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THE BEE WASHINGTON VOL.XXXI.NO.28 WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY DECEMBER 19, 1819 Booker T. Washi gton NEGRO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. An Open Letter From Booker T. Washington, of the Tuskegee Institute-An Appeal for the Negro Child. To the Editor of The Bee: Through the medium of your valued newspaper I desire to say a word to the colored people regarding the importance of good public schools. It has been some months since I have had anything to say on this important subject. I wish to repeat that which I have tried to emphasize from time to time, that there are few, if any, subjects which are of more vital and far-reaching importance to the masses of our race in the South at the present time than that of building up a good public school system. Only a very small per cent of our people can ever go to a large boarding school, or any kind of college, or industrial school, for their education. The masses must depend upon the public schools in their neighborhood for whatever education they get. If the public school is a failure the masses grow up in ignorance, and so I am making this direct appeal to every minister, teacher and business man and woman throughout the South to take a personal and deep interest in the condition of the Negro public schools. First of all, we should bear in mind that we are American citizens and that we should have our rightful share of the public school fund. Where we are not getting our just share of the public school fund, a direct appeal should be made to the public school authorities for a more just distribution of the public school funds. This kind of appeal should be repeated again and again until we do receive our just share. We should not give up or stand still in cases where the public school authorities are not willing or unable to give more money. It will be no excuse to the future generation of children, if they grow up in ignorance, to tell them that they might have been educated if the public school authorities had done their duty. In traveling through the South, I have observed that wherever a good public school house is provided, in most cases, the result is that that community will have a good teacher and a school term of respectable length. I advise, then, that every community set to work to secure either through the public fund or from private gifts in that community a good public school building. In many cases, where people are not able to give money toward the erection of a good school house, they can give the use of their teams to haul lumber, or they can give material, or give without charge so many days' work each week, but in some way, every community that is now without a comfortable school house should set to work to secure one. In many cases, the school houses in which the children are taught are not fit for pigs to live in. The roofs leak, the floors are full of holes, there is no stove, and in many cases the benches and other furniture are so rude and worthless that it is impossible for teacher and children to stay in such houses without being in continual misery. A school house is not completed until it has been either painted or whitewashed on the inside and outside; neither is a school house complete until it has been ceiled or plastered on the inside, and every school house should be thoroughly furnished with good seats, a teacher's desk, good blackboards, etc., before it should be considered completed. It is almost as cheap to build a good school house as it is to build a poor one. If every community will organize and come together, with the direct object of providing a good school house, I am safe in saying I believe that before the present school year passes a large number of communities will have good, first-class school houses. I also advise that an architectural plan be drawn, wherever possible, for these school houses. In many cases, a good deal of money is practically thrown away in the erection of a building, because no plans have been drawn. Aside from the building being almost useless, when a plan is not drawn it does not usually present a good appearance. I shall hope to hear, as a result of this letter, that a large number of communities throughout the South have erected school houses. One other thing: My travels through the South convince me that the public schools for our race are often crippled and weakened by reason of the fact that denominational jealousies and rivalry enter into the public school system. It should be understood in every community that the public school must be separated wholly from church influences. In some communities, the public school system is weakened because the Baptist element want a Baptist teacher, the African Methodist element want an African Methodist teacher, and the Zion Methodists want a Zion Methodist teacher. This kind of contention and jealousy is all nonsense and results only in weakening the public schools. In some communities, the people are now trying to support three little weak schools, with three different teachers, representing so many church denominations, when the people in the community should have one good, strong public school, regardless of denomination. In some cases, there are three little public schools lasting only three months in the year, when, if the people were united, they might have one good pub- Inc school lasting seven or eight months in the year. In public school education there is no Baptist arithmetic, or Methodist arithmetic, or anything of the kind. What the people want are good, sensible, moral, upright; Christian teachers, regardless of the church to which they belong. There are other matters in connection with the public schools of the South, to which I shall hope to call attention soon through another letter. (Signed) Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Dec. 5, 1910. GOOD ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG. Judge DeLacy Invites Young Couples to Sessions—Would Teach Forbearance—Head of Juvenile Tribunal Declares Examples of Domestic Brutality Would Cause Youth and Girl to Understand and Overlook Small Faults of Each Other. "Homes Like Cities." "A home is like a city, and, like a city, its good government is achieved by experience. Therefore, the young man and the girl who contemplate matrimony should consider wisely the step they are to take before it is taken." From Judge William A. DeLacy, of the Juvenile Court, came this opinion Sunday afternoon in support of his idea that the unmarried men and women of Washington should visit his court for a month before they wed. While some of the revelations of the court might shock at first, he believes they would enlarge the ideas of young couples, and in this way would prepare them for a life of mutual forbearance. After hearing of husbands who are continuously intoxicated, Judge DeLacy argued, and of wives whose ideas of home resemble those of an English sparrow, young men and budding women would be willing to accept trifling faults and forget them. "in the early days of wedded life," continued Judge DeLacy, "both the man and the girl find little faults, the existence of which they did not suspect during the sweet days of the engagement. The wife learns that the husband smokes before breakfast, and the husband learns that his wife cannot cook, or has developed the habit of leaving the solid plane of gastronomy for the uncertain heights of occult science. Girls Must Be Cooks "I believe that a girl who cannot cook bread has not yet attained her education. She should learn. The man who is accustomed to grow when the steak is not to his liking also has much to learn. And these are the lessons that the Juvenile 7-BEE Court—the realm of things as they might have been—will teach. "Inexperience has always had a fondness for its own wisdom, and the girl and man who have known nothing of unhappiness cannot understand what the word is. They do not know that over the gloss of all things there is the keen capacity to suffer. Their married life—his and hers—is always the married life that will instruct all the world; will teach what 'the idealism of the home' means. "I would not for the world disturb the peace of innocence, but I would awaken ignorance and point out the pitfalls that its blindness has mistaken for level places. Let the young man and the girl who are engaged come to the Juvenile Court for a week, as they would to a school, where they will learn a few of the rough but needful lessons of the world. Where Education Would Help "Iimagine the young man, hopelessly devoted to a certain girl, beholding the wrecks of happiness that I have seen. A woman, demanding a weekly stipend from her husband, would appear in court, wearing a black eye where he had struck her a week or more before. The young man learns that her husband, like himself, was once devoted. He hears of the little things, the pitiful little things, that soon become so big, breaking the ties of affection, until there is the crash, the separation, and unhappiness. "Or the girl. Worried about John's cigarette smoking, she visits the court and hears of brutal husbands, of shiftless men whose wives must toil for the children and for themselves. She learns that cigarette smoking is not the greatest evil in the world. "Don't you think that the education would help? Don't you think that the young man and the girl, learning without experience, by the unhappiness of others, would be all the more anxious to avoid what they have seen? I think so." Dedication of Science Hall. The dedication of the new Science Hall at Howard University will take place on Dec. 13 at 3:30 p.m. m. The principal addresses will be given by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Treaching; Dr. William H. Welch, of John Hopkins University, President of the American Association of Medical Colleges, and Dr. Boocher T. Washington, Principal of Tuskegee Institute. The Secretary of the Interior will also take part, and the building will be formally received by Mr. Justice Job Barnard, President of the Board of Trustees. Music will be furnished by the vested choir of 50 voices, and by the University orchestra and the University band. The Science Hall has been in use since the opening of the fall term, and nearly 600 students are now receiving regular instruction in the departments of chemistry, physics and biology, indi- COPYRIGHT CLINESINGER WASHINGTON, D. D. cating the eager response of the student body to the enlarged facilities for work in the modern sciences now offered in the University. Among recent visitors have been Lord Eustace Percy and Secretary Radford, of the British Embassy, both of whom made addresses. The November number of the University Record is just from the press and contains the address of Bishop Charles H. Brent, of the Philippines; the formal opening address by Dr. Elmer E. Brown, United States Commissioner of Education; an article on "President Taft and University training for the Negro," and the alumni address of Prof. D. O. E. Holmes. It will be mailed to those interested on application. The Hon. John W. Foster, ex-Secretary of State, will deliver the address at the annual meeting in the interests of peace and arbitration under the auspices of the Lake Mohok Conference, on Sunday, Dec. 11. The University football team, in its series of victories this year over the teams of Lincoln University, Hampton, Shaw and Tuskegee, has again established its championship over the teams of all the colored universities in America. THE ELKS COLUMBIA LODGE OF ELKS HONORS ITS DEAD. Hundreds Turned Away—Howard Theater Crowded—A Representative Audience Present—The Howard Orchestra Does Honor to the Occasion; The new Howard Theater was taxed to its utmost capacity last Sunday evening. Every available space was occupied, and hundreds were turned away because they could not gain admittance. The theater was brilliantly illuminated by electric lights. At the northeast corner of the stage was arranged on an inclined staff the number of those who had passed away. In 1907, R. D. Griffin, C. D. Whitfield and Joseph Harris, C. S. E. Brooks and Reuben Hill, in 1908; Lewis Reed, Reuben Hill and George Hamilton, in 1909, and Henry Harriston, in 1910. There were many well-known members of the Order present, including specially-invited guests, seated upon President Thirkield, during the Thanksgiving recess, delivered addresses before the Philadelphia Ministers' Meeting, the Y. M. C. A. at Atlantic City, and the Cheney Industrial School, near Philadelphia. LARGE AND INTERESTING Memorial Exercises, Morning Star Lodge, No. 40, I. B. P. O. Elks of the World. Possibly one of the most brilliant affairs ever held in the city of Washington was the memorial exercises of Morning Star Lodge, No. 40, I. B. P. O. E., at the New Auditorium, Sunday night, Dec. 4, 1910. The main hall was beautifully decorated and filled to its utmost capacity, several hundred people being turned away. The exercises were begun promptly at 7:30 p. m. by the sounding of the gavel in the hands of Elk John W. Truman, Exalted Ruler. The program was carried out without a single interruption. There were over 250 Elks present in full uniform, thus making a very grand display as they marched in the hall to the strains of music from a well-known orchestra. The Lodge has lost five members during the year, and it was in honor of such deceased persons that the exercises were held. The singing and music were appropriate to the occasion, and were listened to with rapt attention. It is generally conceded that the exercises were the best of its kind in the history of the Lodge. Program. The following is the program: Master of Ceremonies, Simon H. Booker. Quartet, J. Edward Williams, leader. Address, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds, D. C. Address, Rev. J. E. Chapman. Address, Samuel E. Jones, Past District Deputy. Eulogy, Attorney L. MELENDEZ King, Address, Cornelius R. Richardson, Esteemed Leading Knight. Committee on Arrangements, John W. Truman, Exalted Trial, Dr. Phil. B. Brooks, Robert H. Johnson, Samuel D. S. Nelsog, Albert B. Rice. Sent to His Home The body of Serafin Natal, who died Nov. 20, 1910, has been sent to his home, Ponce, Porto Rico, for interment. Friends desiring particulars may call on Mr. Alexander Henson, of the Northwest Undertakers' Company, 645 Florida avenue northwest. 'Phone North 1415. THE ELKS COLUMBIA LODGE OF ELKS HONORS ITS DEAD. Hundreds Turned Away—Howard Theater Crowded—A Representative Audience Present—The Howard Orchestra Does Honor to the Occasion. The new Howard Theater was taxed to its utmost capacity last Sunday evening. Every available space was occupied, and hundreds were turned away because they could not gain admittance. The theater was brilliantly illuminated by electric lights. At the northeast corner of the stage was arranged on an inclined staff the number of those who had passed away: In 1907, R. D. Griffin, C. D. Whitfield and Joseph Harris; C. S. E. Brooks and Reuben Hill, in 1908; Lewis Reed, Reuben Hill and George Hamilton, in 1909, and Henry Harrison, in 1910. There were many well-known members of the Order present, including specially-invited guests, seated upon the platform, among whom were A. J. Gaskins, James Jackson, Moses Dade, Henry W. Hunter, Dr. Gates, Judge Robert H. Terrell, John W. Freeman, R. R. Hörner, W. Calvin Chase, Dr. James E. Mills, Grand Exalted Ruler, and many others. In the private boxes were the wives, daughters and friends and other invited guests of the members. Among the distinguished citizens in the orchestra were Mr. Charles R. Döglaug, A. W. Barton and others. The members of the organization occupied seats in the center of the orchestra, and they were faultlessly dressed in full black Prince Albert suits and black silk hats. They presented the appearance of dignity and neatness. The Howard Orchestra, under the leadership of Prof. Wm. H. Vodery, rendered several excellent selections which electrified the vast audience present. Mr. Charles H. Thomas, the Exalted Ruler and master of ceremonies, was at his best. He presided with dignity and precision. The first speaker was Mr. R. R. Hörner, a member of the bar and a member of the Board of Education, who had selected for his subject "The Relation of Fraternal Organizations as It Affects the Race." The address was eloquent and logical. He paid a high compliment to the organization as being represented by a fine body of men. He said among other things, further, that such body as Columbia Lodge of Elks was able to do a great deal of good for the uplift of the race. Dr. James E. Mills was the next speaker, who delivered the eulogy. It was a masterly effort. 'At the conclusion of the program Attorney John E. Collins, on part of the management of Howard Theater, stated that he had been directed to say the report that has been circulated to the effect that there is to be discrimination in the seating of colored patrons was untrue; that the house-was erected and dedicated to the people irrespective of color, and that the colored people will get any seat in the house they pay for. It was the consensus of opinion that this meeting was the greatest that has ever been held by Columbia Lodge, 85, G.B. P. O. E. of W. The following is the order of exercises: Overture, Strodella, Howard Orchestra. Elks March, "Columbia Lodge, No. 85," Vodery, Howard Orchestra. Hymn, "The Close of Day," Parks, Elks Glee Club. Invocation, Chaplain. Opening ceremonies, the Lodge. Hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light," Buck, Elks Glee Club. Prayer, Chaplain. Hymn, "Just Beyond," Parks, Elks Glee Club. Address, "The Relation of Fraternal Organizations as It Affects the Race," R. R. Horner, Esq. Medley, Popular Airs, Remick, Ioward Orchestra. Solo, "From Every Stormy Wind That Blows," Miss Hattie White. Eulogy, by Dr. James E. Mills, Grand Exalted Ruler. Solo, "Dreams of Paradise," Gray, Mr. Jeremiah Scott. Selection, "Remember Now Thy Creator," Rhodes, Elks Glee Club. Closing Ceremonies, by the Lodge. Hymn, "Hodigal Son," Parks, Elks Glee Club. Overture, "Morning, Noon and Night," Suppe, Howard Orchestra. Benediction, Chaplain. March, "The Antler," Lampe, Howard Orchestra. The Howard Orchestra, Wm. H. Vodery, leader. The Elks Quartet, Lewis Ambler, Director. JUSTICE SHEPARD-FINDS WALL GIRL RANKS AS NEGRO. Racial Status That of "Colored Person." Rules District's Highest Tribunal—Cannot Attend White Schools—Case Probably Will Be Taken to United States Supreme Court. Holding that eight-year-old Isabel Wall, who has one-sixteenth negro blood in her veins, is not entitled to admission to the Brookland Public School, Chief Justice Shepard, of the District Court of Appeals, Monday fixed the racial status for school children within the District of Columbia. The court virtually held that any child that has any appreciable mixture of negro blood, regardless of the proportion, is a "colored person." Isabel Wall was refused admittance to the Brookland public school on the ground that she was a negro, it having been asserted she had one-sixteenth negro blood in her veins. This action on the part of the principal was upheld by Superintendent of Schools Stuart, whose opinion in turn was affirmed by the Board of Education by a vote of 8 to 5. Then an application was made by Stephen Wall, an employee of the Government Printing Office and the father of the child, for a writ of mandamus to compel the School Board to admit his daughter to the Brookland school. Justice Wright dismissed the bill, and an appeal was taken. Justice Wright Affirmed The effect of the opinion was to affirm the action of Justice Wright. It is understood that the case will be carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. In appealing to the upper court the attorneys for the child's parents attacked the act of Congress providing for separate schools for white and colored children. They also argued that if the act is valid the child is not "colored." "Congress having failed to define the meaning of the word 'colored,'" says the opinion, "the duty was necessarily devolved, in the first instance at least, upon the Board of Education to determine what children are white and what are colored, whenever that question arises in a particular case. "In the absence of a definition in our own statute we are compelled to ascertain the popular meaning of the word 'colored.' As early as 1820 Mr. Justice Story declared that the word had acquired definite meaning, as mulatto, negro, etc., though it was not necessary in the case before him to express more definitely what the meaning was." Position of Petitioners The petitioners contended that the word "colored" must be given its common or popular significance: "Negro physical characteristic and negro blood must combine in one to render her colored," the petition read. Regarding this contention, Chief Justice Shepard says: "It must be remembered that the learned trial Justice had found that there was to be observed of the child physical characteristics, which afforded ocular evidence suggestive of aught save the Caucasian. He declined, however, to accept this delusive test of race, and based his conclusion that the petitioner is 'colored' upon the fact that she has a proportion of negro blood, not more than one-eighth and not less than one-sixteenth." In ending his opinion Chief Justice Shepard says: "It is urged that a hardship will be inflicted upon the petitioner, a conclusion at which we have arrived. It may be, however, that greater evils would result from a different one. Be that as it may, our province is to interpret the legislation, not to enact it." Public School Athletic League The principal of the Banneker School, D. I. Renfro, announces the following officers: President, George Lacy; Vice President; Prentiss Hutchinson; Secretary, Montgomery Shinn; Treasurer, Miss K. R. Martin, teacher of the seventh grade; Assistant Treasurer, Clarence Dickson. Not only are the boys enthusiastic over the formation of a league within their school, but the girls are enthusiastic also. In several schools the girls rendered splendid assistance by helping the boys to secure their athletic-suits. Former Associate Justice William H. Moody, who has been ill at his home here, is said to be improving. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS PARAGRAPHIC NEWS (By Miss G. B. Maxfield.) It is said that 120 census employees will be dropped to-day, as the final count to ascertain the total population of the United States has been made. A. J. Shaw, of Guthrie, Okla, an election inspector, was arrested at Tulsa, Okla, for refusing to allow colored Americans to vote. The court held that registration before the adoption of the "Grandfather clause" did not give the colored American the right to vote. There are eight female cooks wanted for the Indian service. They are compelled to pass a civil service examination, so as to show their physical ability, their previous training and experience. Now is a chance for some of our graduates from the Armstrong Manual Training School. The annual report to the District Commissioners of Maj. Sylvester, Superintendent of Police, should be read by every one. Among other things, it showed a less number of crimes, seven arrests for murder during the past year, and generally the District is said to be showing diminution of various crimes, of which the Police Department feels very much encouraged. Miss Helen Taft, the President's daughter, unveiled the bronze statue of Maj. Gen. Von Steuben, Inspector General of the American Revolutionary War, last Wednesday. Among the distinguished speakers were President Taft and the German Ambassador. Four new desks have been ordered for the United States Senate. They will be situated on the Democratic side, without regard to the political character of the occupants, who will be Senators from Arizona and New Mexico. The Treasury Department has sent word that it will receive bids for 100,000 ounces of silver from the Denver Mint. It will be used for coining dimes exclusively and will make, it is stated, about $50,000 worth of them. The Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has been active in its fall work, and a winter of activity is planned, especially along educational lines. Every fourth and eighth grades in both colored and white schools will be visited and taught how to keep from contracting the disease. According to the 16th annual report of the Southern Railway, in the past year 55,000 tons of wines, liquors and beers were transported into the Southern States, despite the wave of prohibition supposed to be sweeping over the Southland. Rev. Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, President of Union College, at an address at the dedication of the Thomas R. Proctor Library at Richfield Springs, said: "The educators of the country are going mad over the subject of trade schools and technical training. In my judgment, the emphasis upon industrial training is already too strong." Alason A. Sumner, a Director in the Standard Oil Company, well known in business circles in New York, died last week. The State of Massachusetts will erect a monument to its soldiers who fell in the battles about Petersburg, Va., and there has been selected a site for a handsome memorial on the Crater battlefield, a few miles from Petersburg, Va. Miss Mary a Holbrook, many years a missionary for the American Board in China and Japan, died at her home in New Haven, Conn., last week. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for France has made its award for acts of heroism performed during the past year. Eighteen persons, the majority of whom are widows or orphans of those who sacrificed their lives for others, received sums-ranging from $20 to $600. One of the most historic army posts of the Southwest, Fort Davis, which was the scene of many desperate struggles with the Apaches and other warring Indian tribes, will pass out of the government possession and be sold at public auction in a few days. The Civic Betterment Association has adopted resolutions congratulating Commissioner Rudolph "for having introduced modern business principles into the administration of the affairs in his Department." Within the past five years the Negroes of Macon County, Ala., have raised $20,000 toward building a school house and extending school terms. Moses Webb, a colored American, who is said to be the last survivor who led the horses attached to the hearse at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in 1865, died at Aurora, Ill., last week at the age of 85 years. H. O. Blaisdell, the world's champion typist, established a new world's 10-minute record. He wrote 1,144 words in that time and made only 11 errors. It is announced that Dr. M. A. Barber, Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Kansas, will go to the Philippines at the close of the present school term to spend two years in medical research. Separate schools are to be agitated in Chicago. Oh, if Ethiopians could change their skin! James K. Polk Taylor, an ex-slave, 71 years old, and his wife have given 480 acres at Calhan, 40 miles east of Colorado Springs, as a site for a National tuberculosis sanitarium for Negroes of the United States. Dr. Ernest Lyon, who returned to this country a few weeks ago from Liberia, where he has been American Minister for the past seven years, refilled his old pulpit last Sunday in Baltimore, Md. Two O'Thee Five O'Me O'Me When mf f p 2nd time f mf Kenyon $15 Men's Suits When you seek economy, ask your merchant to show you this $15 Suit. Compare it with one that costs $25, and see wherein lies the difference. It does not lie in the wearing qualities, surely not in the style and fit. The great difference is one of price, caused by more than one reason—made in the largest factories of their kind in the world. C. Kenyon Co., 23 Union Sq., N.Y. W.B. Reduso CORSETS W. B. 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All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. IF YOU NEED TIMES don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of Hedgehorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual price. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT BUYING a bicycle offers we are making. It only creates a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. FOR YOU IF YOU LIKE PERFUME Send only 4¢ in stamps for a little sample of ED. PINAUD'S LILAC VEGETAL The latest Paris perfume craze A wonderful creation, just like the living blossoms. Ask your dealer for a large bottle -- 75c. (6 oz.) Write our American Offices to-day for the sample, enclosing 4c. (to pay postage and packing). Parfumerie ED. PINAUD, Dept. M ED. PINAUD BLBG. NEW YORK $3.90 per pair, but to introduce you grill will you sample pair or $2.99 each order $4.55. NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in small sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes without allow- from salt- green pumped to more than being given fabric on the pair, but roc Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "H" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make—NOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. GOT HIM CHEAP. The Way Sir Moral Mackenzie, the Famous Surgeon, Was 'Once Cleverly Tricked. Sir Morel Mackenzie once received a wire from Antwerp asking him his charges for a certain operation. He replied 5500 and was told to come at once. When he stepped upon the dock he was met by three men in mourning, who informed him sadly that he had some too late, the patient had died. "But," said the spokesman of the party, "we shall pay you your full fee." And they did. "And now," said the man, "since you are here, what do you say to visiting the city hospital and giving a clinic for the benefit of our local surgeons? It is not often they have an opportunity of benefiting by such science as yours." Sir Morel said he would gladly comply. He went to the hospital and performed many operations, among which were two of a similar nature to that for which he had been called for. When he had finished all thanked him profusely. On the steamer going home he met a friend, who had a business house in Antwerp. "Pretty scurvy trick they played on you, Sir Morel." "What do you mean?" asked the surgeon. "Told you the patient died before you arrived, didn't they?" "Yes." "Lies. You operated on him and a friend with the same trouble at the clinic. Got two operations for one price." HE WAS EXCITED. And Yet He Was Making Only a Very Reasonable Request. It was a dramatic scene, pregnant with the most tragic possibilities. Thus thought a witness to the meeting of three Itallians near the big express depot at Fifteenth and Market streets. A man and woman who were delivering a trunk into the hands of a clerk were suddenly confronted by another man, who was highly excited. He approached the woman. In voluble Italian he raved and swore and pleaded, while she shrilled equally excited answers. The other man stood back against the wall, his arms folded defiantly, his head sunk on his chest. It certainly looked as if daggers were to be drawn. The interested bystander asked of some listeners who understood the rapidly spluttered dialect what the trouble was all about. "Why," was the volunteered translation, "this woman has run away from her husband with this man," pointing to the sulky individual. "Oh, and he is begging her to return?" was the next query. "Not on your life," was the expressive reply. "She has packed up all her husband's clothes in her trunk, as well as her own, and he is begging her to give back at least his Sunday suit."—Philadelphia Record. Baked Men. Workers in porcelain factories are literally baked, but by some miracle of use and wont they remain sufficiently underdone to live. At least if they are not quite baked they endure a stronger heat than that which browns the Sunday sirloin. The furnaces wherein porcelain is finished are kept at the fiercest heat used in any industry. A chain of workmen, their heads and bodies swathed in fireproof garments, take the finished pieces from the fire one at a time and pass them to the cooling room. The man at the head of this chain—he who stands nearest the furnace—can work in only five minute shifts. In his interims of rest he lies on a mattress drinking glass after glass of ice water from the hands of a small boy. At lunchtime all about the chain of men steaks grill—Cincinnati Enquirer. Just Tolerable. Concerning a certain time serving Washington clergyman of whom a visitor was one day expressing a harsh estimate President Lincoln said; I think you are rather hard on Mr. He reminds me of a man in Illinois who was arrested for passing a counterfeit bill. He admitted that he had taken it to a bank cashier to know if it was a good bill. "Well, what was the reply of the cashier?" asked his lawyer. "Why." evasively answered the prisoner. "he said it was a pretty tolerable, respectable sort of a bill." Mr. Lincoln thought the clergyman "a pretty tolerable, respectable sort of a clergyman." At Close Range. "He is the child of the noted astronomer who lives over the way." "Oh, is he? Come here, sonny. Run home and tell your father he doesn't need his telescope if he wants to see spots on the son."—Baltimore American. Hia Trouble Friend—Don't worry because your sweetheart has turned you down since you lost your money. There are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught. Jilted One—Yes, but I've lost my bait—Harper's Bazar. Ripe Old Age Little Willie—Say, pa, what is a tipe old age? Pa—It's the age, my son, at which a man is willing to admit that he's not the only dried apple in the pantry—Chicago News. The Doctor's Orders Mrs. O'Harrigan—Phoy have ye stuck this empty flask under th' baby? Mrs. Carey—Th' doctor's ordthers. He told me Old have to keep th' baby on a bottle!—Judge. Not to outshine, but to shine upon, his neighbors is the successful man's mission—Towne. LATHAM'S HOME RUN. And How It Figured In Having Him Dubbed "the Dude," as Told by Charley Comlakey. Charley Comlakey told the story of how Arle Latham came to be called "the dude." "One spring during Latham's term of service with the good old St. Louis Browns," said Comlakey, "he jumped into the opening game of the season and won us a victory by knocking out a home run in the last inning. Chris von der Ahe from his place in the grand stand saw Arle make his sensational hit and naturally enthused. After the game 'der boss president' entered the clubhouse and in that peculiar dialect of his said to Latham: "Arlle, my poy, you must be glad that I, Chris, was proud mit you, an' I will show you vat my feelings is by giving you the present of somedlings for you to wear on yourself. Take dis order on mine own tailor an' go an' dress up yourself." "Chris' order on the tailor read something like this: "Give to Arlle der tings vat he buys, an' send to me der hill." "Latham didn't do a thing on the strength of that order but replenish his wardrobe. For three days in succession he showed up at the ball park in a fine makeup, and every suit of clothes was brand new. On the fourth day Chris got a bill from the clothing people for $100. Naturally he sent for Latham and demanded an explanation. "Why, Chris, old pal,' said 'Lath,' 'there's nothing to explain. Didn't you agree in that order you gave me to pay for what I bought, and haven't I just begun to buy? Why, old pal, I have only got three suits and expect to be measured for another this afternoon. What's wrong?" "Arlie," replied Von der Aho, 'you vas de one infernal dude in de pixness, I vill dis bill pay, but you vill yourself go to der tailor an' mit him explain vot I dink of der impudence of you yourself. You vill also stop mit de clothes you now have on an' do no more mit such foolishness mit der man vot pays your salary. Arlie, you was one dude, an' if you play mit any errors dis afternoon I vill myself fine you all der bootiful clothes you have yourself bought." "From that day Latham became known to the baseball world as 'the dude.'" A Curious Structure. On the road from Clifton downs to Avonmouth the traveler will pass, in the Avon gorge, a curious structure to which a singular tradition is attached, relates the London Tatier. The story is that a person named Cook about a century ago was told by a gypsy in the Leigh woods that his only son would be killed by a serpent before he reached the age of twenty-one. To avert this he built a high tower and shut his son in the topmost room with the intention of secluding him there until the fatal age was passed. However, by accident a viper was taken up in a fagot to the room to light the fire, and it crept from the fagot and bit the boy so that he died. Therefore the tower was called Cook's Folly; and that is its name to this day, whatever is the true explanation. An Ignoble Use Washington Irving in "Crayon Papers" says: "I was once at an evening entertainment given by the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House to William IV. The duke had manifested his admiration of his great adversary, Napoleon, by having portraits of him in different parts of the house. At the bottom of the grand staircase stood the colossal statue of the emperor by Canova. It was of marble in the antique style, with one arm partly extended, holding a figure of Victory. Over this arm the ladies in tripping upstairs to the ball had thrown their shawls. It was a singular office for the statue of Napoleon to perform in the mansion of the Duke of Wellington! Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, etc. The Elder That Sware An elder of the kirk, having found a little boy and his sister playing marbles on Sunday, put his reproof in this form, not a judicious one for a child: "Boy, do you know where children go who play marbles on Sabbath day?" "Ay," said the boy. "They gang down to the field by the water belaw the brig." "No," roared out the elder; "they go to hell and are burned." The little fellow, really shocked, called to his sister: "Come awa', Jeanie. Here's a man swearing awfully."—"Reminiscences of Dean Bam-say." Hats as Alda to Matrimony "The wise woman is as careful about the choice of a hat as she is about the choice of a husband." The celebrated author who uttered this dictum may have exaggerated a little, but not much. And allow me, a woman, to tell you solemn men whom I see sneering at the "frivolity" of my sex that often the cleverest among you chooses a wife for no better reason than that the woman thus selected has herself chosen a becoming hatt-Mma. G. De Broulles in Grand Magazine. Seeking Relief. Darky (boarding a train)—I beard bout youh wife dyin', Jim. Whar yo' gwine now? "Ts off to join de Mormons. Hitt keeps one woman hustlin' too much to support a heavy eatah lak me." Life. To speak or write Nature did not peremptorily order thesus but to wach, she did. Carlyle. LEE AT APPOMATTOX. One of the Most Notable Scenes In the History of the War—The Parting of Comrades. Men who saw the defeated general when he came forth from the chamber where he had signed the articles of capitulation say that he paused a moment as his eyes rested once more on the Virginia hills, smote his hands together as though in some excess of inward agony, then mounted his gray horse, Traveler, and rode calmly away. If that was the very Gethsemane of his trials, yet he must have had then one moment of supreme, if chastened, joy. As he rode quietly down the lane leading from the scene of capitulation he passed into view of his men—of such as remained of them. The news of the surrender had got abroad, and they were waiting, grief stricken and dejected, upon the hillsides when they caught sight of their old commander on the gray horse. Then occurred one of the most notable scenes in the history of the war. In an instant they were about him, bareheaded, with tear wet faces, thronging him, kissing his hand, his boots, his saddle; weeping, cheering him amid their tears, shouting his name to the very skies. He said: "Men, we have fought through the war together. I have done my best for you. My heart is too full to say more."—From "Bobert E. Lee, the Southerner." ERBOR MEANT DEATH. Typesetters and-Proofreaders on Chinese Paper Careful. China, with all its vast population, boasts not quite two dozen daily papers, but among them are the two oldest papers in the world. The Kin Pan used to be considered by Europeans the oldest paper, but it has been issued a mere thousand years. The Tsing Pao, or Pekin News, was first published 560 years before the Norman conquest and has been issued without intermission for nearly 1,400 years. The Tsing Pao has the appearance of a yellow backed magazine of twenty-four octavo pages, each page containing seven columns, consisting of seven "characters." Two editions are published—an edition de luxe for the court and the upper classes at a cost of 24 cents a month, and an edition inferior in paper and printing, costing 16 cents a month. It has a circulation of about 10,000 and is really the principal paper of China, chronicling the movements of the emperor and of the court and printing the ministerial reports. It is probably the most exact newspaper in the world. The punishment for an error in printing was until recently, at least, instant death.—New York Times. Old London Cookshops Mediaeval London, besides being a "city of taverns," was famous for its cookshops, such as the place on the river bank described by Fitzstephen in the thirteenth century: "There every day ye may call for any dish of meat, roast, fried or sodden, fish both small and great, venison and fowl; If friends come upon a sudden weared with travel to a citizen's house and they be loath to wait for curious preparations and dressings of fresh meat let the servant run to the water side, where all things that can be desired are at hand." This particular place of public cookery apparently did an indoor as well as an outdoor trade, for Fitzstephen further described it as being used both day and night by "multitudes of soldiers or other strangers who refresh themselves to their content on roast goose, the fowl of Africa and the rare gadwilt of Ionia." But what were the two last mentioned viands? -London Chronicle. Sickroom Mirrors "Only a hand mirror should find place in a sickroom," said a doctor, "and it should be one fattering to the patient—the kind, for instance, which if the face is too broad will lengthen it a little. And the patient should only be allowed to look in the mirror at propitious times. Many a patient has been frightened literally to death by his haggard reflection—has looked, sighed and renounced hope. But many another patient in a really bad way—really desperate, too—being given a look at himself just after he has taken a stimulant has bucked up wonderfully. In fact, a sickroom mirror wisely bandled is a curative agent, while recklessly handled it may kill." His Usual Way. The new waitress sidled up to a dapper young man at the breakfast table, who, after glancing at the bill, opened his mouth, and a noise issued forth that sounded like the ripping off of all of the cogs on one of the wheels in the power house. The new waitress made her escape to the kitchen. "Fellow out there insulted me," she said. The head waiter looked at him. "I'll get it," he said. "That's just the train caller ordering his breakfast."—Argonaut "He says that he doesn't have to dress in a cold room." - Bohemian. Crushed Again. Mrs. Denham—Do you think that I shall be a good looking old woman? Denham—I don't know why you should expect any such radical chance.—New York Press. MCCALL PATTERNS 10 15 MORE HICKEN MCCALL'S MAGAZINE 50 YEAR WALKING A FREE PATTERN McCALL FATTERNS Celebrated for style, perfect fit, simplicity and reliability nearly 40 years. Sold in nearly every city and town in the United States and Canada, or by mail direct. More sold than any other make. Send for free catalogue. McCALL'S MAGAZINE More subscribers than any other fashion magazine, with a wide range of latest styles, patterns, dressmaking, millinery, plain sewing, fancy needlework, hairdressing etiquette, good stories, etc. On 10 cents a year (worth double), including a free pattern. 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Comfortably Heated by Steam. Give us a Call James Otoway Holmes, Prop. Washington, D. C. am Phone 2314. CHINA'S GRAND CANAL At Times It Holds Water Enough to Float Boats, but Usually They Are Dragged Over Mud Banks. Of some of the crude and outgrown methods used on China's Grand canal a writer in the North China Daily News remarks: "The junction of the real canal with the Wei river was not by means of a lock, but simply a high and steeply sloping mud bank, over which the grain vessels had to be dragged by the force of perhaps many hundreds of men. It should be borne in mind that in China the lock of a canal is not much more like our idea of what that name connotes than it is like a padlock. Amid constant and often serious changes of level, with an uncertain and not infrequently a scanty supply of water, and with a grain fleet which traveled in blocks of some eighty vessels under one officer, it was necessary to devise some way for keeping them together and for transferring them as a consolidated unit with this in view. "For this reason a Chinese lock on the Grand canal is nothing but a stone gateway into which large boards may be lowered through a groove in the stones, restraining most of the water from its flow, until there is a depth sufficient to float all the craft, when the boards are pulled up and the entire fleet passes through. "After this the boards are again lowered for another division of the grain boats. In case the water gives out—a by no means unlikely occurrence—there is nothing to do but to wait until more comes from home where." Take one quart of dough from the bread in the early morning, break three eggs, separating whites from yolks, whip both to a light froth, mix into the dough and gradually add lukewarm water till the consistency of griddle cakes. Beat well and let rise till breakfast time, then have the griddle hot and well greased, pour on the batter in small cakes and bake brown WORTH ADVERTISING FOR There are 5,499 Negroes employed here in Washington the Government alone, and these 5,499 Negroes draw the gregating $3,044,404. These more than three millions are spent right here in Washington, but scattered and hundreds of tradesmen. Is this amount of money waiting for? It certainly is, and not even the largest city would refuse to get the big end of it did they how much money the Negroes are really spending. Now The Bee is the only Negro publication in the stands without a rival or competitor, and covers the few of the merchants in this city will patronize the adventures of The Bee, presenting the attractive bargains they these Negroes — these 5,499 Negroes who draw annual Government over three millions of dollars — will assume a publication edited and operated by one of their such firms desire and deserve their patronage. And such receive the bulk of these over three millions of dollars spent by the Negroes of Washington. What clothing stores, what furniture stores, what dry g and what other lines of business will now make an effort themselves these over three millions of dollars spent by Negroes by advertising in The Bee? Place your advertising in The Bee and watch these 5,499 Negroes spend their over three millions of dollars will Now is the time to advertise in The Bee, the newspaper into every Negro home in Washington. 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And such firms will receive the bulk of these over three millions of dollars received must 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. MORE MONEY—RACE PROGRESS. If colored people groom themselves daintly, destruction odors, remove grease shine from the face, and use discoveries for improving the skin and dressing them will be better received in the business world, more money, and advance faster. 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Just received a large assignment of fresh drugs and a large collection of very fine toilet preparations, Easter goods, and many useful articles, just the thing you desire for Easter offering. ceptional opportunity. This is the county in which The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute is located. There is plenty of good land for sale on easy terms. There is a good schoolhouse, and the school term lasting from seven to eight months in every part of the county. The white people in Macon County are of the very best class. There is no disorder or racial trouble. We advise colored people who are now living in crowded towns or cities, in the North or in the South, and especially those who have children to raise to come to Macon County and buy a home where they can get plenty of land to cultivate and rear their families in the county free from the temptations of the cities and towns. For further information write or see: Clinton J. Calloway, Real Estate The commission in charge of the Illinois Hall of Fame, at Champaign, has decided that the late Philip D. Armour is entitled to recognition, owing to his services in promoting the livestock industry in the United States. Cardinal Logue, the prelate of Ireland, who is in Dutham, N. C., to attend the consecration service of St. Patrick's Cathedral, said: "The colored people should have been educated first, then gradually emancipated. It was a mistake to set them free, untutored and helpless. There are many colored families who are living in crowded houses on small plots of land in towns or cities who want real freedom and real opportunity for themselves and for their children. It is very difficult to rear children in a crowded town or city. The place to rear children is in the country. In Macon County, Alabama, the colored people have a rare and ex- Ee ee a ———eaeeEeEeEeEeEy——Eee—= ~ : , oe SS be of great benefit to the publis, and | Fy 4 : Se Fy whicl are: invited to att , rs | es he Weelttin i tseatcenses| oy Mebows Phase | : n only, will be delivered at 3 p. m. i r a Pe Girls udder 1g years Of age may not| 9th and You Sts., N. W. 33 Fe eee = ene come. At 8 p. m he will talk to men FIRS rr | am ra 2 ; See: only. invitations are being sent to POLITE FACE ND | Oe Sit So VF) |e men ofall churches and societies | ze THEATER Cee | & A eas and non-church members to attend the HEATRE THE, PEOPLE =) i ye 7 same, He is, working hard to: save ete Ee. S ca Washi , Sl Pel © 2a Washington. “His motto 1s “Washing- Netw Pictures Every Evening and R Oy es Ub os OV . . oR jor Chit The music is most Special Altrachons oe ar 7 me ig as well as the preaching. Ford Dadney NINTH AND YOU STS+ . R ‘ BAe SY Kt JOINT PARENTS’ MEETING a 1G SSCS (7 ce st.near7th,N.W ‘ Po eyes . ! Fou al Bazaar. e » ca a i —— The Fourth Annual 9 ® {Pen fy a ZA Judge DeLacy Speaker—Prof. Mont. | Colored , Young "Womens Gansten Th Nata heed A gomery’s Timely ‘Addrese—Interest- | Association will open Dee. 12, and 8 heatre for the Peo le x a> ¢ ue unti ‘ roa i CNet - | Oa ae he Most distinguished and its New home, 429° siccet northgect | - p OH WS appreciative audiences that ever as- Lhe program for the six evenings is 4 ort e: J a ee as in the M Street High Sttractive. Admission to the bazaar ee , i x barry : hool last Thursday evening. It was #8 only 10 cents. , Cc I2 Me vy + |Party he pe | re ; Ta : F nnaker, ick > —=—_—_ 4 ll Se gar . 1 |Botetane amegesnnaker, Frederick BiGRNSTINE LOAN OFFICE MATINEES: TUESDAY, THURSDAY & § 2 F Simmons schools. it was an occasion, GOLD AND NIGHT: CONTINUO ATORDAY a sone! : Fee oes ge as a occasion: SILVER WATCH- : US PERFORMANCES FR ’ : rceasion GOLD AND S = OM7 to 10:30 Reenter eee Ja ¥rrewesatrwrcrciroeec: Eharmacy t912 1-2 14th St. N. W. “The place where everybody meets everybody else.” So Mrs. Bertha Johnston, of Harris. burg. Pa, is a guest of Mrs. W. J. Singleton, 1814 13th street northwest. After having been confined to her room for several weeks, the friends of Miss Rebecca Norton, of 29 De- frees street northwest, are glad to sec ker up and out again. Mrs. Henrietta Bowman, who has been out of the city two years, has returned. Mr. Arthur Jacobs, of this city, is visiting her grandmother on Cross- wicks street, Bordentown, N. J. Race post cards and colored dolls at Gray and Gray’s Drug Store, 12th and U streets northwest. Dr. Eugene Howley, of this city, is spending several- days in Jersey City. Mrs. R. W. Tyler is visiting her wiother and relatives in Columbus, Ohio. * . Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, of Rich- mond, V2, R. W. G. Secretary and Treasurer of the I. O. of St. Luke, was a visitor to our city last week, and was the principal speaker at the St. Luke mass meeting on the even- ing of Dec. 2, Mrs. Sarah Ferguson Smith, of Jer- sey City, N. J. has been the guest ef her mother and relatives in this city for two weeks. She will return to Jersey City in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. John Herring, of Bal- timore, Md., are spending the winter here. . No need to take calomel or any ether poisonous mineral drug when you can get Liveroids to do the work safer, better and more satisfactorily. For sale at the drug store of Board & McGuire, ro12¥4 14th St. N. W., or sent anywhere by mail for only “zsc a box. “ Mr. Benjamin S. Smith,of this city, visited Baltimore a few days ago. Mrs, Daniel Murphy, of 559 Laurens Street, and daughter Clementine, of Baltimore, Md. spent Wednesday of last week in this city. . Mr. Giles B. Jackson, of Richmond, ‘Va. wad in Our city last week. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Rutherford, Dr. RW. Brown and Miss M. H., Haw- kins are attending the triennial’ meet- ing of the Golden Cross Society of America_at Lynchburg, Va, Miss Clara Saddler, of Philadelphia, Pa. had a very pleasant visit to thie city during the recent holidays. Mrs. Vanison L. Richards and chil- dren, of Philadelphia, Pa., visited rel- atives in this city during Thanksgiv- ing week. After the § and to cent theatre, be- tween the acts, and at all hours, ice eream soda is now all the rage. esneci- ally that snappy, cold, pure, delicious kind that ie served at the drug store of Board & &McGuire, 1912 t-2 rth St. N. W. Tt 1s made right, served right. tastee right, and is right Misses Alfreda’ Kenney and Janie R. Cole were royally entertained by: Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Chichester, of 31820 Catherine street, during their visit to Philadelphia. Miss Rita Wright, of Elmira, N. Y., is sending some time in this city. Mr. Harry Lyles, of this city, is yatne his parents in Hagerstown, Mrs. Antonette Makel, who soert| last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, John Gray, in Hagerstown, Md., has returned home, accompanied by her mother, who will probably spend the winter here. Mrs. Saunder, of this city, is visit- ing her daughter. Mrs. Arthur Carter, of Ralm street; Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Clarence Cameron White. was the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Lewis E. Clark, of 2321 North Carolina avenue, during his stay in Indianapolis, Ind., last week. os Mr. J. Culbert Campbell and -Miss Lillian’ Ramcey were quietly. married Thanksgiving Day. They have re- ceived many congratulations from their friends, Liveroids is the newest and best vegetable preparation for torpid liver, constipation, boils and pimples. due to impure blood. For sale at the drug Store of Board & McGuire, 1912% rath St. N. W, 7 The Chrysalis Octette is the new club, comnoced of Misses Lula How- ard. Willard Hall, Adele Parks, Evelyn Moss, Lillian Evans. Mirian Wormley, Pearlie Lewis and Imogene Clarkson. Mr. Frank De Van, clerk in the Office of the Auditor for the Navy, has gone to Texas on a visit to his parents. Mr. De Van anticipates vis- iting points in Mexico. The Chrysanthemum Club of, Berean Church gave a reception at True Reformers’ Hall on Friday even- ing, Dec. 2, which was largely at- tended. Mr. Theodore Shorter, of Chicago, is visiting his mother and family in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Tolliver are en- tertaining Miss G. Smallwood, of this sity, during her stay in Philadelphia, 2. Don't forget Liveroids when you feel the need of a real good liver reg- ulator and tonic. For sale at the drug store of Board & McGuire, 191214 a ee Ga ae eae | For reliable prescription work, go to Gray and Gray's Drug Store, 12th and U streets northwest, and have the Protection of four registered pharma- cists and free delivery service to all parts of the city. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hill, of Macon Ga, are in this city. Mr. Hill ha: come here for treatment in Freed men's Hospital, Lieut. R. E. S, Toomy has beer quite ill with an ulcerated sore throat Mr. M. Judson Malvin, who met with a severe accident some time age which resulted in spraining his leg and who has been confined to his home for several wecks, is improving, and hope: to be out soon. Attorney Thomas L. Jones has been suffering with severe attack of rheu- matism. He has not been incapacitat- ed to the extent of keeping him from the practice of his profession. Mr. A. W. Harris, of Petersburg Va. was in the city Tuesday on im- Portant political business, | Gray and Gray's Pharmacy, 12th and U streets northwest, is recom- mended to those seeking a complete ‘stock, low prices and courteous, ex- pert service. Four registered pharma: cists regularly employed. Dr, James E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C, passed through the city Tues- day en route fo? New York City. Dr. Booker T, Washington passed through the city last week for the West. He will return on the r2th to attend the meeting of the Year Fund Committee The Howard University Law School never was in a better condition than it is to-day under the efficient secretary, Mr. James F. Bundy.” | Miss Ore Brooks of 1842 11th Street northwest, has been confined to her residence the past week with a severe cold. Her grandmother, Mrs. Catharine Everett, has also been con- fined to her residence and under the care of a physician. Our old and genial friend, Richard Peters, of the Postoffice Department, is lying dangerously ill at his resi- dence on Tenth street iorthwest, we regret to announce. Monday, Dec. 12, will be Census Night atthe Fourth Annual Bazaar of the Colored Y. W. C. A., to be held at the new home, 429 T strect northwest. On this evening the En- tertainment Committee wishes to re- ctive and entertain all the young ladies of the’ Census Bureau. We sin- cerely hope that all who possibly can will be present. ‘ Rev. Richard C Richardson, hus- band of Madame M. J. Richardson, is quite ill at his home, 2310 F strect northwest. Mr. John T. Howe, of 1514 New Jer- sey avenue northwest, left for Wil- mington, N. C, on business. He will return in a few days. . ¥. W. CAL On last Tuesday evening the new home of the Colored Y. W. C. A. at 429 T street northwest was the scene of a véry enjoyable housewarming. The entertainment was arranged by ‘Mrs, Bertha G. Collins, who is Chiir- man of the Entertainment Commit tee of the Y. W.C. A. The evening was most enjoyably spent, and the whole affair was very creditable to the Committee. During the evening re- Ireshments were served, and the fol- lowing musical program was rendered: Mr. Hodge, vocal solo, 7 Miss L. Howard, piano solo. Miss Dean, vocal solo. Miss Alexander, vocal solo. Miss Williamson, piano solo. Miss Green, piano solo. This is the first of a series of en- tertainments to be given at the Y. W. € A. Home by the Entertainment Committee. West Washineton News. the Epworth League of Mt. Zion M. E. Church eclebrated Harvest Day on Sunday, Nov. 27, 1910, which was very interesting to the large gathering Present. As a part of the service, eight young ladies, bearing sheaves of wheat, entered the main auditorium, singing “Bringing in the sheaves,” ac- companied by the members of the League, each having fruit or vege- tables, which were afterwards distrib- uted to the poor members of the church. More than three bushels of provisions were received. Miss H. H, brea is the President of the League. Miss M. G. White was the presiding officer. Rev. D. W. Hayes, pastor. Mr. Tolliver Terrell. of Rosslyn, Va., who died last Saturday, was buried Tuesday afternoon from the First Baptist Church, Rev. E. E. Ricks officiating. Interment Baptist Ceme- tery. | .The Christian Endeavor Society of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church was largely attended Sunday evening, and a very interesting program was rendered. Miss Bessie Nash presided. Revival at Miles Memorial Church. A revival of much importance is in Progress at Miles Memorial Church, of which Dr. L. E. B. Rosser is pas- tor. Rev. Charles R. Denkins, the noted and gifted preached from North Carolina, is in charge and preaching great sermons at each service. He will Preach two special sermons that will JAMES A.WHITE ’ 216 9th St. Northwest — Qysters and Clams Shucked Byeay . Hinule in + Pbe Bey--. : Ovsters bv the Pint Quart or Gallon Try Our Select Oysters | ORRIVERED TO ANY PAT OF SHo one” be of great benefit to the public, and to which 7 are invited to attend, The first one, Monday afternoon, to wom- en only, will be delivered at 3 p. m. Girls under 15 years of age must not come. At 8 p, m. he will talk to men only. Invitations are being sent to the men of all churches and societies and non-church members to attend the same. He is, working hard to: save Washington. “His motto 1s “Washing- ton for Christ.” The music is most charming as well as the preaching. JOINT PARENTS’ MEETING AT M STREET HIGH SCHOOL | CROWDED. | Judge DeLacy Speaker—Prof. Mont- gomery’s Timely Address—Interest- ing Exercises. One of the most distinguished and appreciative audiences that ever as- sembled was in the M Street High School last Thursday evening. It was 3 parents’ meeting under the auspices of the Benjamin Bannaker, Frederick Douglass, Alfred Jones and Abby Simmons schools. It was an occasion long to be remembered, Every avail- able space in the building was taken. Dr. W. S. Montgomery is the su- pervisor of this school division of these schools, who has the respect and ‘confidence not only of the teachers, but of the parents in the entire city. His opening address to the large audi- ence outlined the work in the several schools, and the wish of the schools to_be closer to the parents. * The meeting was inaugurated by the four principals, Mr. J. C. Payn, Dr. D. I. Renfro, Miss E. A. Chase and Miss L. G. Arnold, who are respon- sible for this meeting. Such meetings as these are not only helpful to the schools, but to the parents of the chil- dren., This accounts for the popular- ity of Dr. Montgomery. He is in close touch with the parents and the people. ; |. The first speaker introduced was Judge W. H, DeLacy, of the Juvenile Court, who is always 2 welcome visi- tor wherever he goes. His address was full of good advice and whole- some thoughts. He advised the pa- rents to be in closer touch with the teachers and ,to teach the children good morals.’ His address was ap- plauded throughout its delivery. He was followed by Assistant Superin- tendent Bruce. The program of exercises was as follows: _ - Invocation—Rey, M. W. Clair. , Solo—Selected, Miss Virginia Will- jams, | Address—Judge W. H. DeLacy, Juvenile Court, D. C. Chorus—Selected, Amphion Glee Club. _ Address—Dr. C. A, Tignor, Medical Inspector of Schools, __,Chorus—Selected, Amphion Glee Club. Benediction—Rev. Sylvester Cor- rothers, Dr. W. S. Montgomery, Presiding Officer. 7 Galbraith- Church Anniversary. The s8th anniversary of the Gal- braith A. M. E. Zion Church closed last night. In many respects the ef- fort excelled all previous records. The classes raised the following amount: Class No, 1. Osborn Lee, leader...... $59.70 2. Albert Sprague, leader... 174.10 3. Edward Wells, leader.... 174-39 + Jacob ‘Fenderson, leader.. 130.43 5. C. H. Lively, leader..... 247.10 “6. W.-H. Graham, leader... 326.25, 7. Charles Neal, leader..... 115.25 &. Benj. Williams, leader... 126.25 9. Thomas Hawkins, leader. 90.00 10. Mary Shaw, leader...... 3653 tr, John Lane, leader........ 1.50 Public 20... ..e.e.ee 28. 242.35 Grand eh. For the next three Sundays an ef- fort will be made to raise $300, in order to make the grand total $2,000, Every department of the church is in splendid condition and all contributed to the success of the general move- ment. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock the Rev. Dr. Thompson, presiding elder of the Alexandria district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will preach from Galbraith pulpit. Sunday evening at 8 p. m. the pastor will de- liver the anniversary sermon to the Household of Ruth. : Trustees of Fairmount. At a gathering of the Heights Pub- lic School Thursday evening, Dec. 1, 1910, the progress of the trustees and teachers wds submitted, and it was de- cided that a more lively interest in the school work be created. Mr. Louis F, Litz, of Capital Heights, address- ed the meeting, his subject being the “Benefits of education,” after which a vote of thanks was tendered him for his timely remarks, Mr, R. A. Tilgh- man also addressed ‘the meeting,’after which presented resolutions favoring the school. Sergt. F. Coleman, Messrs. , | Rord Wabyey’s Theatre gth and You Sts., N. W. aa FIRST CLASS AND POLITE VAUDEVILLE THE THEATRE THE. PEOPLE ATTEND Netw Pictures Every Evening and Special Attractions vou sts. Ford Dadney **7 axo vou a __E Fourth Annual Bazaar. The Fourth Annual Bazaar of the Colored Young Women’s, Christian Association will open Dec. 12, and continue until Saturday, Dec. 17, at its new home, 429 T street northwest. ‘Lhe program for the six evenings is attractive. Admission to the bazaar is only 10 cents. BUWRNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD AND SILVER WATCH- _ ES, DIAMONDS, JEWEL- | RY, GUNS, MECHANICAL | TOOLS LADIES’ AND | SENTS’ WEARING APPAR- EL. OLQ GOLD AND SILVER | BOUGHT. UNREDEEMED PLEDGES FOR SALE, : 361 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. H. EK. FULTON’S LOAN OFFICE “” - No, 314 Ninth Street, N. W. Loans made on Watches, Dia- monds,, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. If you want to buy a good watch, diamond ring, or jewelry of any kind, look at our stock first. .You! Why pay to per cent, when yor can get it for 3 per cent, &. K. FULTON _ Telephone—Main 3148 ELGIN CREAM. ERY CO. + Wholesale and Retail - Dealers in : Buffer, Bags. Cheese. 4 .. Pea and Coffee... All orders Promptly attended to V. DAY SHREVE, Mer. 220.9th Street, Northwest R. S, Nichols, €. H. Fonville, R. D. Mullier, A. B. Mullier, R. W. Coleman and others also spoke. Those present _were Messrs. R. S. Nichols, James F. Armstrong, H. A. Pearson, R. A. Tilghman, W. H. Addi- son, F. M. West, C. H. Fonville, L. F. Litz, R, W, Gilliam, J. T, Slater, Ben. Harris, Sergt. Frank Coleman, Misses Griffin, Brown and Gardner and Mrs. J. F. Armstrong, Mrs. W. H.* Addison was named chairman of a committee of ladies to do some special community work in behalf of the school. James F. Arm- strong, R. S. Nichols and H. A. Pear- son, school trustees, were appointed to canvas the community in interest of the school, Cc. H. MIDDLETON DEAD. . Navy Employe, a Founder of Y. M. C. A., Expires as Result of Fall. Charles ie Middleton, 86 years old, an employe of the Navy Department, died the other day at Casualty Hospi- tal as a result of injuries received in a fall down a fight of steps at the Home Life Insurance Building, Fifth and G streets northwest, Saturday afternoon. Mr. Middleton was connected with the Ordnance Department of the Navy Department, which he had served con- tinuously since 1835. He was a native of Brooklyn, N. Y. He was one of the founders of the Y. M.C. A. Deceased taught school in this city a number of years before the late re- bellion. He was at that period pne of the most influential citizens, and was contemporary with the Rev. John F. Cook, Prof, James T. Fleete, John T. Johnson and Edward Ambush, who also taught successfully day schools T st.near7th,N.W. _ Tht Theatre for the People Week of Dec. 12 MATINEES;: TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY VAUDEVILLE Motion. Pictures . All Seats 10 Cents a The Family | Quality House - CHRISTIAN XANDER’S Unrivaled Assortment of Christmas Beverages 325 direct imported and domestic wines and distillates Suiting all purses —The stock of this establishment, dedicated to the Family trade enjoys national fame of being the foremost of its class. Its goods have been models of purity and quality for over 45 years. Abso- lute guarantee for excellence. Moderate wholesale prices. Great- est advantages for buying. . | 7 909 Seventh Street, N. W. . Phone Main 274 , | No Braftch Houses | — se: Annual Christmas Announcement . E. VOIGT _. E, VOIGT, Manufactaring Jeweler, 723 Seventh Street N. W., G and H. Established 1880. Telephone Main 2435, sidhiain Now that we are on the threshold of Christmas, it means a good deal. to trade with a firm in which you have the utmost confidence. ~~ It wall pay you to visit our store. We have satished thousands of cus- tomers—we can satisfy you. Our new line of Jewelry, diamonds, watches, clocks, silverware, cut glass, etc, surpasses anything we have heretofore shown. Why not call and make your selections, and leave us lay them away for you and deliver at the proper time. Prompt' delivery meant x whole loi, especially at the busy season of Christmas. ° SPECIAL HOLIDAY OFFER—Watches—We mention here but a few of our specials: Gentlemen's 20-year Gold-filled American stem winders and settets, $10. Ladies’ 20-year Gold-filled stem winders and setters, Sto. Gentlemen’s 14-k Solid Gold American stem winders and setters, as cheap as $25. Children's Solid Silver Watches, pin attachment, $3.50; reg- ular price, $4.50. ies’ Solid Gol atches, open face, $8.00. . Soll TAMOND Sg sine, BPs leasing for a Ci ean -—Nothing more pleasing for a Christmas offering t! diamond. We have Ladies’ diamond tings, $5.00 to $150.00. fades ae mond broaches, $5.50 to $1,000.00. Diamond ear tings, $15.00 to $500.00. Diamond scarf pins, $7.00 up. Diamond cuff buttons, $r05 up. Diamond studs, $10.00 up. We have Ladies’ handsome diamond tings, set in Tiffan: mounting, which we are selling at $25.00, This will make an appropriate Present for Christmas. Every stone a ball of fire. WEDDING RINGS.—We have been manufacturers of Wedding Rings for 30 years. All sizes and styles in stock. We would suggest. the Tiffany plain ring. The latest style. . ——— for colored youth. F This edition cattiee Several new SEAM A Som tg | features which materially improve the MRS. FAIRFAX AT FREEDMEN'S | Tara quruch materially improve the Ehoahatt ane entities. Mad deena ad Dr. Samuel Gray, of Martinsburg, W. Va. accompanied Mrs, Mildred Fairfax to this city, who is now in the Freedmen’s Hospital, and was op- erated on Monday morning by Drs. Gray and Warfield. Mrs. Fairfax is doing well. Her mother and husband are also in the city, stopping with Mts. Clark, 1223 T street northwest, and Dr. Gray is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Lee, 1203 T street northwest. Joining the Navy. ‘The second edition of “Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam,” by Mr. John H. Paynter, will be issued from the press of the Sudwarth Print- ing Company, Washington, D. C, about December 10, 1910. This edition carries Several new features which materially improve the general make-up of the volume with. out in any way detracting from or al- tering the original text, A “Foreword,” by Prof. W. E. Du- Bois, in his characteristic style, en- hances the intrinsic worth of the edi- tion. : Persons Sesion to order for holi- day presentation should do so at once. The book will be delivered postage free, upon receipt of.$1.00. Address John H. Paynter, zor 5tst St. N. EL i Ford Dabney’s. One of the most popular theaters in the city is Ford Dabney’s, oth and U Streets northwest. Everybody meets their friends at this popular theater. Ford Dabney’s songs have become popular. Mr. Hamilton, the genial manager, is still sick, but it is hoped that he will soon be himself again. Don’t fail to go to Ford Dabney’s. THE ONLY VICTIMS. An Amusing Adventure In the Surf on the West Coast of Africa Told by a Traveler. West Africa is known to all navigators for its few harbors and its heavy surf, which at certain seasons rages like a battle, defying the white man who would approach its shores. The author of "The Jungle Folk of Africa," Mr. R. H. Milligan, tells of a successful, and to the observers an amusing, effort to reach shore at a point where the surf did not seem to be impossible. One day when the beach seemed much better than usual the captain and the ship's surgeon ventured ashore. The captain afterward narrated the adventure of their landing to a small but enthusiastic audience. He said that after waiting outside the surf half an hour the headman suddenly gave the order, and in a moment they were in the breakers, riding on the top of one of them and speeding toward the shore at the rate of "seventy miles an hour." The captain was in the boat of the boat, well braced and cushioned. But when the boat struck the beach with the force of a railway collision the doctor was thrown violently over two thwarts into the captain's bosom, whom he clasped about the neck with a steel-like grip. The next moment another breaker picked the boat up and hurled it upon the beach, throwing both captain and doctor to a perfectly safe distance, where they sprawled upon the sand. The doctor, still hugging the captain's neck and very much frightened, exclaimed: "Oh, captain, dear captain, is there anybody killed but you and me?" BRAVE SOLDIERS Sacrificed Their Lives In an Attempt to Save the Colors. In days gone by the Zulus were the boldest fighters among all the natives of South Africa, and it was not until they had been defeated in several battles that they would live in peace with white people. In 1578 15,000 of the Zulus attacked and killed a regiment of British soldiers, and a most heroic deed was the attempt made by three British soldiers to save the two flags, or colors, belonging to the regiment. When it was seen that the Zulus were so many that there was no hope of keeping them at bay the colonel of the British regiment called to a young officer whose name was Lieutenant Melvill and said, "You will take charge of the colors, Melvill, and try to get away from here." The lieutenant saluted and took into his hands the two colors of his regiment. Then, with another officer and a soldier, all mounted on horses, he suddenly dashed away with his precious burden. They were at once seen by the keen sighted Zulus, however, and after a long chase the three gallant Englishmen, fighting to the last, were killed by the enemy. Some time afterward one of the flags was found near a rocky stream, where the heroes had fought and died, and it was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria. And in memory of the three brave soldiers who had died while defending it the queen placed a wreath of immortelles on the staff which held the flag—London Mall. Paganini's Cab. On awakening one morning at his hotel in Vienna, Paganini, the celebrated violinist, was informed that the cabman whom the previous evening he had employed to drive him to the concert hall where he was playing was waiting to see him. On being admitted to his presence the man, after having advanced poverty and a large family as an excuse for the request that he was about to make, prayed the great musician to make his fortune. "What do you mean?" demanded Paganini. "Authorize me to write in large letters on the back of my vehicle these two words, 'Paganini's Cab.'" was the answer. Consent was given, with altogether satisfactory results. Matrimonial Repartee She (in stern and rockbound accents) -You married me for better or worse, didn't you, Edgar? He-Er-um-yes, I suppose so, my love. She-Then what are you complaining about? I'm no worse than the average married woman, I can assure you! He (meckly)-Well, if that is the case, all I've got to say is I'm mighty glad- She (breaking in)-Glad? He-Yes. Glad I'm not a polygamist. Er-um-looks a trifle squally over to the northeast, doesn't it, Miranda? New York Times. Lincoln on Money "Lincoln," said a senator at a banquet in Washington, "had no great admiration for mere financial success. "Financial success," Lincoln once said, "is purely metallic. The man who attains it has four metallic attributes—gold in his palm, silver on his tongue, brass in his face and iron in his heart." Diplomacy. "Why do you insist on underrating the kind of golf you play?" "Because," answered the wise official, "there is no use of making a whole lot of people jealous and antagonistic over a little thing like golf."—Exchange. The Decisive Battles Some married men will contend that "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the Word" will never be complete until a few domestic scraps are added to the volume-London Telegraph. On the relief train that had been rushed to the scene of the railway wreck was a newspaper reporter. The first victim he saw was a man whose eyes were in mourning and whose left arm was in a siling. With his hair full of dirt, one end of his shirt collar flying loose and his coat ripped up the back, the victim was sitting on the grass and serenely contemplating the landscape. "How many people are hurt?" asked the reporter, hurrying up to him. "I haven't heard of anybody being hurt, young man," said the other. "How did this wreck happen?" "I haven't heard of any wreck." "You haven't! Who are you, anyhow?" "I don't know that it's any of your business, but I'm the claim agent of the road."—Chicago Tribune. The Musical Gamut. Guldo, a monk of Arezzo, in Tuscany, in 1000 A. D. was the inventor of the gamma "ut," or gamut, and the six notes "ut," "re," "ml," "fa," "sol," "la." These syllables were taken from the first three verses of the hymn of St. John the Baptist, "Ut queant laxis," etc. Without the use of the gamut a person could not in a little time become perfect master of plain song. Guldo says, in a letter which he wrote, "I hope they who come after us will not forget to pray for us, for we make a perfect master of singing in a year or two, whereas till now a person could scarcely attain this science, even imperfectly, in ten years." The gamut is the first note, but oftener taken as signifying the whole scale of music or series of sounds, rising or falling toward acuteness or gravity from any given pitch or tone. The Last Straw. An Atchison man has been married five years, and three times a day for five years, or, to be exact, 5,475 times, he has stepped to the dresser to brush his hair and has had to tip the mirror back to get a look in. While dressing for an evening out, his wife would keep the mirror seesawing back and forth, she pulling it out to see how her clothes hung in the back and the man pushing it back to adjust his tie and comb his hair, etc. Finally, in desperation, he bought a chiffoner for his own use, but one evening he went home grouchy and found his chiffoner turned around and the mirror tipped forward; his wife was using them both. This was too much, and, grabbing his heavily mounted military brushes, he slammed one at each mirror, muttered a swear word and disappeared.—Atchison Globe. The Conjurer Confesses. That "the hand is quicker than the eye" is one of those accepted sayings invented by some one who knew nothing of conjuring, or, as is more likely, by some cunning conjurer who almed still further to hoodwink a gullible public. The fact is that the best conjurer seldom makes a rapid motion, for that attracts attention, even though it be not understood. The true artist in this line is deliberate in every movement, and it is mainly by his actions that he leads his audience to look not where they ought, but in an entirely different direction. Mr. David Devant, who for a number of consecutive years has entertained London with his ingenious tricks, has said: "The conjurer must be an actor. By the expression of his face, by his gestures, by the tone of his voice—in short, by his acting—he must produce his effects."-St. Nicholas. How Houses Become Haunted. How Houses Become Haunted. Nothing is easier than for a house to acquire the reputation of being haunted, even in the absence of uncanny manifestations. Dickens shows us the children of the street clustering round the keyhole of the Old Curiosity Shop to look for "the ghost" within a few hours of Quillp's removal of the goods and the desertion of the house. And a correspondent used to live in a house near the center of a provincial town one room of which was believed by some to be haunted solely because the iron shutter that closed its window on the street side was never raised. The simple explanation was that this window was bricked up behind the shutter to secure privacy for the ground floor room in question—a drawing room lighted from the garden, on the other side.-London Chronicle. What They Lacked. There is a certain naval officer of the United States who is very much opposed to the use of profanity by the officers under his command. Indeed, he has been known severely to reprimand in private officers on his ships heard to address their men in profane terms. The following story is told concerning this admiral's command of a squadron engaged in target maneuvers in Magdalena bay, Lower California. The commanding officer observed one day that the men of his ship, the fagship, seemed to lag behind the crews of the other vessels of the squadron, being the last to finish the execution of a command or to carry out a maneuver. He mentioned this fact to his captain. Just as the latter was about to reply there came floating over the water from the vessel standing by the fagship a volley of oaths, the result of which was that there was some pretty hustling on the part of the men addressed. Glancing at his superior officer with a smile, the captain replied: "That's it, sir. You see, sir, my men don't get enough encouragement like that-"Harper's Weekly. ```markdown ``` Lost His Nerve. Many years ago a blacksmith near York, England, successfully performed the delicate operation of removing a cataract from an eye on several of his fellow villagers, says the London Chronicle. The fact became known to a doctor in the neighborhood, who so admired the blacksmith's skill that he provided the means for his education as an oculist. To the blacksmith the removal of the cataract was no more than a mechanical feat, but when he became acquainted with the structure of the human eye and its amazing delicacy he was so overpowered by the rashness of what he had done in ignorance that he lost his nerve, and with the fear of knowledge he insisted on returning to his anvil. An Undesirable Audience of One. An Undesirable Audience of One. In a series of incidents of adverture told in the Wide World-Magazine perhaps the most extraordinary is a story from Natal, wherein a lady describes how on a Christmas eve she went into a tiny church to practice a Christmas voluntary when she found a huge python, attracted by the music, standing close behind her, coll upon coll. To make matters worse, she was locked in, and her only safety was to continue playing and so charm the creature. Eventually the lady's brother returned and unlocked the church door. A little dog that ran in attracted the fatal attentions of the python, while his mistress escaped. The python was shot. "A Poor Post." One afternoon Browning went to call on Lady Kinloch and missed his way. A lady was standing on her doorstep, and he asked her to direct him to the house. She could not tell him, but offered to look it up for him in the directory and took him into the house, produced a directory, and together they found out what he wanted to know, and then she came out to the doorstep again so that she could point out to him the direction he had to take. He thanked her, went down the steps, hesitated and then turned and came back to her, saying: "Perhaps you may like to know to whom you have been so kind. I am a poor poet, and my name is Robert Browning." — Westminster Gazette. A Kindred Feeling. Justice Harlan of the supreme court was on circuit in West Virginia some years ago, when there was tried before him a case in which principal counsel was a lawyer whose head was quite devoid of hair. The day was cold and damp and the room in which the sitting was had was badly heated. It was not long before counsel had begun his argument that he said: "Your honor, I must pause long enough to request that the window opposite be closed more tightly. I feel the draft on my head." "The court sympathizes with you," solemnly assented Mr. Harlan. "The court has the same kind of a head."—New York World. Ample Reason. During the trial of a man who had made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide a lawyer had badgered the witnesses to an exasperating degree and evidently intended to pursue the same course with a meek appearing little Irishman who next took the stand. "You say you talked with the accused an hour after his attempt?" the lawyer demanded. "Ol did," was the direct reply. "And did he give any reason for at tempting to commit suicide?" "He did, an' it was a good reason." "Well, and what reason did he give?" "Sure, an' he said he wanted to kill himself." Pat answered, and for a moment even his honor could not control his laughter—Harper's Weekly. Lost Articles Department. Bridget, who had administered the culinary affairs of the Morse household for many years, was sometimes torn between her devotion to her mistress and loyalty to the small son of the house. "Bridget," said Mra. Morse, in a tone of wonder, after an inspection of the storeroom, "where have those splendid red apples gone that the man brought yesterday—those four big ones?" "Well, now, ma'am," said poor Bridget, "I couldn't rightly say, but I'm thinkin' if you were to find where my loaf o' bot gingerbread is likely thin, four red apples would be lyn' right on top of it, an' I'm only hopin' his little stummick can stand the shitrain."—Youth's Companion. Hannah More's Wedding Day. The cellbacy of Hannah More, the English writer, which gave her so much time to bend the powers of her mind to the interests of humanity, has always been a subject of surprise and discussion. A writer relates this circumstance: "She was early engaged to be married to a gentleman of family and fortune. The wedding day was fixed. The bride and her party moved off gayly to the church where the ceremony was to be performed, only to find that the lover was not there. The laggard comes late," thought the attendants. They miscalculated. He came not at all. A horseman rode up to the church door and handed a letter to Miss More. With melancholy apologies the faithless swain told her that he could not 'take the responsibility' of making her his bride. At the same time he offered any pecuniary remuneration in his power. "Whether the lady fainted or only pouted is not mentioned, but her relatives followed the business up with such promptness and spirit that the 'dastard in love' made a encounter upon the slighted lady of 1600 a year for life."—Exchange. The fashionable wedding presented a festive scene. Beautiful girls in gorgeous gowns were everywhere. The bride stood proudly beneath a canopy of choice exotics, beaming in her loveliness. "Isn't she just too sweet?" gurgled an elderly matron. "But who do you suppose is the man who is always at her side?" "I'm sure I can't imagine," replied another matron. Then, as a brilliant idea struck her, she remarked, "Oh, I guess it's only the bridegroom!"—Exchange. Crushed the Critic. He was very deferential, but he was a deacon in the church, and he felt that he had a right to criticise. "I hope you'll pardon me," he said, "if I suggest that your sermons are—ah"— "Too prosy, I suppose," suggested the minister. "Oh, no, not that, but too long." "But you mustn't blame me for that," returned the minister pleasantly. "If you knew a little more I wouldn't have to tell you so much"—London Scraps. To Make a Man Act Like a Fool To Make a Man Act Like a Fool. A man was considered a general ignorant by the concern for which he formerly worked. He came into our employ when we were obliged to take him on account of the scarcity of labor. It was not long, however, before he discovered that the firm appreciated suggestions. He proved a genius in his line, and his ideas were worth a good many dollars to us. I asked him one day why he did not present some of these ideas to his former employers, and his reply makes the point. "They treated me like a fool," said he, "so I acted like one."—System. Well Named. He arrived late and worn out at the twentieth hotel, after wandering nearly all around London to find accommodations, and was delighted to learn that actually the place was not full up. Next morning, however, he complained of the bed, and the landlord stiffly said that a duke had once slept in it. "Perhaps it was the Duke of Wellington," said the visitor, with a sneer. "Perhaps it was," returned the landlord. "No wonder they called him the 'Iron Duke,'" retorted the visitor—London News. A Careless Boston Burglar. A Boston burglar at midnight stealthily climbed a heavily carpeted stairway, a dim candle in hand, when the voice of the unseen mistress above called, "Who is there?" Abstractedly the intruder answered, "It's me," and then all was still. At this crucial moment that Boston burglar, suddenly overcome by the consciousness of one of the worst breaks of his life, lost heart, turned wearily about, descended to the basement, deliberately ate a small piece of cold chicken and sauntered away in deepest dejection from the back door—Boston Herald. Hang Your Hat on a Lead Pencil. Hang Your Hat on a Lead Pencil. Take a smooth hexagon lead pencil, one without either rubber or metal end, and place it against a door or window casing. Then with a firm, heavy pressure slide the pencil some three or four inches, and it will stay as if glued to the casing. You may now hang your hat on the end of the pencil. When you slide the pencil along the casing do it without any apparent effort, and it will appear to your audience as though you had hypnotized it. This is a very neat trick if performed right—Popular Mechanics. Dog·Spooka The phantom dog specter was one of the hardest of old English superstitions. Almost every county had its black dog which haunted its lonely spots and was the dread of every native. Most of them were regarded as devils, but some were held to be the spirits of human beings, transformed thus as a punishment. Lady Howard, a Devon notable of the days of James I., for instance, was said to be compelled to haunt Okehampton in the form of a dog as a punishment for her cruelty to her daughter.—London Chronicle. Oxygen and Mushrooms- One of the government experts attached to the department of agriculture describes a singular way of removing oxygen from the air by the aid of a plant. Inside a glass bell jar, suspended over water, is placed a mushroom, and sunlight is allowed to fall on the plant. The mushroom absorbs the oxygen from the air in the jar, and the carbonic acid formed during the process is absorbed by the water, which gradually rises in the jar to one-fifth of its height. The mushroom now dries up, but its animation is only suspended, as may be proved by introducing beside it a green plant, when it will again begin to vegetate, being nourished by the oxygen exhaled from the fresh plant—Pittsburgh Post. Fine Finish. The man who writes thrilling melodramas rushed into the manager's office in a state of great excitement. "I've got it!" he shouted triumphantly. "I've got it!" "Got what?" asked the surprised manager. "Why, the sensation of the year. In the third act of my new play there is a mill scene. Harold Headlight, the hero, casts the villain down into the yawning jaws of two great emery wheels." The manager grinned. "Emery wheels!" he chuckled. "Then, I suppose, he has a fine finish!" "Yes, very fine. In fact, he comes cut a polished villain."—Chicago News. "I'm just played out," complained the tooting horn. "That's nothing. I have that all gone, empty feeling," said the gasoline tank. But just then all were put into the garage and shut up.-Baltimore American. Barcastle. Sarcastle A young woman in London tendered the cabby the exact fare of a shilling at the end of a journey. "Because," was the rejoinder, "when you do marry, whoever gets you will have a treasure. You makes a bob go farther than any gal I know." Small Quarters For Moses. Donald is fond of Bible stories. His auntle was relating to him the story of Moses in the basket of bulrushes, when he earnestly inquired: Donald remarked incredulously, "Well, I'd 'a' thought he'd 'a' busted the basket."—Dellneator. Wretched Man. See the sorrowful man. The man has every reason to look pleasant. His home is a happy one. his business is successful, his children are good looking and well behaved, he has health and credit to burn and money in the bank, yet he looks as gloomy as a dyspeptic athelst. The day has come when he must give his desk its annual cleaning out-Newark News. Necessity Past. Congress had been asked would it please do.something for the Delaware, "Delaware?" repeated the members, with a puzzled air, "What's that?" "It's a river that Washington once crossed," explained an advanced representative of the people. "Well, he got across all right, didn't he?" responded the inquirers. "What's the use of improving the river now?"—Philadelphia Ledger. A Hole In Glass A hole may be cut or etched through glass readily by using hydrofluoric acid, says Machinery. The acid should be applied in the same way as etching acid, using wax to surround the portion of glass which is to be penetrated. Hydrofluoric acid is sold in wax bottles, as it cannot be kept in glass. It may be handled with a hard rubber dropper similar in construction to the ordinary glass medicine droppers. A Pretty Kettle of Fish. When the patient called on his doctor he found the good man in a state of great apprehension. "I've got all the symptoms of the disease you have," said the doctor. "I'm sure I have caught it from you." "What are you so scared about?" asked the patient. "Why, man," replied the doctor, "I don't think I can cure it."—Harper's Weekly. The Last Chance. An Italian gravedigger after digging a certain grave put in a bill that was exorbitant. When complaint of the overcharge was made to him he said: "Well, the corpse and I had a row five years ago over a cart I sold him, and I could never make him pay me what he owed. So, seeing this was my last chance, I thought I'd better take it." Took It Out on the Box. "What, you want a dollar for spending money?" exclaimed Mr. Tytes. "Look here, young man, when I was a boy of your age my father never gave me a dollar to spend foolishly. I was taught to consider myself lucky if I got a nickel." "Well," protested Bobby, "you don't need to jump on me about it. Tell your troubles to grandpa."—Cleveland Leader. No Help Needed. Visitor-I say, old boy, you are the most absurdly infatuated husband I ever saw in my life, considering how long you've been married. You praise every dish your wife makes, and yet her cooking is abominable. Host-'Sh! Don't speak so loud. I know her cooking is bad, but if I say a word she gets discouraged and sends for her mother. Official Corporal Punishment The Geratsche Zeltung in a recent issue reproduced a "royal decree" issued by the Grand Duke Heilrich XX. at Gratz, in December, 1844, to show that corporal punishment was practiced "officially" at that time. The document calls attention to the fact that "from sunset until midnight boys disturbed the peace" and ordered a special patrol to arrest all such offenders, "take them to the lockup and before a magistrate, and if found guilty to punish them with twenty blows, and that these be administered by two corporals with sticks." How Tommy Found It Tom Jackson said one morning at breakfast: "Hang it all! While I was weeding I dropped my Imperial Order of the Roosters pin on the lawn, and I've been looking for it now over half an hour. It's gone for good, I suppose." That night when Jackson sat down to dinner there was his pin beside his plate. "Bully for you!" said he. "Where did you find it, Martha?" "I let Tommy go barefooted this afternoon," said Mrs. Jackson quietly. "Yep, woman is certainly de cease of me beln' dis way. If me wiis hadn't lost her job, I'd had a home right now."—New Orleans Pixayuna. Hewitt—Lend me a dollar, old man. Jewett—I never lend money. Hewitt—Give me a dollar, then—New York Press. Farmer—What are you doing in my apple tree? Thief—Excuse me. I just fell off a balloon—Flegende Blatter. "Have you ever seen the prisoner at the bar?" "Yes, judge, and he can drink like a fish."—Harper's Weekly. "That man has done some mighty good things." "Yes; I was one of them."—Louisville Courler-Journal Teacher—Spring flowers bring forth what, Tommie? Tommie—Umbrellas, ma'am—Yonkers Statesman. A woman can thrill, as deeply over her preparations for housecleaning as a man getting ready to go fishing—New York Press. Judge—Is that your real name? Prisoner (who has been up before)—No, yer honor it's my "pen" name—Harryard Lampoon. Missionary—May I ask what course you intend to take with me? Cannibal King—The regular one. You'll follow the fish. Witness—I saw a man with one eye named Wilkins. Lawyer—What was the name of the other eye? Russian battle songs are written in minor keys, and instead of being brilliantly martial are sad, telling of the soldier's fate. The population of the earth at the time of Emperor Augustus was. estimated at 54,000,000. It is now estimated to be about 1,585,000,000. The horsepower of an engine can be found by the following rule: Square the diameter of the cylinder and divide by two. Grassboppers have neither lungs nor gills, but air enters breathing pores and is conveyed by tubes to all parts of the body. "Are you in pain, my little man?" asked the kind old gentleman. "No, sir," answered the boy "the pain's in me." Sadie—Say, honest now, do you like Maggie? Pauline—Well, she's got a good heart, an' she means real well, but"—Sadie—Neither do L—Exchange. Walter—Be careful of the soup, gentlemen. It is so hot that it has scalded both my thumbs—Meggendorfer Blatter. Moonshine has been found to have a marked effect on stammering. People so afflicted stammer most at the full of the moon—London Scraps. "Cool as a cucumber" is correct scientifically, for that vegetable usually has a temperature a degree less than the surrounding atmosphere. There are at least 214 groups of signs used in Chinese, each group containing from 5 to 1,354 separate characters. By a remarkable law of royal etiquette which has existed for a number of years at the court of Slam no person is permitted to sleep in an apartment situated above that occupied by the king. A deliberate breach of this rule has on more than one occasion been punished by death. While auntie arranged the pantry shelves her little niece handled the spice boxes and called each spice by name. Presently she said, "Auntie, I can read." "Can you, dear?" answered auntie. "Yes, auntie," came the reply, "but I don't read like you do. I read by the smell."—Delineator. The great editor carefully read the aspiring contributor's joke, then, looking up from the copy, inquired: "Where's the other?" "Other? Why, there isn't any other." "Um! I thought that Noah took two of every kind into the ark."—New York Times. A Sunday school teacher told his pupils at the end of his lesson that he would give them a summary. A little boy asked: What is a summary, please? "A summary is an abbreviated synopsis of anything," was the lucid answer. —Exchange. From the oldest known coin, bearing inscription 1200 B. C., to the latest products of the mint, the dates, emblems and inscriptions form a continuous history, corroborating and correcting written history, and give us the only likenesses we have of some of the great men of ancient times. There is a man in London who is a bit absentminded, but his politeness never falls him. He went to church last Sunday, and when the minister said "Let us pray" he responded in tones audible throughout the building. "Certainly, by all means."—London Tit-Bits. Little Elmer accompanied his mother to church and on the way had been cautioned to keep very quiet during service. But Elmer became restless and said in an audible whisper, "Mamma, when we get home can I go out in the back yard and holler just once—Exchange. We Irish have got the name of being an adventurous people. You will hear the Irish accent in every continent. There is no speech or language where our voice is not heard. We have helped to civilize every country except our own—Dublin Irish Homestead. M. HENNESSY 216 9TH ST. N. W. The Place For The People Pine Wires, Whiskies, Cigars, Etc. If you want first class goods for the holidays M. HENNESSY Is the place NEW YORK CANDY KITCHEN YORK CANDY KITCHEN NEW YORK CANDY KITCHEN 1506 7th St., N. W. 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After a shampoo or bath the hair, removing the dandruff; and it will curliest head of hair. use the comb is never heated. The steel heat-flame of the alcohol or gas heater, on the heating bar, then, after the bar is heated a turn of the handle. If a fringe has a cover and can be carried in a Alcohol Heater $0.50. Liberal terms to agents. Minneapolis, Minnesota. A. HINTON GREGORY TAILOR AND GENT'S FURNISHINGS 2242 7th Street, Northwest CLEANING, DYEING, ALTERING REPAIRING SUITS MADE TO ORDER Work called for and delivered J. A. PIERRE Orders Delivered Promptly J A. PIERRE Wholesale and Retail PHONE MAIN 378 Telephone North 528 William Cannon Wines, Liquors and Cigars LARODRICKER 1531 141h Street, D. W. Fine Laces Carefully Cleaned MLLE. R. E. BELL OBEYED THE DOCTOR. Did His Best In Keeping a Watch Upon the Patient, but He Practiced Substitution. The late Dr. Drummond, the habitant poet, once related an amusing anecdote indicative of the simplicity of the rural French Canadian. He was summering in Megantic county, Que., when, early one evening, he was visited by a young farmer named Ovide-Leblanc. "Bon soir, docteur," said Ovide by way of greeting. "Ma brudder Molse, heem ver seek. You come on 'house for see heem, doc?" Drummond, always kind hearted and obliging, complied with the request of Ovide and found the unfortunate Molse suffering from what he diagnosed as a fairly severe case of typhoid. "Wishing to provide Molse with some medicine," said the doctor-poet, "I asked Ovide to accompany me back to the village. The prescription compounded, I proceeded to instruct Ovide. The dose was to be administered every three hours during the night, and, trying to be as brief, plain and explicit as possible, I said: 'Be sure and keep watch on Molse tonight and give him a teaspoonful of this at 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock and at 3 and 6 in the morning. Come and see me about 9 o'clock in the morning.'" Ovide understood and departed. The following morning he again presented himself, and Drummond asked; "How's Molse? Did you do as I told you?" "Ma brudder Molse, I t'ink he some better dan las' night." replied Ovide. "I give heem de medecine, but I doan have no watch in d'house, doc. I tak d'leetle clock—d'one what mak d'beeg deesturb for get up. I keep eet on hees ches' all night. Tink eet do heem good dat, jus lak d'watch. What you t'ink, doc?"-Harper's Weekly. THE QUEEN BEE. Her Household Service the Most Perfect in the World. "We must go to the bee for the real solution of the servant question," said a housewife. "The queen bee's service is the most perfect in the world. Why, she even has servants who digest her food for her. "The queen bee is so entirely occupied in egg laying—she lays 2,500 eggs, twice her own weight, dally—that all other things must be done for her. "And so a corps of servants makes her toilet. This corps all day long cleans and brushes and polishes her person. It is as though her life were passed divinely in a beautiful perlor. "Another corps of servants has charge of the air she breathes. The air must be the purest, that her eggs may be the finest. So, standing in a circle about her, fanning with their wings, these bees make a living ventilating system. "Her most important servants are perhaps her feeders. Their training may be said to begin before birth, since they must be born, from specially molded eggs, with glands in their heads for the reception of bee milk, the chosen predigested food of the queen. The feeders stand always at attention, presenting, like a brimming cup, their head glands, swollen with predigested food, to the queen bee, busy at her task of laying a dozen eggs a minute."—New Orleans Times-Democrat The English Three R's. We are constantly being misunderstood by the foreigners, says Clarence Rook, and the Frenchman of whom the following story is told contrived to do us something less than justice. He had been on a visit to this country in order to study at first hand the social manners of the English people. On returning to his native land he was asked by a friend whether he had discovered the meaning of the mysterious "three R's." "Oh, I found out what they were on the first day of my visit!" said he. "And what are they, then?" "Rippin', rotten and right-of-" replied the triumphant Frenchman—London Mall. Had Them Tested The loss and recovery of a $6,500 pearl necklace recall the atory of a similar experience/which a New York woman had after the last Old Guard ball. She also missed her necklace when she arrived at her home, and the next day it was brought to her by a woman who had shared her carriage on her way home. Handling the necklace to her friend, the finder said: "So glad I found it. We always thought they were real"—New York Tribune. JUDGING A CIGAR. The Only Real Way to Find Its Quality Is to Smoke It—Smelling It Is Useless. On no point is the average smoker so ill informed as that of judging a cigar. Nine times out of ten, upon being handed a cigar, he will hold it to his nose, unlighted, sniff at the wrapper with a critical air and deliver his verdict in a self satisfied manner. This characteristic maneuver is always a source of amusement to any tobacco man who happens to observe it. There is only one way to ascertain the quality of a cigar, and that is to smoke it. No expert will pass judgment on a cigar until he has lighted it and smoked it well down toward the middle. The first and most important point upon which he bases his opinion is the "burn." Tobacco may have every other virtue, but if it does not hold the fire and burn evenly it is poor tobacco. Next in order of importance comes the aroma—the smoke must have a pleasing "smell," next comes the flavor—the smoke must be smooth and not "scratchy" or bitter. Then there is the color—rich brown, indicating a ripe leaf, well cured—and last is workmanship—good if the wrapper is put on smoothly and the "bunch" is made so that the cigar "draws" freely and is neither too hard nor too spongy, bad if the reverse.—Bohemian Magazine. ROMANCE OF HISTORY. These Things Read Like Legends, but Are Matters of Fact. A peasant girl called half witted did promise to defeat the victors of Agincourt and did it; it ought to be a legend, but it happens to be a fact. A poet and a poetess did fall in love and eloped secretly to a sunny clime; it is obviously a three volume novel, but it happened. Nelson did die in the act of winning the one battle that could change the world; it is a grossly improbable coincidence, but it is too late to alter it now. Napoleon did win the battle of Austerlitz; it is unnatural, but it is not my fault. When the general who had surrendered a republican town returned, saying easily, "I have done everything." Robesplierre did ask, with an air of inquiry, "Are you dead?" When Robesplierre coughed in his cold harangue Garnier did say, "The blood of Danton chokes you." Strauffard did say of his own desertion of parilament, "If I do it may my life and death be set on a hill for all men to wonder at." Disraell did say, "The time will come when you shall hear me." The heroic is a fact, even when it is a fact of coincidence or of miracle, and a fact is a thing which can be admitted without being explained.—G. K. Chesterton in London News. No Drums In the Middle Age As we come to the middle ages, when the nations of modern Europe were struggling into existence, we find that at first the drum was not used at all. So, although melody had been known and practiced for many centuries, rhythm had been quite forgotten, for what there is left to us of the music of the middle ages contains no bars, and we know that it was slowly and monotonously chanted, without the least accent. In the eleventh century, however, things began to improve, more particularly as the crushers brought into Europe all sorts of percussion instruments from the east. Various kinds of drums, tambourines and cymbals were then seen in Europe for the first time since the days of savages, and they have been used, with very little change, ever since.—St. Nicholas. An Epistolary Hint: In the letter from Boston was a special delivery stamp. "What did she send that for?" the woman wondered. "The information she wants can be sent in an ordinary letter. It won't need to be sent special." "That stamp," sald the man, "is a delicate hint to be quick about answering. It is a hurry up device used by many men. It is very effective. A two cent stamp does not always spur one on to any special effort, but a special delivery stamp means that the writer wants what he wants when he wants it, and the most dilatory correspondent alive is not going to let any grass grow between the scratches of his pen when answering."—New York Press. Mantle Rays. "There are X rays and X rays, and there are also rays from those mantle things that you put on gas burners to improve the light." The speaker, a photographer, pointed to a batch of fogged plates. "I know to my cost that there are mantle rays," said he. "For a month I stored new plates in a closet along with a mantle, and all of them got fogged. The mantle, you see, contained thorium, a radio-active substance that penetrates a cardboard plate box as easily as it penetrates glass. I didn't know that till my doctor told me so last week. My ignorance cost me over a hundred plates."—New York Press. Shunted. Budding Poet—Yes, sir. Is it worth anything to you? Editor (with emotion)—It's worth a gulosea if you will promise not to write anything more for publication until after this has been printed. I want your entire output, you understand. Budding Poet—I promise that, all right. When will it be printed? Editor—Never while I'm alive.—London Telegraph. A kindness done to the good is never lost.—Plantus. THE CONSULTATION. What Her Sister Heard When She Listened to the Doctors—It Was Not Expected. One of two sisters who lived together was suddenly taken with a lung attack she feared was serious, says the London Telegraph. She therefore sent for a specialist and asked her doctor to meet him. Talking over his coming with her sister, she said: "Mona, I wish I could know Sir Henry B.'s real opinion. Neither he nor Dr. M. will tell us if there is anything really wrong, but I would much rather know." Her sister replied: "Do not worry, dearest. You shall know everything, for I will go down to the dining room and stand behind the big oak screen and listen to every word they say." "And will you be sure to tell me, Mona?" "You may rely on me, dearest. I will tell you every word." "Even if I am not to get well?" "Even then, dearest," promised the loyal Mona. The hour for the consultation arrived, and the sister went to the dining room and, standing behind the great oak screen, ensconced herself and prepared to listen. By and by the two doctors were heard descending the stairs, and a moment later they came into the room. Walking over to the fireplace, the specialist sank into an easy chair and the local doctor sank into another. Then followed a moment's silence, broken by the specialist, who leaned a little forward. "My dear M.," he said slowly as he looked across at his colleague, "of all the ugly women that's the very ugliest woman I've ever seen in my life." "Is she?" replied the local doctor. "You wait until you've seen her sister." MAMMOTH MINERS. The Experts Who Prospect and Dig For Prehistoric Creatures. Mammoth miners are experts who know where to prospect for mammoths and how to dig them out, even as the mining engineer knows where to prospect for silver and how to extract it. In the west, in Alaska and in Siberia mammoth miners are always at work. They are always unearthly creatures that died 100,000 years ago. Siberia was the mammoth's true home. Siberia 100,000 years ago was one luxuriant forest. Here the fur covered beasts, with their ten foot trunks and their fifteen foot stature, swarmed. Then an earthquake removed a barrier range between Siberia and the Arctic ocean, and those low lying forests were inundated. All their animal and vegetable life was killed. The first of the drowned Siberian mammoths was found in 1799 by an Eskimo villager on the banks of the Lena. It was imbedded in a vast cake of ice. The villagers melted the ice, they feasted on the 100,000-year-old flesh, and then they sold the tusks. Only the bones remained when Zlotover of the Petersburg Imperial museum reached that outlandish village after a journey of 7,500, miles. He took the bones back to the museum, where you may see them mounted today. He bought the tusks from the ivory traders and fixed them on the skeleton, and the book he wrote about his find is still a text book among the mammoth miners of our day. Safeguarding Crime. It is inexplicable how those pessimistic carpers who are accustomed to hit all the minor chords with the loud pedal on can fall to see all about them the unmistakable signs of progress and the reddening dawn of a new day in the social yeast. And especially is this true in matters pertaining to crime. There is no doubt that the general standards of crime have been immeasurably raised of late. Nowadays a man can do almost anything and get away with it, provided he can arouse the sympathy of the special lady writers and pay the experts. Ah, brothers, who can say that all this does not make for the general uplift? How can we hope to realize the better things of life until crime has been made perfectly safe?-Life. Sea Air. At a meeting of the French Therapeutical society M. Laumonier showed that the therapeutic effect of sea air on the coast is quite different from that of the open sea—l. e., twenty or thirty miles out. On the coast the effect tends toward excitement and congestion and, moreover, is irregular in its action. Out at sea it is tonic and regulating, and in addition the patient gets quiet, a regular life and a continuous bath of pure air. These advantages are not so patent on board great liners on account of the vibration and the smell from the engines, but on a sailing ship they are evident. Chinese Idea of Government. Here is a Chinese idea of prosperity in a nation: When the sword is rusty, the plow bright, the prisons empty, the granaries full, the steps of the temple worn down and those of the law courts grass grown, when doctors go afoot, the bakers on horseback and the men of letters drive in their own carriages, then the empire is well governed. "Dearest, what did your father say when you told him I loved you?" "He didn't say anything, Harold; simply went over to the gymnasium and arranged for a course of boxing lessons."—Pittsburg Press. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force.—Emerson. Lincoln Stuck to His Selection on a Hospital Chaplain Despite Religious Views. The nomination of a Mr. Shrigley of Philadelphia, a Universalist, for the position of chaplain for the hospital was not met with favor on all sides, and a delegation of protestants went to Washington to see President Lincoln on the subject. The following interview was the result: "We have called, Mr. President, to confer with you regarding the appointment of Mr. Shrigley of Philadelphia as hospital chaplain." "Oh, yes," replied the president. "I have sent his name to the senate, and he will no doubt be confirmed at an early date." One of the young men replied, "We have not come to ask for the appointment, but, to solicit you to withdraw the nomination." "Ah," said Lincoln, "that alters the case. But on what grounds do you wish the nomination withdrawn?" The answer was, "Mr. Shrigley is not sound in his theological opinions." The president insisted, "On what The president inquired, "On what questions is the gentleman unsound? "He does not believe in endless punishment. Not only so, sir, but he believes that even the rebels themselves will be finally saved," was the reply. "Is that so?" inquired the president. The members of the committee responded, "Yes, sir." "Well, gentlemen, if that is so and there is any way under heaven whereby the rebels can be saved, then, for God's sake and their sakes, let the man be appointed." Mr. Shrigley was appointed and served until the end of the war—Boston Post. THE GREAT BOMBARDMENT. A Constant Rain of Missiles Upon the World's Atmosphere. The regions of space beyond our planet are filled with flying fragments. Some meet the earth in its onward rush; others, having attained inconceivable velocity, overtake and crash into the whirling sphere with loud detonation and ominous glare, finding destruction in its molecular armor or perhaps ricocheting from it again into the unknown. Some come singly, vagrant fragments from the infinity of space; others fall in showers, like golden rain, all constituting a bombardment appalling in its magnitude. It has been estimated that every twenty-four hours the earth or its atmosphere is struck by 400,000,000 missiles of iron or stone, ranging from an ounce up to tons in weight. Every month there rush upon the flying globe at least 12,000,000,000 iron and stone fragments, which, with lurid accompaniment, crash into the circumambient atmosphere. Owing to the resistance offered by the air few of these solid shots strike the earth. They move out of space with a possible velocity of thirty or forty miles per second and, like moths, plunge into the revolving globe, lured to their destruction by its fatal attraction. The moment they enter our atmosphere they ignite, and the air is plied up and compressed ahead of them with inconceivable force, the resultant friction producing an immediate rise in temperature, and the shooting star, the meteor of popular parlance, is the result. A Subtle Hint. A representative in congress, who is the father of several bright girls, tells a story whereof one daughter is the main figure. "For a long time," says the representative, "I had the bad habit of hanging about the lower floor when the girls had men callers. One evening I had settled in an easy chair in the reception room just off the drawing room when one of my girls, who was talking to a bright chap from our own state, called out: "Dad! "What is it, daughter? "It's 9 o'clock, the hour when Tom and I usually go into committee."—Harper's Weekly. When an Ostrich Kicks "The only safe place in the neighborhood of a kicking ostrich is just behind it," said a zoo keeper. "An ostrich can kick a mule to death, but its kicks are delivered at an angle of 45 degrees. Within those 45 degrees, right abaft the 'pope's nose' of the bird, there is absolute safety. On the ostrich farms of California, when the herds are being driven, you will always see the ostrich boys holding on to the tails of bad kickers. The kickers tear along, and their scaly legs shoot out like piston rods, but the boys in the shelter of the pope's nose are safe."—New Orleans Times-Democrat Condemnation. "What do you think of members of European aristocracy as sons-in-law?" asked the old time friend. "Well," answered Mr. Cumrox, "the way their relatives boss them around indicates that they ought to make easy husbands."—Washington Star. The Idiotic Affair Irate Parent—Am I to understand there is some idiotic affair between you and that impecunious young ass. Lord Bilaris? Fair Daughter (very sweetly)—Only you, papal—Illustrated Bits. For Good. It never seems to occur to persons who are getting married that they ought to take each other for good as well as for better or worse.-Philadelphia Record. --- Pedro Domecq's Amontillado 1878 One of the 19 varieties in stock A dry Spanish Sherry of remark able quality. $1 full qt. Only at Christian Xander's The Family Quality House 909 7th St Phone M. 274 NoBranch Houses FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR, IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PENIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINKY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAVY, BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25+ AND 50+ BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. • SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PACES, SMALL SIZED BOTTLE, 25+ LARGE SIZED BOTTLE, 50+ THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST. DEPT. 15 CHICAGO, IL. AGENTS WANTED. FOR RENT By Thos. Walker, 506 5th St. N. W. FOR RENT—Good six room house, large front and back yard, on Sheriff Road, Deauwood, D. C., near car line; ten dollars per month. By Thos. Walker, 506 5th street northwest. FOR RENT—One house on Ainger avenue, Garfield, D. C., six rooms, beautifully decorated; stable, chicken house, wood sheds, large front and back yards, good well of water. Rent, $12.00 per month. By Thos. Walker, 506 5th street northwest. FOR RENT—Five room house on Ainger avenue, Garfield, D. C.; large front and back yards. Rent, $7.00 per month. By Thos. Walker, 506 5th street northwest. Double room; furnished or unfurnished. Address 1424 Corcoran street northwest. The Woman's Exchange. Notions. School Supplies, etc. Gents' Furnishings. 465 Florida avenue northwest. Also News Depot; all papers. Cigars and Tobacco. Phone N. 1168. Where to Purchase Christmas Goods. The patrons of The Bee will want to know where to purchase the best goods for their money during these hard times. The Bee always publishes a list of the best houses in the city. Peter Grogan Sons Co., whose large advertisement will be seen on the eighth page, is one of the oldest firms in this city, where the patrons of The Bee may find anything they want in the line of furniture. Now is the time to call and inspect the line of goods in this store. Everything in the furniture line will be found in this store. House & Hermann is the next place to go if you are in doubt. No better place and no more accommodating clerks can be found. E. Voigt, 725 Seventh street, is the place to go for all kinds of jewelry. Don't fail to read the list of what he has, and call at once before the rush. Sellinger's is the next place to go. F. near Ninth street, northwest, if you are in doubt. At either place you will be satisfied. Fulton, 314 Ninth street northwest, and Burnstine, 361 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, are the places to go to replenish your pockets. They are liberal lenders. Holtman's, 491 Pennsylvania avenue, is where you must be well shoed before you go on your tramp. The best shoes in the city for ladies and gentlemen. L. A. Rodnicker, 1551 14th street northwest, should catch your eye. Millie Bell is prepared to put your clothing in fine trim. Call and inspect her parlors. The Candy Kitchen, 1506 Seventh street, is where to go if you want to please the babies at home. All kinds of candies can be found at this place. All new. J. A. Pierre will keep you warm while the cold spell is on. Get your wood and coal now. Call him up, 454 New York avenue northwest. Madame J. P. H. Coleman, 643 Florida avenue, will make you look pretty and sweet. Just read what she can do for your wife and girls, as well as for the men. Don't fail to see her. Xander, 907 Seventh street, is the quality house, where you will find the best brands of whiskies on the whole- A. ALL Just come into our great home-furnishing store and let us show you how economically all that is necessary can be bought from us. Let us explain our method of selling to prove that you can best afford to buy according to principles that we have spent years in perfecting. We want to give you home comfort. We want to give you every bit of value that your money can possibly buy. We want to arrange an account so that you can have all the goods desired at once. And we will arrange to make that account payable at such intervals and in such amounts as will suit your circumstances. Don't get the idea that you are paying an extra price for the help we give. Your own eyes will give you proof that the prices which you find marked in plain figures on every article are no higher than those of cash stores. HAIR VIM TRADE MARK HAIR-VIM is an ideal and elegant hair dressing. Especially prepared for persons who appreciate the ideal and elegant appearance of their hair. It makes the hair soft, silky and glossy, and greatly promotes its luxuriant growth. It cures dandruff, stops falling hair, and prevents baldness by completely destroying the dandruff germ. 25cts the box; the bottle, by mail, 30 cts. HAIR-VIM SOAP is cleansing in its effect and beautifying in its results. City Hall Restuarant In the In the U.S. COURT HOUSE —We give the best meals and have the coolest and most pleasant dining room in summer and the warmest in winter. —If you want first class meals don't fail to call. GEO. B. ALTORFER, PROP- sale plan. M. Hennessy, 216 Ninth street, always welcomes his friends. William Cannon will have special bottles of Old Purissima. 1225-27 Seventh street northwest is his place of business. Mrs. S. E. Wormly, 465 Florida avenue northwest, will furnish you fine cigars and tobacco. Anything your children want in the line of school supplies, notions, etc. Don't fail to call. Howard Theater and Ford Dabney will give you all the pleasure you need during the holiday season. Ed. Allen, William Meehan and Sam Stewart should not be overlooked. They are the best people in the city. After all of this, should you need an undertaker, you may call up J. H. Dabney, William H. Winslow, or the HOUSE and HERRMANN Especially adapted for shampooing the hair, and fills every requirement for use in the toilet, bath and nursery. 25cts the cake. BEAU-TE-VIM CREAM—Is a restorer, preserver, beautifier and bleach for the skin. Lubricating the surface, giving it life and adding brilliancy to the complexion. 25cts the box. OWL CORN SALVE—A panacea for all foot evils. One box convinces the most skeptical. Try it. 10 cts. a box. All preparations on sale at all first-class drug stores. If your druggist ```markdown ``` store on payment of a deposit. WHEN IN DO HOUSE and I 7th and I Streets, N. W. People's Friend. Any of the three will give you firstclass service. Before calling for the undertaker consult Board & McGuire, Dr. Morse or Gray & Gray. You may not have need for the above if you consult the above druggists in time. ```markdown ``` We make a reality of her dream of a home Home comfort is the fondest hope of every woman. As a girl she may dream of elegance and luxury, but a few years of married life will teach her that just plain home comfort and attractive home surroundings will work wonders in bringing harmony and happiness into every-day life. Wealth is not a requisite to this end, nor even any considerable amount of ready money. We make home comfort possible for people of very moderate means. Our prices are not fixed according to our estimate of the customer. You needn't ask a price here—read it for yourself on the tag—make your selections without a word about when or how you wish to pay. When your buying is completed we'll arrange the account to your satisfaction. You may also feel absolutely certain that whatever we sell to you will give satisfactory service, for our personal guarantee means that everything must be right after you have given the test of actual use. To those who are not interested in the home-furnishing proposition we want to suggest that our stock contains hundreds of the most acceptable Christmas remembrances. Many of your gifts may come from here, and by using an open account you will have no call for an immediate outlay of cash. GROW hasn't this, drop us a card. Active agents wanted everywhere. Liberal commission paid. Braids puffs and transformations made to order. All grades of hair perfectly matched. Free advice given for your hair needs. Hair-Vim Chem. Co., Inc. Successor to Columbia Chemical Co., Newport News, Va. Mrs. J. P. H. Coleman, Phar. D., president and manager, 643 Florida avenue northwest, Washington, D. C., Phone N. 3259-M. Thousands of Useful and Beautiful Furniture Gifts for Every Room in the House Our enormous holiday stocks, attractively displayed throughout the seven floors of our great establishment, are now in complete readiness to meet your every want. Practical and useful things, as well as the ornate and beautiful, abound in every department. Early selection, giving you time for deliberation and careful choosing, will be greatly to your advantage; and we will lay aside, and deliver later, any article in our DUBT, BUY OF HERRMANN ```markdown ``` Complete Housefurnishers THE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE 465 Florida Ave. N. W. Notions, School Supplies, Gents' Furnishings, Cigars, Tobacco, and News Depot. Mrs. S. E. Wormley, Proprietor. Phone N. 1168. 义 es are not fixed according to the customer. You needn't read it for yourself on the selections without a word, or you wish to pay. When you deleted we'll arrange the account. We also feel absolutely certain we sell to you will give satisfaction your personal guarantee means must be right after you have actual use. Who are not interested in the proposition we want to suggest contains hundreds of the most unusual remembrances. Many of them from here, and by using a will have no call for an immediate. Peter C. AND SON The People Money Saved Northwest $50 Saved to you WE DO FOR YOU FOR $75 WILL $125 TO $150 FOR. YOUR SAVING WORTH SAVING? WHILE? $75 What I have What we want What we will Handsome casket, black cloth,ender, embossed, plush-covered handles, engraved name plate, pillow; outside case; grave; three mains by expert embalmers, whoing of door; directing funeral; use ALL COMPLETE. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. CONSULT. Prompt and personal attention Shipping bodies carefully at. Remember the Number, 645 Florida The North-West fixed according to our order. You needn't ask a lot yourself on the tag—without a word about how to pay. When your buy-arrange the account to absolutely certain that you will give satisfactory and guarantee means that at after you have given interested in the home-we want to suggest that rewards of the most acceptances. Many of your love, and by using an open call for an immediate Peter Groga AND SONS CO. The People's Friend Saved Money Northwest Underground Saved to you Outrigg YOU FOR $75 WHAT OTHERS GOT FOR. YOUR SAVING IS $50, TO SAVING? WHILE? 75 What I have furnished for What we furnish for What we will furnish for casket, black cloth, polished oak, whipped, plush-covered casket, trimmed, saved name plate, cream or white case; grave; three carriages, hearse, embalmers, who restore life-like and directing funeral; use of funeral parlor. DELETE. SATISFAC-ENTEED. CONSULT US. All personal attention day or night. Bodies carefully attended to. Number, 645 Florida avenue Northwest. Peter Grogan AND SONS CO. The People's Friend Money Saved Money Saved Northwest Undertakers $50 Saved toyou Outright $50 WE DO FOR YOU FOR $75 WHAT OTHERS CHARGE YOU $125 TO $150 FOR. YOUR SAVING: IS $50, TO $75. IS IT WORTH SAVING? WHILE? $75 What I have furnished for What we furnish for What we will furnish for $75 Handsome casket, black cloth, polished oak, white, gray or lavender, embossed, plush-covered casket, trimmed, complete, six handles, engraved name plate, cream or white satin lining and pillow; outside case; grave; three carriages, hearse; embalming remains by expert embalmers, who restore life-like appearance; draping of door; directing funeral; use of funeral parlors. North-West Undert The North-West Undertakers' 645 FLORIDA AVE., N. W. J.D.O'Connor J.D.O'Connor Wines, Liquors AND Cigars 1500 Seventh Street, Northwest WITH COM WILLIAM 20th and L --- --- Wines, Liquors AND Friend Money Saved Undertakers Outright $50 OTHERS CHARGE YOU GIVEN IS $50, TO $75. IS IT Finished for Fish for Furnish for Finished oak, white, gray or lav- et, trimmed, complete, six m or white satin lining and images, hearse; embalming re- store life-like appearance; drap- uneral parlors. or night. led to. Que Northwest. ALEXANDER HENSON, JR. Manager. Undertakers' WITH COMPLIMENTS OF WILLIAM MEEHAN 20th and L Sts. N. W. PHONE NORTH 1415