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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
NEGRO WOMAN LEAPS
IN FRONT OF TRAIN

NEW YORK, Feb. n.-Mrs. Marcelin-
ma bravo, coIored, committed suicide
this morning by throwing herself in
front of an elevated train at Fifty-ninth
street and Ninth avenue. The body was
cut to pieces.
Henry G Brown who was on the sta
ton when the woman ieaped TO her
death, said the negress for quite while
walked up and down the platform
wringing her hands. When a train was
about thirty feet away she threw her
arms in the air and deliberately leaped
to the tracks. It was impossible to stop
the train and two cars passed over the
/ body.
| Traffic was delayed about twenty
minutes while a wrecking crew gathered
| together the dismembered body.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
Ia FOLLETTE'S BILL
ON RAILROAD RATES
Wisconsin Legislature Considering a
Drastic Measure to Control
Corporations.

MADISON. Wis, Feb. u.-Governor
La Follette's railroad control bill is now
before the Wisconsin Legislature
The committee charged with the draft
ing of Governor La Follette's famous
message into prospective law refused to
indorse the almost revolutionary clauses
demanded by the administration
This bill as it stands, however, is the
most sweeping railway neausre offered
to a legislative body in the United
States. 1t gives to the proposed railway
commission OF three members practically
absolute control of freight and passen-
ger tariffs.
Some of the powers of the commission
70 fix all rates, even without complaint
by a shipper; to classify freights; to
regulate switching charges; to regulate
furnishing of cars TO shippers; to TX
damages for shipments damaged in
transit; to require roads to furnish land
for warehouses at any point to require
the building of spur tracks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
SULTAN PLACES BAN
ON SERIAL STORIES
Turkish Ruler Stops Newspapers From
Publication of Continued Tales
Which May Contain Sedition-

CONsTANTINOPLE, Feb. u.-Sultan
Abdul Harnid has ordered all Turkish
newspapers to cease the publication of
continued stories, tales, anecdotes. etc
This order is due to the Sultan's belief
that the novels Of Tolstoy, GoTky, and
others caused the Russian disturbances
He apparently thinks that innocent
rornances, published in Turkish papers.
may contain some germs of revolution
as we'll
The editors of the newspapers are in
a bad way under this ban. They in
tend to draw up a petition for the re-
moval OF the order. If their petition is
unsuccessful many Will be compelled 10
suspend publication. as. owing to *ne
impossibiiity of publishing much news.
the papers are for the most part filed
with light literature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
The Jealous Girl.

\ jealous maiden may be reminded OF
her foolish passion by another picture
card of urchins. In the top lefthand
corner is a little newsboy disposing OF
one of his papers to a stylish lady. while
below is Mag looking on with green
eyes and saying: Look at me affianced
husband taIkin' wild anoder strange wo-
man. HuIIy gee. But it do make me
jealous.
Jointed Buster Browns tramps,
pickaninnies, sis Hopkins" and other
devices have been made into valentines.
Another form shows dainty little card
bearing the letters ''U. r. A.. and just
beneath them the small figure of a
lobster.
Hundreds of ideas have been worked
out in an effort TO make Valentine Day
of this year a memora bic one, and when
next Tuesday da WINS it will undoubtedly
bring joy and happiness, with wealth
of amusement to many good-naturec
Americans.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful It Is in
Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that charcoal
is the safest and most efficient disin-
fectant and purifier in nature, but few
realize its value when taken into the
human system for the same cleansing
purpose.
Charcoal is remedy that the more
YOU take OF it the better; 1T is not a drug
at ALL but simply absorbs the gases and
impurities always present in the stom-
ach and intestines and carries them out
of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking, after eating on
ions and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectuaIly clears and i'm
proves the complexion. it whitens the
teeth and further acts as a natural and
eminently safe cathaFtic.
II absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels; IL
disinfects the mouth and throat from
the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal In one form
or another. but probably the best char
coal and the most Tor the money Is III
Stuart's Charcoal Iozenges; they arc
composed of the finest powdered Willow
charcoal, and other harmless antiseptics
In tablet form, or rather in the form OF
large, pleasant tasting lozenges, the
charcoal being mixed with honey.
The dalIy use OF these iozenRes will
soon tell in q Tnuch-improYed condition
of the general health, better complexion!
SWeeter bfeaLnF anu puISI pt9Vu' anu
the beauty of it is that no possible harm
can result from their continued use, but
on the contrary, great benefit.
A Buffalo physician, iii speaking OF
the benefits OF char soai. says: Il ad-
wise Stuart's Charcoal LOlengeS to al
patients suffering from gas IN stomach
and bowels, and 10 clear the complexion
and purify the breath. mouth, ano
throat: / also believe the liver is greatly
benefited by the daily use OF them; lheS
cost but % cents box at drug stores
and although in some sense patent
preparation, yet / believe / get more
and better charcoal In Stuart s Charcoal
LoZenges than In any OF the ordinary
charcoal tablets. -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
PROFESSOR PEABODY
WILL 60 TO BERLIN
First Harvard Instructor to Be Chosen for the Proposed
Annual Exchange of Educators by Universities
of the World.

the economic side of these questions as
well as the ethical. Among the subjects
he Will discuss are labor unions charity,
drink problem, etc
Prof Peabody was selected from q list
of avaiia BILE professors sent to Berlin
by Harvard, and Harvard will soon re-
-ceive list from Berlin from which to
make her choice Prof. Peabody's term
VIII cover the first half of the next col
Iege year, beginning in September.
An Annual Exchange.
full Harvard and Berlin will exchange
one professor each year.
1t is also possible that an exchange
will be made each year with the Sor-
bonnie at Paris. where Prof Barrett
Wendell is delivering q series of lectures
this year under fund provided bs
James II. Hyde.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
Married Army Officers
Staggering Under Debts
General Corbin Supplements His Opposition
to Early Matrimony for Commissioned Sol
ders by illustrations of the Effect

family, was detained by the Illness of
a child and for a considerable period his
extraordinary expenses by this reason
amounted to over SIS per day.
Another case is that of Junior officer
whose tour of duty in the Philippines
was completed, but who elected to re-
main there because of the extra pay
which would enable him to reduce his
outstanding Indebtedness described as
the result of an improper appreciation
of responsibilities during the first years
of service
The depa rtrnent has decided to take
no action in the case of officers who are
making honest efforts to satisfy their
creditors
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Feb. n--Prof
Francis c. Peabody. dean Of the Har-
ward Divinity School, Plummer professor
of Christian morals, and board of the
college preachers, has been selected by
the University of Berlin to be Harvard g
first lecturer under the arrangement re-
Gently entered into between Harvard
and Berlin to exchange professors.
Prof. Peabody Will deliver a series of
lectures on 1.-THE Ethics of the Social
Questions similar to his college course
philosophy ., or Phil 3, as it is better
known.
Lecture Twenty Years Old.
Prof Peabody has given this course
for twenty years at Harvard, and dur
| ing that time has developed it to keep
pace with the times He will touch on
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11

General CoTbfn supplies the moral to
bis former disquisitions against mar
rage by junior officers of the army
without means Independent of their
Government salary by sending to the
War DepaI tment q number of COM
plants against officers serving in the
Philippines who seem to be unable to
pay their debts.
He writes that it was this result Of
injuoicious marriages which he had in
mind when he first made his recon-
mendations on the subject.
In his accompanying comments he
cites an instance of a captain, who,
while en- route to his post with his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
AS AUDIENCE APPLAUDS.
SONGSTRESS is DEAD
Found in Dressing Room by Husband,
Who Went to Urge Her to
Respond to Encore.

REDLANDS. Cal. Feb u.-Mrs. ]. P.
McEIroy. formerly a Philadelphia singer
and we11-known in Eastern cities, was
found dead in her dressing room at the
Wyatt Theater last night.
During a society function and Vaude-
vile performance of the Lodge of EIks
she rendered a song which received great
applause. She responded to an encore,
went to the dressing room, and failed to
answer a call for the next number.
Her husband went to her room and
found her dead of heart disease
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
F0URTEEN-0UNCE BABY
JUST A HANDFUL

JERSEY CITY, Feb IA diminutive
bit of humanity arrived in this city by
the stork route. The mother is Theresa
Selva, and the baby weighed at birth
exactly fourteen and a, half ounces.
So small and weak was it that the
parents thought it would die, and called
in a Catholic priest to christen it al
once The baby scarcely filled one Of
the priests hands. as he poured the holy
water over It
The child is perfectly formed. 1t will
be placed in an incubator
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
SCHOOLB0Y DIES AS
RESULT OF HRZlNC

LIMA, Ohio. Feb. n.-William Taylor,
a thirteen year-old schoolboy, died from
the effects of hazing by schoolmates.
He was buried in a snowdrift, after
ana ntities of snow had been thrust down
his back 1t is charged that this treat
Yrent brought on acute pneumontc.
He was the only son of prominent
citizen. who is demanding that the guilty
bows be punished.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
MATADOR BONBITh
QUITS THE BULL RING
SPANS Leading Fighter Permits His
Wife to Cut Of His Dis
tinctive Queue.

MADRID, Feb 11.-Bombita, the fore
most matador Of Spain, who has retired
from tho bull ring at the instance of a
wealthy father-in-law. was the guest
Of honor at banquet given by thirty
OF his colleagues.
After the banquet, Bombitas beauti-
full Andalusian wife, with all due cere-
mony, cut off her husbands colita, or
queue, the bulIhghter's professional
badge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
Post Gard Comics.

MANY valentines take The form OF posi-
cards. On these are reproduced some
of the little street urchins with ~flch
the public is familiar and to them -
co,rs7itad ali sorts of ridiculous excla-
nations.
one card shows little boy happily set
lied on a park bench. between two
.,eoiIg." Each of the latter is display
ine unnistakabie signs of affection
toward him. while the little fellow is
- Wonder what my fancee would say
# she saw me now In this compromlSln
Another post card shows a disappolnt,
ed s,Iitor in the lower corner and the glrl
| Of his choice marching proud1y az awa =
~. -,ir l1z, wav of showing her disdain.
The would-be loved one is flashing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
MAN FATALLY STABBED
BY A HIGHWkIMAN

MAHANOy CITY, Pa, Feb n--Lewis
H. Adams. seventy years old, was found
wounded in the neck and dying in
stable In an ante-mortem statement he
said he was stabbed at daybreak while
going TO work in a mine by a footpad
who demanded money
Adams did not know how he got to
the stable, which is block and q half
distant from where he was attacked. 4
blood-stained razor was found IN the
stable.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
CLERGY OF PROVIDENCE
TO CONSIDER GRAFT"

PROVIDENCE, Feb IA call for a
special meeting next Monday for the
purpose of considering the desirability
of united action on the part of the
clergy in political reform in Rhode
Island has been sent to Episcopal
Bishop w n. McVickar-
Alleged bribery ana corruption in poll
tics VIII be considered
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11

tremendous diamond and is standing
beside a stylish goat cart benoaning
his fate and saying: Me steed. me val.
uaolcs. and jewels at the disposa. OF
this "ci1 and she spurns me advances:
Comic valentines are gotten up III
heart-sha ned cards, ornamted by Out
cault, the originator of the Buster
Brown pictures One of them shows
q monkey, gaudily attired in feathered
hat and fancy shawl, saying to real
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
SET THE DAY TO WED
THIRTEEN DIFFERENT TIMES

GAINsBORO. wa. Feb. 1i.-After an
even dozen postponements of their we'd
ding. John Bageant, forty-two, and Miss
Velonia ]. Strother, forty, are married.
The Rev Thomas Cooper of the Metho-
dist parsonage offlciated.
Following the ceremony Bageant ex-
cused himself, and going out TO his
buggy brought III q bag of fine horse
corn. which he presented to the minister
as q fee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
PORTO RICO TO HANG WOMAN.

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. Feb u-Lusa
Neyares, twenty years old, has been
sentenced to be hanged on April 10 for
infanticide. This is the first instance
in which the death sentence has been
imposed upon woman in Porto Rico.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
IT LOOKS THAT WAY.

You don't believe. then, that public
office Is a public trust %
We'll, it's certainly Ike trust. Some
fellows seem to have a regular mOnop-
oily of t.''-PhiladeIphia Ledger.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
TRIPPED UP.

lie can't be very good barber"
ooh. yes he is. Why do you say that?'
well, I asked him If he cut his own
hair. and he said no, that he eouldn't
10 il well enough. ''-Phiiadelpha Ledger,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
VALENTINES ARE
FINER THAN EVER
This Is a Season of Numer-
Gus Novelties.
BETTER VERSE, MORE FUN
Post Cards, Comic and Sentimental
Valentines Are Most Attractive
This Year.
The rose is red,
The violet blue.
Sugar is sweet.
And are
BETTER VERSE, MORE FUN
The rose is red,
The violet blue.
Sugar is sweet.
And so are YOU.

II was the sweetest OF rhymes III the
oideE days, but time and custom have
done much to relegate the little verse to
the background in favor of more up-to-
date jingies and modern devices for tell
ing your sweetheart you have q feeling
for her.
Rarely has such a variety of valen-
tines been at the disposal OF youth. sem
timentally and otherwise inclined, as
marks the coming of this years feast.
Shop windows are Il blaze of color and
suggestion to the young man OF woman
in love. Who cannot find here (. We
hicle to iInpart sweet sentiments 10 his
dear, is. IN the vernacular, n slow one
Eyery Conceivable Design.
Valentines of this year arc Of eszei:;z=
conceivable design. Of course, the man
who desires to quietly and unosteIita-
tiously say II love you, will be doing
the right thing in sending . beautiful
cluster Of vioIets or q FIVE pound box OF
candy, appropriately garEished with
Valentine Day greetings
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
4 Pretty Notion


Another. rrct.ily decorated card bears
the words. DO l love you? Well, you
can bet Your boots IA pair of boots Is
painted instead of the world L do
Other rt-saaped cards bear tue III
viting query, Wont you be my anu
q lump Of sugar finishes the sentence
Many dainty and attractive valentines 's
gre To he had. Much regret has peeh
EXPRESSED mat the oid-tiIne lace Faien-
tine has gone out of fashion, Times was
when any girl who received lace vaieh-
tine knew that she was 1T just as
| Vol as if Ter sweetheart had whispered
| ii straight into her ear instead Of de-
! pending on the old-time custom TO ten
F, her. 49, +b,,,,,, :,
It always made girls hear hump thu n2
| fast and hard when she received one o.
! these-at least. that's what the girls
say-but the lace valentine is fast pass
! ing away Year after year secs FEWER
| of these happy little tokens OF anect1on:
i Much of the sharp edge OF sarcasm aiiu
! f,oT,x has been s.r1oothed off the comic
valentines this season by the conceptions
! cf some of the cleverest and, at the Same
/ time amusing things
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
Did the Man With the Camera

catch you? If he did there is money for
you. See tomorrows Sunday Times.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
VOICE Of SPIRIT
TELLS Of MURDER
Workmen Hear 1t in Motor
Station In London.
a PERSISTENT APPARITI0N
Declares Man Killed Sweetheart in the
House and Buried Her In
Basement.

LONDON. Feb. IA wierdly persis
tent nhantom voice telling of tale III
murder undiscovered is the latest De
velopment in ''spooks.
This is the simple, yet stirring, story
of the --apoarition'' which frequents the
headdiiarters OF motoring business IN
F-eatherstone buildings, Holborn,
Here there are several persons who for
= long time have been accustomed 10
experiment with "table-rappingt but
lately. whenever they have attempted 10
communicate with departed spirit, the
answer has invariably come from the
same source.
1T is most uncanny,' said William
Brown. THE table always raps out
the assertion that an old man was muir
dered here by his sweetheart twenty
nine years ago.
Buried Under House.
THE spirit voice adds that the victim
is buried urder the cellar of the house,
four feet from the surface.
..He saws that at the time of his muir
der he was carrying on his person Ger
tain valuable papers which would estao-
Ifsh his identity. He says that he was
n verv wicked old man, and L think ne
must have been
What will the P5Ycnical Research p %,
cietv do. and ". T. Stead. to whom the
subject ought to appeal seriously!
Like the Tower of London, Feather
stone buildings are nice and gloomy
already, so it will be interesting TO await
Developments, II any 49,, j..
The few friends who are addlcted 60
Misunderstanding are on the LOOKOUT IoT
a first-cIass medium to mend or end
this persistent old man of 1876
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
i, OF P. ALUMNI HOLD
THEIR ANNUAL BANQUET
Society in the District Gathers About
Festal Board and Renews
College Days.

Graduates of the University of Penn
sylvania resident In Washington in many
cases had a dark-brown taste in their
mouths on this cold, gray dawn of the
morning after.
The Alumni Society Of the District of
Columbia held its annual banquet last
night at Rauscher's, which accounts for
some of the queer spots on the sun to
day. and the peculiar 1argeness and
ughtness about some heads, which sug-
gests that unknown individuals have
been extracting all of the oxygen out of
the atmosphere.
President Edward Morrell was to have
acted as POSTMASTER, but he was un-
able to be present. so, to quote his own
words. J. Hubley Ashton ratified around
in his place. Vice Provost Edgar f
Smith and Prof. De Schweintz were the
guests of honor The vice provost In his
address told of the rise of the university
and praised Provost Charles G. Harri
son for his efforts in developing the in
stitution.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11

But this method is too simple and
lacking in embroidery to suit the de
monstratige For this latter happy-go-
lucky class the valentine maker has this
year outdone himself.
There are hearts of so many sizes and
description that surely the girl who can
not be satisfied with one in the lot is
hard to please. indeed. One of the most
attractive and quite appropriate. despite
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11

The lattice work can be opened IN sdte-
lil,e. fashion and insice is a dainty little
M ckage marked Chocolates.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
New Medical Laboratories.

Prof. De Schweinitz described the new
medical laboratories, instead of DR.. s.
Weir Mitchell who was unable 10 leave
the university. Others to speak were
DIR. Robert A. Marmion, L s. N, on
the topic, "a Pennsylvania Mans Elk
Ueriences in the Navy" Col. Cecil Clay,
"Reminiscences of War Times" DIR.
Milton ]. Rosenau Some Influences in
a Mans Life Not Dependent Upon a
University Training" Dr. Charles Fl.
lincoln, George Washington's Degree
from the University" DIR. A. L. Stavely.
Medical Men OF the District OF Column
bja. and II. E Barnes, THE Under
graduates.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11
Election of Officers.

At the business meeting preceding the
banquet the principal guests were elected
members of the organization, and the
following officers We're chosen:
President. J. HUXLEY Ashton; vice
presidents. DR. II @ Yarrow, Cecil Clay,
Charles w. Richardson, Arthur D
Weakley, John r. Mohler, Charles II.
Lincoln secretary and treasurer, James
G. Mckay; executive committee, Percy
Ash. DR. A. J.. Stavely, NJ. r. Rodgers,
and Morton G. Lloyd.
The banquet committee CONSISTED OF
Morton c. Lloyd, Arthur D. Weakley,
and Charles w Richardson
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-11

the protestations Of the girls is a heart
Of lattice work bearing the inscription
If maid You wish to win,
Just study UP your part;
Inside my lad, you'll find the Key
That opens up her heart
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-06-29
VITA H. F. WIchman 4 I o., Ltd

VT, November 2S 1866. He worked his
way through college graduating at
yarmouth College in 1889 He has been
"a newspaper writer in many capacities.
In 1894 he was appointed United States
Minister to Siam and secured the arbi-
tratiOn of the famous claim of Dr. NJ
A. Cheek, against Siam involving 3d.
100000. This was the first clear inter-
pretaion of the scope of foreign extra
territorial jurisdiction in Asia, and he
was specially thanked by the President.
He was appointed by President McKin-
ley delegate to the International
Conference of American Republics at
the City of Mexico in 1901. He was the
Commissioner General to Asia of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition and as
such passed through Honolulu in 1902
and remained here for two or three
weeks.
The same year he was offered the
post of United States Minister to Japan
but declined it, ana in July, 1908, was
appointed Minister to the Argentine
Republic. He remained at that post
until after the organization of the Re-
public of Panama when he was APP
pointed Minister to that Republic in
succession to w. 1. Buchanan. He now
goes to Colombia to succeed Minister
Russell, who goes to Venezuela to sue
coed Herbert Bowen, who has just been
dropped from the diplomatic service.