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The Washington times., 1902-10-16
DISTRICT OFFICIALS
BEAR NEEDLESS BURDEN
Civil Commissioners Bonds
May Be Reduced.

The amount of the bond required by
been the subject of some discussion at
the District Building within the past
lew days. Under the provisions of the
act OF 1878, establishing the present
form of government. the bond is fixed
at S50, 900.
Owing to the fact that the Engineer
Commissioner is an officer of the
United States Army no bond is required
OF him, though he has equal responsibility
with the civil Commissioners in the
municipal government. In fact, his re-
sponsibility is greater than theirs, as ii
IS under his supervision that the con-
tracts for public work are written and
the specifications made ready for sign
ing. In a majority of instances. it is said.
the work of the civil Commissioners is
a clerical one. they affixing their sigma
lures without full knowledge of the con-
tents of the papers.
A few years ago, by act OF Congress-
a disbursing officer was created for the
District. He is heavily bonded. and is
intrusted with paying out all the money
for the District under disbursements.
Bond Not Necessary.
1t Is held, therefore, by lawyers and
others that requiring bonds from the
civil Commissioners is no longer neces-
sary 1t puts needless burden upon
them, costing each of them $3.50 per an
mum to the company giving the bond.
If it is held that certain responsibility
attaches to the signing of contracts ii
is said TO be clear that the bond of $780,
600 is greater than is necessary, and
should be reduced at least to $40, 1000.
On the other hand. it is held by many
that the whole matter could be safely
lntrusted to the honor of the civil Com |
as it is to the Engineer
commissioner, and that the burden OF !,
the bond should be removed entirely.
The latter is the view now held by the
commissioners themselves and by most
'f the lawyers of the District service.
The Washington times., 1902-10-16
STREET LIGHTING

Low tide. go a. M. and 90 D. m
High tide. SO a. m. and Z p d. IN
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SAME DATE LAST YEAR.

Highest temperature, p. M. co
Lowest temperature, a. m. 80
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AAfUSEMENTS

Lamps lighted today. .5:5S D. IN
Lamps out tomorrow ow.5:l9 a. m
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WEATHER INDICATIONS.
TEMPERATURES.

Fair today and tomorrow; variable
winds.
The Washington times., 1902-10-16
ESt,ITpcIoNc

Norfolk ard Washington line for Fort
Monroe aad Norfolk at $50 p. m.
Chesapeake Beach-See schedule In
der Railroads and Steamboats," for
time.
Trains leave Pennsylvania Avenue and
Thirteen -and-a-half Street for Alex
andria and Arlington every nalf hour;
Mount Vernon hourly, 10 a. m. to p. m.
The Washington times., 1902-10-16
TIDE~TABLE,

Sun rises $40 am. Sun sets. 5:19 pm
Moon rises........ Moon sets.5:2l a. m.
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THE Sun AND THE MOON

MAXIMUM 63
Minimum Al
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Art Department-FirstF Floor-section B.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
TID-BITS FROM. HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE /
TIDES OF WHISPERS
New Orleans Times-Democrat. Z


Speaking of whiskers,' said an old police
officer, 81 suppose criminals resort to the use
of whiskers for Disgusting purposes more than
to any other method of concealing their iden-
tity. recall rather curious case which
developed in southern city a few years ago,
and whiskers played a rather curious part in
the business, The president OF a bank had
been chloroformed and robbed In his room at
a hotel. Suspicion pointed to young physi-
clan who wore a rather full beard The police
took the matter up. The next day the physi-
clan who had been spotted appeared on the
streets without his whiskers. The police
finally went to his house and he was placed
under arrest. He was asked when he had his
beard shaved off He said very promptly
that it was on the same evening that the
robbery was committed There is no secret
about the business he said to the police. L
got the barber to cut my Whiskers off, and l
brought them home to my wife, as I always
do, and suppose she has them now. Yes,
have them,' said the wife, who was in the
room at the time, and she hustled off after a
little work basket, which she kept in her
bedroom. Here are the Whiskers, she said
on her return. You see,' she said, seeing
tina. the officers were little puzzled, my
husband always brings me his whiskers when
he has them cut off and I make little tides
out of them,' and she began to display the
little things that she had made out of her
husbands whiskers. The joke was on the
police. They had gone off false trail,
and they got out of the serape the best way
they could. They apologized rather awk-
wardly, and the throw-down was so violent
that they actually quit working on the case
and they never did find out who robbed the
banker" .->z-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
Nat Turner'S SLAVE Rebellion
II Forgotten Page of History

Colonel James Webster, chief Of police OF
Alexandria, Va, has been giving the Wash
ington Times some interesting "reminiscences
OF slave days. He gives a graphic account
Of Nat Turner'S slave uprising in Virginia
in 1880:
About 1880 certain planter in southern
Virginia had negro house servant named
Nat Turner, whom his children had taught
to read. In the course OF his reading Nat
FELL In with abolition organ that so In
famed his mind that he proceeded at once
to plot an instruction OF the slaves and a
general uprising OF negroes all over the
state. Communicating his designs to the ne
sroes on the plantations for miles around.
he arranged for a big barbecue on certain
day at point in the woods distant from any
farm house. When the came, the negroes
gathered to the number Of 200 or more. armed
with every variety of weapon. from guns to
hatchets and pitchtorks.
At signal from Turner these negroes
sailed forth, falling on the unsuspectinS
whites, sparng neither age nor sex. At one
house they killed all the inmates except
baby. which Turner happened to overlook.
and which he remembered after the mob left.
He ordered one OF his men-a negro named
Hswkins-to go back and kill the infant.
This Hawkins did, beheading the child with
the only weapon ne had-a Ratchet. , -
So sudden and unexpected was this on
slaught that the negroes killed sixty whites
before the latter took the alarm. When the
alarm began spreading. thirty whites armed
themselves and started to meet the negroes.
while runners we're sent for the nearest body
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
GAVE A FORTUNE
TO THOSE in NEED
Charity Work Of the Late Harvey W. Brown
Was Eccentric, but Extensive---Some Strik-
ing Features of the Life Ended This Week.

Harvey w. Brown, whose death took
place this week, was q man Of peculiarly
rsticent character. He disliked to talk
about himself. even to his closest friends.
and seldom could he be induced to refer
to Incidents Of his early life. Publicity in
any form he abhorred, and although a
liberal donor to charities that appealed
to him. he always made it condition of
his gifts that his name appear on no sub
scription list and be printed In no news
paper. He carried this dislike of publicity
to such an extent that for the past fifteen
years he had steadily refused to enter a
photograph gallery; and the picture
photograph gallery.
The full extent of his philanthropies will
never be known; but men who were close
to Mr.. Brown say that the amount easily
reached $4,000 or $4,000 a year, with the
latter figure probably the nearer correct
Of the two. Within the past fifteen years
he gave away more than 100000. and with
so little ostentation that, SO far as his
fellow citizens knew, the amount might
have been $40 instead. An institution to
which Q has given largely Is the; Home for
Children and Aged women, on Stevens
avenue.
Made Good Friends Loses.
His friends knew Mr.. Brown as man
whose advice in financial matters it was
advisable to follow; and to whom they
could turn when financial difficulties be-
set them. An instance Of his conscien
tiousness in business affairs is afforded by
an incident which occurred in 1888. Prior
to that date Mr.. Brown had invested
heavily in the stock Of several Mime
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
TWO GREAT SMOKERS
London Tit Bits,


About ten years ago a well-knOwn Austrian
countess, whose name is one of the most
honored among her country's nobility, had
the misfortune to be robbed of her smoking
OUTFIT while on journey from Vienna to
Budapest. The police issued list of the
stolen articles, which ran as follows: 'Onc
gold cigarette case, meerschaum mouthpiece,
set in gold; an aluminium cigarette case, an
Irish pipe almost black in appearance), gold
mounted, with an onyx mouthpece; silver
match box; gold cigarette pipe, four plain
cigarette cases in gold. silver and platinum,
and one set with diamonds and rubies.''
Needless to say, this high born lady was an
ardent devotee to the weed that soothes.
With her smoking had become an absolute
craze, and she might well be considered the
champion smoker of the aristocracy.
An Englishman holding high position in the
consular service Of the United States Of Mexi-
co claims to have smoked for the past eigh-
teen years, on an average, sixty "home-
made" cigarettes a day. Hardly ever seen
without a cigarette between his lips, he
smokes even between each course when din
ing. According to his own calculation he
uses about w pounds of tobacco every week
for his cigarettes. This means that since 1889
he has consumed more than 12A hundred
weight Of the weed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04

apolis banks, and he advised his friends to
DO likewise. Then the boom broke and
bank stock went down. Friends who had
acted upon his advice were heavy losers,
and some of them could i'll afford the loss,
Mr.. Brown, however, remembered this;
and to all whom he could persuade to ac-
cept 1T, he insisted upon making up the
difference between their original invest
ment and the amount for which they were
compelled to close out theiE holdings.
The obligation was merely one Of senti-
ment, but with him 1t was binding.
The Rev. William Wilkinson, to whom
Mr.. Brown gave much money for his char
tiles, figured in one incident showing the
disinterested liberality of the dead
philanthropist. Mr.. Wilkinson called upon
Mr.. Brown, one day, and asked for do
nation to help support poor family of
his parish The president of the gas
company put his hand in his pocket and
drew out two twenty dollar gold pieces,
which he turned over to his caller. When
the divine started to thank him he was
interrupted with: "You shouldn't thank
me. got that money from Mr.. P. o.
Kerr, up ct the Minneapolis club, last
Thank him." Mr.. Wilkinson didn't know
Mr.. Kerr and said SO. Afterwards he
saw the joke.
Not a social man in the ordinary sense
Of the term, Mr.. Brown was still fond of
his club, and was familiar figure to the
habitues Of the Minneapolis club, of which
he was a member. AS a usual thing he
lunched there, but more often than not.
he was alone. and he seldom encouraged
anyone to join him. However, though Of
q retiring disposition, he was brilliant
talker on occasion: and none better than;
he knew how to entertain q party OF
friends when he really set himself to do
It. He enjoyed friendly game Of cards.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
RICH MEMS FUNERALS

When a rich man dies his death assumes
an Importance in dollars and cents which, to
the man who lives all his life with the pros
peot OF being laid away for his long sleep
at cost OF not over 500. seems enormous.
Though the millionaire cannot take his wealth
beyond tho grave he frequently takes con-
siderable amount Inside the doors Of the
tomb. The coffin in which Ii Hung Chang
was buried recently was one which that willy
old diplomat had had made to suit his fancy,
and had carried around with him for many
years. It was beautifully ornamented with
gold and precious stones and was valued at
$65, 900. The widow of millionaire named
Hitler lavished $4,000 on the coffin in which
she buried the body Of her husband. The
coffin Was OF exquisitely carved mahogany
profusely ornamented with solid gold and
lined with rare silk that cost $65 a yard.
q tomb, the cost CT which Is said to have been
Nearly all millionaires spend great sums upon
the mausoleums wher they and their family
are to rest at last. The great Mackay and
Vanderbilt mausoleums are examples Of this,
and Senator Clark Of Montana has built him
S7500Q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
HOW CLIPPINGS COST And CORRUPT

every mention Of his name, ard then to go
to an out-of- the-way place and make himself
a national hero. He forgot all about the con-
tract he had left behind, aid when he re-
turned to New York the clipping bureau pre-
scented him with several tons Of complimentary
notices and bill for about fourteen years
salary.
Richard Croker subscribes to only uncom-
plimentary notices about himself, but occa-
sionally finds that those are SO numerous that
they come high
Channcey Depew spent several thousand
dollars in clippings until he found it cheaper
to engage man to do the work.
Senator Platt will not pay for any mere
references to his name such among those
present. or 'people who were invited" but
will take only the real article-editorials dis
cussing his public acts.
Russell Sage runs his own clipping bureau
1t is not among the big public men that
the bureaus find their most profitable Gus
toners The newly arrived and the strus-
Cling and ambitious the ones who will
pay highly for the services these institutions
render They are said to have excited more
ambitions more thirst for publicity, more
craving for notoriety> than any other agency
connected with the press. Yet they have their
useful side and they have doubtless come
to stay.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04

Of state militia. They met the negroes in an
old field. One volley was sufficient to dis
.perse them. Each and every one OF the 2OO
was loaded down with plumber and when
they turned and fed, the battlefield was
strewn with clothing. hnery and all manner
of loot from the houses they had plundered.
Those involved In this uprising were hunted
down on the arrival Of the state troops and
severely dealt with, but Turner escaped TO a
cave, where he was fed by sympathizers TOR
months A reward Of $1,000 was offered TOT
him, and one day a man out hunting saw
Turner emerge from the cave. he covered
him with his gun, marched him into the near
est town, turned him over to the officers and
received the reward
Turner was hung publicly, the planters LOT
miles around bringing their negroes to the
scene to see him executed. This was to give
them an object lesson in submissiveness.
Southampton, Va. was the place where Iur-
ner was hanged. The moose was suspended
from q tree and Turner was made to stand
up in q wagon, which was driven from under
him when the moose was adjusted around his
neck.
This affair caused more excitement than
anything that ever occurred in Virginia. The
excitement over the John Brown raid ana
the civil war was nothing compared with It,.
Laws were passed by both the District OF Co
lumbia and Virginia prohibiting negroes from
gathering for any purpose. they were not
even allowed to attend church. Three ne
groes caught talking together and unable to
give a satisfactory account OF themselves
were shot
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04

mass Of long, white, thread-like tubes.
These grow all through the fy's body,
and gradually consume the flesh until the
fly dies. When, however, the plant has
nearly absorbed the flesh of one fly, the
ends Of the threads push through the
thinner portions of the wall of the body,
and, projecting from it, form the white
substance found on the dead fly If We
look at these projecting threads with a
compound microscope, we shall see that
the ends are swollen at one end to a
club shaped mass, forms on its tip a
minute ball. These tiny spheres, small
as particles Of dust, are the spores which
take the place Of the seeds of higher
plants. When these spores are ripe the
narrow neck just below them suddenly
snaps. Then the fluid inside squirts out
like the stream from rubber bulb when
1t IT squeezed, and shoots the spore one
or two inches away Some of these
spores form the white ring on the sur
faces near the fly; other spores float about
in the air, and fall upon the bodies of
other flies. sprouting rapidly, and become
a new mass of white threads like the
parent plant. These in turn consume the
body of another fly" st>.: -. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
KAISER AND. BARRISTER

Modern Society.
Kaiser Wilhelm entertained-as did many
another-a warm liking for the witty Leipzig
barrister, Herr Hagemann, who recently died.
He was. with all his talents. very simple
and straightforward man, though, naturally
proud Of his friendship with the emperor
When his majesty sent the good Saxon the
twenty-park piece Qost at cards) set in bril-
liants as a scarf pin, Herr Hagemann came
over to the Berlin schloss to express his
thanks The kaiser ithereupon invited him to
stay to dinner, which invitation was declined
with the words: "No. majestat; thatis impos-
sible. have got to get Back to- Leipzig to
vote" The kaiser was delighted at the origi-
nal answer, and invited him for two days
later. Another time. his majesty noticed that
Herr Hagemann took snuff out of a shabby
old box, and asking why he did so, learned it
had once been the property of a famous actor.
The kaiser-who is most generous to his
Observation-Disclosures presented the barrister
soon after with a beautiful gold snuffbox
with his monogram IN diamonds, and the gen
ial Saxon took snuff oftener than ever to, dis
play his Imperial friends gift. &s: EEls"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
MAIL BY WHEELBARROW
Nav York Sun.

New Ork sun.
= Four times daily for twenty-one years
summer and winter, in fair weather and foul,
Lucinda Annie Robertson has trundled
wheelbarrow bearing the United States mall
from the postoffice at Pleasantville. Iowa, 20
the railroad mile away. She took the job
when her husband, who had the contract OF
carry the mail, fell i'll, and because she
couldn't carry the load she introduced the
wheelbarrow.
When her husband became confirmed in
valid she kept the contract for him and
nursed him, too, and at his death the gov
eminent wouldn't take the job away from
her. 1t is worth just 500 year, and it
is almost all her living.
She is now Il, but she VOWS she'll carry
the mail till she dies
But some days. she says, ut seems as
though I could never drag myself and that
old barrow another STEP" 49,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
HOW NAPKINS DISAPPEAR

Everybody knows that woman is the rock
upon which the hotel proprietor's table linen
splits, whom it. runs against her, says the
New York Times. The table napkins in
hotel are used largely for 'washrags' by
women of nigh degree. Those who have the
management of the linen say so.
II don't know what 'Washrag' is SAID
a hotel man. II never found a man who did
but all womenfolks use EN- When we near
the end of our napkin supply we know that
we can recove: by making tour of the
rooms and gathering in the fragments. They
are found lying around with the toilet
things in little seueezed-up, wet punches.
1.-THE housellceper says they have been
used for 'washrags' They are used for all
sorts Of other things, too. The housekeeper
says she found fifteen tied to string in a
bunch, which woman who had just left
the house had used for a hustle. They be-
longed to hotels from St. Louis to New York.
She had been wearing about 81 worth OF
hustle" " " -.-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
. PROPOSED DIAL OF NJ. JEAN VEZY.

Make the dial dark Keep only the minute
hand and illuminate it brightly in white or
green. Illuminate narrow ring on the edge
of the dial. Show the last hour that has
struck by q red luminous dot placed against
the dial, on the outside, touching the hour
number, which is not visible but whose
place on the circle is sufficiently well known
to be appreciated without error at any dis
lance. .,s-. .-..
The dial will then look like the figure.
At distance the hour will be shown in the
way noted above. The minutes will be read
within about ~, owing to the fact that we
are SO we'll accustomed to the position Of the
figures on the dial. On drawing near, we
shall see, at present, the divisions of the
illuminated ring, which are made usual,
and can be read to within one minute. OBJ
servation will be facilitated by crossing the
illuminated ring with bars, also illuminated,
at right angles. This arrangement can be
applied to existing clocks, at least SO far as
it relates to the indication OF the hour
Translation made for the Literary Digest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
THEY FEAR CHRISTMAS

Tibet, the home of the strangest and least
known people on the face of the earth, is also
the home Of the strangest Of winter customs.
The feast Of Queen Winter in Tibet CORE
spends with our$own Christmas festival. ,"
The figure of this queen, %or goddess, is
painted blue and mounted on a camel, sur
rounded by a string Of human skulls. The
dance celebrated at this feast is called Tsam,
and the masked figures which take part in
them would be comic If they were not so hor-
rible One represents a horned bull, another
deer; but this deer, peculiarly enough, has
a horses head, an ancient symbol among the
Tibetans of the messenger Of death.
There are evil spirits in hordes, demons and
other bad spirits, to shock the ignorant people
into blind obedience to the Lamas. One god
curses another, and every town has its local
protecting divinity. There are serpent gods
representing the spirit of evil, but they are
fought by such protecting divinities as Garu-
da, who is always represented in Lamaism
vita stout body. human arms. wings. and
the head Of q bird. ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04

The New York Times draws an inter-
esting picture of how the newspaper
clippings bureaus corrupt many men: Men
who never knew whether their names
were in the papers or not before they sub
scribed for clippings become engrossed in
the collection of every newspaper refer
ence to themselves and often spend thou
sands of dollars in collecting and put
ting them in books. These clippings often
inspire political ambition and lead hfther-
to modest men to court publicity and the
reporter.
There is, however. another class CT men
with whom the clipping bureaus have to
deal. These are the old politicians, They
are wary birds. They know thing or two
about "the voice of the people, and even
about clipping bureaus They also have
their vanity under control But it is essen
tial to them to see every article printed
about them. They therefore make deal
with some bureau to supply them with clip
pings at wholesale rates, and prices have
been quoted as low cents for paragraph
and cents for complimentary editorial.
Even then they leave a loophole In the con-
tract, that they can stop the service at
moments notice, for too much prominence
is expensive.
This was illustrated in the case OF Lieu
tenant Hobson. He was foolish enough to
hire a clipping bureau to cut out and paste