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The Washington times., 1902-01-05

Capt. Charles l.. Kelsey. I clerk in the
Judge Advocate Generals Office OF the
Navy Department. was found dead IA bed
yesterday morning at his room On the
third floor Of 1432 y Street northwest,
where he had been boarding for some
months past. Death came quietly, as he
apparently passed from his nights slum-
ber into the repose Of death without re-
gaining consciousness, and was due to
uraemic poisoning. according to the find
ines OF Acting Coroner Glazebrook.
A widow and six children, four Of whom
are grown survive him. Arrangements
for the funeral have not yet been COM
pleted. but it will take place from the
home of the widow, 1910 Fourteenth
Street northwest, Tuesday afternoon, and
the interment will be at Glenwood. The
deceased was a native of England, fifty
six years of age, and came to this coun-
try in 1858.
Last Seen in Good Health.
On Friday Captain Kelsey was at his
desk in the Navy Department until the
closing hour, when he returned to the
house where he had been boarding, which
is kept by Mrs. NJ. E. Grochon. Shortly
after 6 O'Clock he retired to his room.
after giving some slight direction to the
colored house girl, Lizzie Henderson.
Yesterday morning he failed TO come
down stairs at the usual hour, and when
Lizzie sought entrance to the room on
her morning cleaning tour she found the
door locked.
Mrs. Grochon was notified, and after
vain attempt to arouse her boarder she
mounted a table, and, looking through
the transom, saw the captain lying in bed
as though asleep. There was the pallor
of death upon his face, however, and
fearing for the worst, she broke in the
door and sent for DR.. c. H. Maroeny, of
1922 Rhode Island Avenue.
Had Been Dead Some Time.
A glance by the physician satisfied him
that death had occurred some hours be-
fore, as decomposition had already set
in. The police were notified and the
Acting Coroner was soon upon the scene
The body was afterward taken charge of
by Undertaken Gawler and removed to
the residence of Mrs. Kelsey, who had
been previously notified.
Captain and Mrs. Kelsey were a run
away couple from Leicester, England.
They came to this country in 1868, and
settled in Kansas, near st. George, lit
tie town IN the Union Pacific Railroad.
They remained there for about six ye:rs,
when the grasshoppers completely de-
stroyed their crops snd left them almost
without means.
They then removed to Washington,
where the captain had secured an ap-
pontment in the Navy Department. He
was an excellent clerk, and was highly
esteemed by his associates. Captain kel-
sey wa Fell connected in England, and
expecte4 to go back TO his old home in
the spring to settle an estate, which would
have furnished him with considerable
money.
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Education Among tic Arabs.

During my stay at MAXI / visited some
OF the schools. Of which there are five
here, and saw the children imbibing in
struction In the usual Moslem style. re-
peating aloud sentences OF the Koran or
rules OF grammar read out by the mollah.
They attend in the morning, and may be
seen at an early hour hurrying to school,
boTs and girls together, some with a
"n.infa." or wooden Koran stand, ON their
heads, some with a painted board or
camel shoulder blade. on which they learn
TO write. under their arm. The instruction
given is of a very elementary character
reading, writing, Arabic grammar, the Ko-
ran. and little arithmetic being the only
eubtects.-Geographica Journal.
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UNION VETERANS UNION.
Anniversary and Camp Fire ut RI
ncs ArmOry Tomorrow Night.

Logan Regiment No. ., Union Veterans
Union, will celebrate its fourteenth ann-
versary tomorrow evening at National
Rifles Armory, G Street. between Ninth
and Tenth Streets northwest. An unu-
sually attractive programme has been ar
ranged. Many prominent speakers have
accepted invitations to be present. The
entertainment Will conclude with an old
time camp fire of coffee, hard tack. pork
and beans. etc. All honorably discharged
Union soldiers are cordially invited.
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The ChnpInin's SeIf-COntrOI.

Winston Churchill tells an excellent
story of chaplain who quarreled with
the captain of a ship on the way to South
Africa because the captain refused to let
him hold services in the saloon. The cap
tain regarded himself as the priest OF
his own ship. Mr.. Churchill found the
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crease having been maintained from the
earliest development OF the industry Dur
ing the year 1880 the production of spell
ter was 25,233 short tons. while during the
last decade the production was again
more than double, reaching total of
l3l,5l6 short tons. during the year 1893
this including the production OF sheet
zinc.
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Movement. of Naval Vessels.

The cruiser Atlanta has arrived at
MonteVideo; the Philippine flagship Rain
bow at Tompkinsville. whence she Will
go to Norfolk TO coal preparatory to her
voyage to Cavite: the cruiser New Or
leans at Cavite, and the battleship Iowa
at Talcahuano. Chile. The flagship Brook
lyn admiral Remey) has sailed from
Nagasaki for Woosung China
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Wash B. Williams,
9TH and D N. w.

chaplain tramping the deck in anger
And what did you say to him?" asked
Mr.. Churchill, sympathetically, when h.
had heard the story. '.Oh. | said nothing
at ALL" answered the chaplain. with e
splendid show OF self-command, "but
may tell you that any other clergyman in
the Church Of England would have told
f'm to go to h-!'-Manchester Guard
Il n.
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OFFICIALS In
A FINE FEVER.
Collector Franks May Be
the Next to Go.
POWER OF CIVIL SERVICE RULES.
yioIators of Regulations Who Arc
Too Active in Field of Politics
Have Reason to TrembIe in Light
of President ROosevelt's Recent
Actions Toward the Offenders.

Internal revenue collectors, United
States marshals, and district attorneys
who during - ulst four years have been
active Be- r lies and who have been in
clneJ f ct he civil service rules
.nr l. l.s. are growing most ap-
rr f7u=fyr these days especially those
a-cials whom tho rt- Service Commits
r . has had occasion Investigate and
port -.aiist TO the head OF the Depart
ment under whom the offending officials
were serving.
Means business Now.
But the record shows that during Mr.
McKinleys administration these investi-
cations conducted by the Civil Service
Commission, together with its recon-
mendations, were never seriously ronsid-
cred.
Now. however, all is changed, as Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who is a great stickler
for the civil service rules. has caused it
to be known that he will not brook any
violation of the spirit and letter of the
civil service law.
The first evidence he gave was the ac-
ceptance of Collector Sapp's resignation,
the collector having been slated for re
moval because of charges preferred by
the Civil Service Commission.
Looping Them on.
The next in line was the called for res
ignation of Col. David A. Mum, the col
lector OF the Nashville tTenn.) district
This. it is understood, will be followed
by others.
The internal revenue collector who is
on tenterhooks and whose resignation may
be asked for at any time, is Mr.. f. r
Franks, of the Second Kentucky district.
The charges filed and now pending
against Collector Franks are TO the effect
that he has been too active in political
matters, having used his office il Is said.
to promote the candidacy of one Repub-
lican in contest for the Republican
nomination for Congress from the Second
Congressional district of his State. and
has shown a disposition TO disregard the
spirit and letter OF the civil service law
The charges OF political activity wero
preferred by Hon. George w Jolly, VINO
in letter to the Civil Service Commits
sion said:
Worked against Candidate.
'on the day before the Daviess county
convention he (Franks) corrailed about
l5o or 1I5 negroes in a hall at Owens
boro. They we're furnished with beer an
marched u2 the street with a band at the
head, carrying banner, w. T. Fowler.
the Administration Candidate and We're
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received by Franks at the courthouse

received by Franks at the courthouse
door.
In the convention there assembled. |
suppose, were in the neighborhood of coo
Republicans, all of whom. with the excep-
tion OF almost zoo were wearing
my badges. and voted for the election of
Mr.. Reno for chairman, and were in favor
OF instructing the delegates to the dis
trict convention 20 vote .or nv nomination
Notwithstanding this. Franks, Van Rensse-
laer, and about fifteen or twenty white
men, mostly ofiiceholders, undertook to
hold convention in the courtroom at the
time that the convention presided over by
Mr.. Reno was held, and Franks and his
crowd claimed TO have elected Van Iensse-
laer. the postmaster at Owensboro, chair
man. and appointed delegates to vote the
county fo' Fowler. They created great
deal OF confusion. but the regular con-
yention was held. and delegates selected
and instructed to cast the vote of the
county for myself.
franks and Van Rensselaer, with few
others. went to Henderson TO the district
convention and undertook to cast the
vote of Dayiess county for Fowler
Gross Partially.
wv. L. Hardigg. n deputy collector I'M
der Franks stationed at Uniontown. was
acting as chairman of the Union County
Committee and held snap convention
down there. and, although l am informed
by friends Of mine a majority of those
present were in favor of my nomina tion,
he counted it against me-
Nothing more indecent or outrageous
can be imagined than the conduct of f. T.
Franks before and at these county con-
ventions and at the district convention at
Henderson,
The letter containing the above
charges was forwarded to the Secretary
of the Treasury, but the Civil Service
Commission heard nothing from them
These charges are now to be brought to
the attention of President Roosevelt, and
it was said yesterday morning that unless
Collector Franks can clear himself he will
be called upon TO resign.
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CAPT. KELSEY
FOUND DEAD.
The End Came While He
Was Asleep in Bed.
WAS CLERK UNDER CAPT. LEMLY.

Highly Esteemed Officer Lad Been
in Navy Department for Quarter
of Century. and Nas Planning
Trip to England Next Spring for
the Settlement of Large Estate.
The Washington times., 1902-01-05

Six pieces heavy Table Padding,
fifty-four inches wide. The quality
we sell regularly for 40c yard. DC
Specially priced, yard.
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The situation Serious.
The situation in Ireland is undoubtedly
much more serious than can be Judged
from the reports in the British news
papers, and In good many districts ii
curiously resembles the state Of affairs
in the old days OF the Land League agita-
tion.
The United Irish League Is supreme
over wide areas, and the Kings writ
scarcely runs, but up to the present there
has been remarkable immunity from seri-
Gus crime, which is explained by tn anti
Nationalists as being due to the fact that
the people are terrorized by the lea que
Not Expected to Last
Most people who have studied the pres
ent phase Of the Irish situation believe
that this immunity will not be enioved
much longer. The letter of Major Mac
Bride to the MacBride Club. of Dublin
which was printed yesterday. is a fair
sample of the propaganda OF physical
force which is being actively agitated
throughout the island
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GOLDENBERG'S.
GOLDENBERG's.
Seventh and K Streets.
Extraordinary Bargains ALL OYER THE STORE

We've smashed price traditions right and maintained
lines sacred from underseng and have naturally
given confidence and patronage helped growth
that brother merchants may well marvel at.
There's extraordinary good to chronicle for the
weehe important chapters which printed be-
low. The combined offerings choice of features of
matchless Importance
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Special lot of extra large size lun-
cheon doileys, all pure linen, plain
white, also colored borders. QSC>
Worth $1.25 dozen. Special ..... W
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RUDYABD KIPLING'S NEW POEM
Continued from First Pags)
The Situation Serious.

ing are being suppressed in Ireland by
administrative order, and even without
that fOrmality
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Special Clearance Sale.

Monday will begin Special Cut Price Sale the entire
stock of Furniture and Carpets The stock large
of the and already low prices will
20 to % cent everything in the house. If in
thing in the Furntureor Carpet Line you to YOUR
advantage to look this stock and compare prices and
qualities. For
The Washington times., 1902-01-05

Ten pieces very fine Irish Satin
Damask, ~ inches wide. snowy white,
line of very dainty patterns to
choose from. Our regular S5c Coo
goods. Special, per yard ....... W
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Good
Linens
Reduced.

Extra Heavy Cream German table
Damask; two yards wide; every fibre
pure linen. All new patterns with
open borders. The cloth that gives
Special Observation-Disclosures. u
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Twenty different styles CT Gowns. of
cambric and muslin; trimmed with
best 1aces and embroideries; Umbrella
Skirts with three rows of lace insert
ing and wide lace on the bottom: dust
ruffles; Drawers with lace Inserting
and tucks; embroidery trimmed Also
latest styles in French Corset Cow
ers, handsomely trimmed with fine
laces ami wash ribbons; long HnC
Chimeses with deep yokes OF hut
lace and inserting. Sale price w
Children's Gingham Dresses. with
ruffies over shoulder, trimmed with
featherstitched braid. In neat fNC
stripes and checks. Sizes to US
4 years. Sale price. ~
Corset Covers, In low neck and
French styles, trimmed around neck
and sleeves with hemstitched ruffies;
lace trimmed Drawers with deep
hemstitched ruffles, yoke bands; Short
Skirts. with cambric ruffles; Chemise
with cambria ruffle around neck NPH
and sleeves; Children's Dresses nv
and Skirts. Sale price. 6O
Heavy Coutil Corsets. in straight
front styles: short and medium AAC
lengths. White, drab, and NHS
black. All sizes. Sale price.
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Ladies' Gowns. with yoke of 81 clus-
ter tucks, and cambric rufIie around
neck and sleeves. Two styles-high
and F-shape; extra long and vide
Also long and short Pet;ieoats. with
hemstitched ruffles. Drawers with 9
inch embroidery ruffies and tucks
above; yoke bands, and Chemise with
yoke of inserting and tucks French
styles in Corset Covers, with torchon
and Val. lace trimming. finished with
ribbons. Children's Gowns. in all
sizes, trimmed with embroidery and
inserting. and Children's hem nnc
stitched Skirts, with waist at Nt
tached. Sale price .. ~
Muslin Gowns. in eight styles-high,
V-shape and Empire styles; hand
somely trimmed with lace and en-
broidery; Skirts with deep umbrella
ruffie. trimmed with torchon lace and
inserting. and with deep embroidery
ruff1es; extra dust ruffie on bottom.
Drawers with lace and embroidery
ruflies: French Corset Covers;
long Skirt Chemise, with yoke Pnc
OF Hamburg inserting and HQ(
tucks. Sale price. W
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-11
Ninety-eight Per Cent.

There is fascination about big pro.
fits to business man. But the con-
servative and cautious trader prefers
to have the lesser per cent. of interest
and the larger per cent. of safety in
his Investments. There is no business
man who would not consider it a sound
proposition to invest in an enterprise
in which absolute loss was impossible
and which offered ninety eight chances
in hundred of rich profit. The
statistics of cures effected by DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
show that ninety eight per cent. of
cases of weak lungs can be absolute
ly cured. Almost if not all forms of
physical weakness may be traced to
starvation. Starvation saps the
strength. The body is just as much
Starved when the stomach cannot ex
tract nutrition from the food it re-
ceives as when there is no food.
Weak lungs bronchial affections,
obstinate coughs, call for nourishment.
Golden Medical Discovery" supplies
that nourishment in its most condens-
ed and assimilable form. 1t makes
weak lungs strong. by strenghthen-
ing the stomach aud organs of diges-
tion which digest and distribute the
food, and by increasing the supply of
pure blood.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-11
Outdoor Weddings in May and June.

1t is growing custom to celebrate
country weddings, in May and June,
out of doors. One of the prettiest of
weddings took place last May in an
orchard in full blossom. when Nature
seemed to have decked herself for a
bridal. Garlands of foliage suspended
tree from to tree marked off the aisle
those of white flowers indicating the
place where the bridal party was to
stand. For a country wedding the
invitations should give full informa-
ton about trains, and carriages or
carryalls be sent to convey the guests
to and from the station.
After an hour given to their friends
the bridal pair retire to dress for their
journey, and the formal guests with
draw. The bridegroom awaits the
bride at the foot of the staircase with
the family and intimate friends. At
her appearance she holds aloft her
bridal bouquet and then throws 1T
among the bridesmaids. The one to
catch it will be the next bride-sO say
the Fates March Ladies' Home
Journal.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-11
A Good One on Fitz Lee.

There is good story floating about
"NeWspaper kow" in Washington thi!
week on General Fitzhugh lee. II
was told by well, known Virgin1an to
a crowd of newspaper men few
nights ago, and finally reached the
floor of the House of Representatives
where Major Otey was seen doubled
up with laugh oyer it.
1t seems that out in the western part
of Virginia there lives an old Confed-
| crate veteran who was in General Fitz
Lees command during the war. He
and the General have always been the
greatest personal friends, and when
ever they met a long talk on "old
times" was sure to follow, full of rem
aninicenses of the days, when they
fought together for the Lost Cause. :"
A short time ago General Lee was out
in his old friends neighborhood and, as
usual, hunted him up. This was the
first time the two had seen each other
since the Spanish war.
Much to General Lee g surprise the
old man was very stiff in his greeting
to him. 'Why, what's the matter with
you2" asked the General.
"Nothin' the matter with me,n was
the reply.
why, you don't seem as cordial and
friendly as you used to be-. Out with
it; tell me what is wrong" urged Gen
eral Lee, noting that there was some
thing wrong and being anxious to find
the reason for it.
"Well," said the old man, there
amt nothin' wrong with me and
amt changed, neither, but since I've
seen you this time there's only one
thing | want to happen
What is that?" asked his former
leader, his curiosity now fully aroused.
Il want to die jest half an hour be-
fore you do, Gin1."
why on earth have you any such
desire as that?" asked General Lee,
utterly dumfounded by this time.
why, l want to die jest half an
hour before you do, Gin'l, so as can
be on hand to hear what JubaI Early
has to say when you drop into He'll
with a blue uniform on"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-11
Has Big Herd of BuffaIoes,

Roaming in absolute freedom in the
beautiful Flathead Valley, on the Flat
head Indian Reservation, Montana, is
the largest herd of buffaloes on the
continent. The noble animals have
practically all the freedom that was
theirs in the days when they were
monarch of the plains. This herd is
the property of half-bred of mixed
Indian and Mexican blood named
Pablo, whose home is on the reserva-
tion, and who is reported to be worth
s., 800. 900. He does not look it in his
suit of citizens clothes, broad -brim-
med hat and blanket. but he is as
shrewd ranchman as Is to be found
on the Western plains, and he has in
creased his Government allotment of
cattle and lands until he has amassed a
vast fortune. He has two houses, one
on the reservation and the other in.the
deary little shipping town of Selfish, on
the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Pablo owns 100, 200 head of cattle
and takes justifable pride in them,
but he especially glories in his herd of
buffaloes, which he numbers 1SO.
Pablo's regard for his buffaloes Is in
tense. He is not keeping them for
profit and will not sell single speci-
men. He loves them because they are
a part of the old free life he loved and
loves still. He has fellow feeling for
bison because, like his own race. they |
have been driven from their old ranges.
So he has gathered together all that he |
could get and has placed them on the |
range at the outlet of |
Fathead Lake.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-11
A Negro Conference For Betterment of
Race Conditions.

A movement is on foot for the or
ganlzation of an Augusta County Con
ference among the colored people, fol
the purpose bettering the condition oi
the race and for the adoption of an in
dustrIal policy intended to settle the
race problem and that will make a
more thrifty and better citizen of the
negro in the south. The movement is
beaded by Rev. G.. Wlthrow, pastor
OF the Augusta Street Methodist (col-
ored) in this city, who has just issued
the following circular to his people.
Being urged to take steps for the Or
ganizati0n of an Augusta County Con-
feredce. to be held shortly in the city
OF StauntOn, the purpose is herewith
submitted upon the same basis as the
Iuskeegee Fegro Conference, namely:
| ITO encourage the buying of land,
getting rid of the one-room cabin, and
the abuse of the mortgage system; the
talSlng of food supplies, building bet
rer school houses, the lengthening of
the school term and the securing of
good teachers and preachers; the doing
away with UNCONVENTIONAL prejudice,
the improvement of the moral cOndi
tlon Of the masses and the encourage
HaOho VI AAlCAuly IcldtlUuo UcGWecu tut
races.
2. Not to become discourage while
the race is passing from what was large
ly a political basis to an economical
one, as foundation for citizenship.
3. "Since the country school is the |
backbone cf the intelligence of the |
masses, that no effort be spared to in
crease It's efficiency.
A gsT |
observance of the law of the land.
5. TO urge upon our young people
,he Importance of becoming skilled
Vorkmen of every kind and to buy land
before it increases too high in price.
6. '"TO discuss the wisdom of hold
ng county fairs. local conferences and
institutes.
7. 10 Call the attention OF the wo.
nen to the wealth there is in the gar
en-, the COW. the pig and the poultry
ard.
s. ITO form some plan as to how
eachers and preachers may help the
If you are willing to do these things,
ign your name to the following blank |
nd return to me at once. If you have
friend or neighbor who is interested
! the race, do him the kindness to
low him this proposition and thus as.
st IN reaching hundred farmers and
usiness person of our race, so that we
lay organize about the 10Th of April.
c. 1. W1rHRow.