain the finding of the coin in the bone of the fish. He is confident, however, that the fish must have swallowed it. Laseo Saved Man From Abyss. Hap Francisco, Cal.—Lasasoed at the brink of a steep precipice, A. L. Banks of Philadelphia owes his life to William Rogers of New York city. With Robert Shea of New York, and James Archer of London, Banks and Rogers were riding in the mountains, when Banks's horse slipped. To save himself Banks grasped a bush. Rogers swung his rope and caught bunks around the waist. VICTIM TELLS HOW LOCKJAW FELT Doctor was Worried When His Face Began to Stiffen—Fought Disease St. Louis.—Dr. F. W. Grundmann of Washington avenue, who was pronounced out of danger from lock-jaw, after suffering for almost three weeks, described how he felt during his illness. "In diagnosing my own symptoms a week after the germs of tetanus had entered my blood, I thought I had the disease, but I was not sure," said Dr. Grundmann. "One day, as I was stepping off a street car, it started permanently and throw me on my knee on the street. A hole was ripped in my trousers, and a gash cut in the flesh of my knee, into which earth from the street was ground. "It gave me no trouble, pained me very little and I gave it no further thought. About a week later I found that I had fever and that the muscles of my neck pained me and were constricted. Next I observed spasmodic jerking of the limbs. These I knew to be premonitory symptoms of lockjaw. "I was alarmed, naturally, but thought perhaps I might be mistaken, so I visited a physician and told him how I felt. He did not think seriously of the matter, and I believed I might have been mistaken, but nevertheless I was worried, and when that night the symptoms grew more pronounced and became more perceptible I watched them all the more closely. "That night I got a real shock. I observed a growing rigidity of the muscles of the jaws. If it kept on they would become locked beyond all hope of unlocking them. "In one day I had 6,000 units, about a fluid ounce, of the serum injected. My jaws continued slowly to grow more rigid, but we fought the disease with the serum until at last we saw that we had the disease going the other way, and we fought it out. "The germs of tetanus may be in any manner of dirt. If you have a wound in your finger and go out into the garden and stick it into the fresh earth you stand a chance of getting lockjaw." RELIGION CAUSES NERVE CURES IN EVERY CASE. Rev. Dr. McWilliams of Cleveland Says No Case Has Been a Failure. Cleveland.—The Rev. Dr. I. S. McWilliams, pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, this city, made public a statement, in which he declared that for several months he has had success in healing both the body and mind by religious influence. He set forth that he has wrought cures of serious nervous ailments and dipsomania. In not a single case, it was said, has there been failure. "I have wonderfully expanded my sphere of pastoral work by the use of religious therapeutics," said Dr. McWilliams. "I do not pretend to be a faith healer. Instead, I merely try to make the patient know the power of his mind. I have told all the sufferers who have come to me about the sub-conscious mind. I have told him this mind is a reservoir upon which he may draw. I lead the patient to see he has been battling against disease with only a fraction of his force. "I have found that the patient best can reach the sub-conscious mind when the conscious mind is passive and quiescent. I instruct the patient how to relax those muscles which have been drawn like the strings of an overtuned violin. When the sub-conscious mind is reached I suggest ideas to work against the disease. I would not dare to say I myself know all about this method of treatment; what I do know is that it has wrought cures in every instance. The one man who was difficult was a drunkard. I treated him twice before going on my vacation, and I have heard he has taken only two glasses of beer since." A BUFFER STRIP. Victoria Government Sets Aside Land Along American Boundary. Victoria, B. C.—The provincial government has set aside a strip of land sixty feet wide along the international boundary line, which will not be available for pre-emption and on which a permanent reserve, extending to all mining rights, will be placed. This follows an arrangement with the United States government by the British Ambassador at Washington. 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TO LET Two nicely furnished rooms for gentlemen, 1742 14th street; also one large room for rent to persons desiring to bring their friends for a pleasant evening. For further information, all N 864, or address A. H. Underdown. 1742 14th street.